Thomas Lee: ACOs – reducing cost and improving outcomes

Nuffield Trust via vimeo: Thomas Lee, Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard School of Public Health, outlines the key ambitions of the Affordable Care Act, considering what these changes mean for hospitals and health professionals. He goes on to describe how hospitals in the US are coping with the objective of reducing costs and improving patient outcomes while boosting success and driving innovation. Thomas Lee contributed to The Commonwealth Fund and Nuffield Trust 13th international meeting on the quality of health care in July 2012. Visit the Nuffield Trust website for further details about our work in this area: nuffieldtrust.org.uk