The Trade Policy Review Mechanism, a permanent feature of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is designed to contribute to improving adherence by all WTO members to rules, disciplines, and commitments made under the Multilateral Trade Agreement. This volume in the series provides information on the trade policies, practices, and macroeconomic situations of the United States. Each Trade Policy Review is expertly prepared after in-depth analysis of an individual nation by the WTOs Trade Policy Review Board.

Winner of HIMSS 2011 Book of the Year Award! The HIMSS Book of the Year Award honors a book that offers outstanding practical guidance and/or strategic insight for healthcare information and management systems professionals. "The electronic exchange of health information is an essential capability that contributes to improved efficiency and patient outcomes in the healthcare delivery process. This book provides readers with the tools and resources needed to establish a successful, sustainable HIE and avoid many of the pitfalls that failed early initiatives. The authors use their own direct experience as HIE consultants, their interviews with HIE leaders and extensive research to offer a practical, step-by-step approach to forming an HIE. The book features case studies, examples, checklists, references, a high-level history and overview of HIE and a discussion of why HIE is so important. The book also describes in detail the essential steps to planning and forming a successful HIE. By providing the necessary tools and framework, the book serves to advance the successful development of HIEs and improve efficiency and outcomes in the healthcare delivery process. During a time of unprecedented change in the healthcare landscape, this guide is a timely and valuable resource for those seeking to leverage HIE to achieve quality gains and billions of dollars in saving under healthcare reform."

Continuing professional development (CPD) is critical for the health IT professional. Healthcare is fast-paced, dynamic, ever-changing, and global. It’s both exciting and exhausting. And it is rapidly evolving through innovation, Federal incentives, and technological advancements. For these reasons, health IT professionals must embrace lifelong learning to ensure they have the professional competencies to advance initiatives that positively impact patient care. This handbook will provide the rationale and the resources to do so and will serve as a reference to accompany one’s career success.

Essentials of Health Policy and Law, Fifth Edition provides students of public health, medicine, nursing, public policy, and health administration with an introduction to a broad range of seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, analytic frameworks for studying these complex issues, and an understanding of the ways in which health policies and laws are formulated, implemented, and applied. Thoroughly revised, the Fifth Edition explores the key health policy and legal changes brought about by the Biden Administration and the presently Democrat-controlled Congress. It also addresses the Covid-19 pandemic, and its many devastating and intertwined health, economic, and social consequences.

Aligned to the latest AHIMA Core Competencies, The Complete RHIT and RHIA Prep: A Guide for Your Certification Exam and Your Career provides a comprehensive review of the RHIT and RHIA Exam Competency Standards through RHIT Review Online Interactive Modules, online test prep, and an accompanying text that will help students prepare for the RHIT exam. The RHIT Review Online Interactive Modules are a set of online presentations that use voiceover to review essential topicd and provide practicum exercises and interactive decision making simulations to ensure student understanding. Additionally, each of these interactive modules offers a 10 question multiple choice domain topic test. Once students have completed all the interactive modules, they can test their knowledge by taking a final mock exam and/or access hundreds of multiple choice questions for practice and review. The accompanying text offers additional multiple-choice questions, reviews details about the exam and more.

Medicaid is the largest grant-in-aid program in the United States. Reform in this area, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to study the intersection between federal and state policy making in an area recently characterized by substantial uncertainty deriving from the lingering effects of the Great Recession, ongoing debate over the federal budget, and implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Invariably states reform the way health care is delivered, regulated, and financed within broader parameters established by federal statutes and regulations. It is critical therefore that effective strategies be put into place if both current and future health and long-term care reform efforts are to have their greatest chances at success. Rhode Island is the first state to receive permission to operate its entire Medicaid program under a global cap. As a consequence, it has entered the national consciousness as a key data point potentially supporting the block grant approach to Medicaid reform. In this book, Edward Alan Miller identifies factors that either facilitated or impeded the design and implementation of Rhode Island’s Global Consumer Choice Compact Medicaid Waiver in order to draw broader lessons for the Medicaid block grant debate and health and long-term care reform more generally. Evidence gathered from archival sources and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders exposes the role that provider capacity has played in the implementation process, including adult day care, assisted living, home maker, and other home- and community-based services. The impact of the Global Waiver on the nursing home sector is examined as well, in addition to new authority to obtain federal matching dollars for previously state-only funded programs. By providing a sophisticated understanding of factors enhancing or impeding state health reform, this book will contribute to improvements in the development and administration of policy development at both the state- and federal-levels.

Community Health Nursing: Caring for the Public’s Health, Third Edition focuses on teaching nursing students about population health and community health nursing