Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–January 3, 2013. The Affordable Care Act gives the department of Health and Human Services the authority to implement an important provision designed to improve patient care and reduce health care costs, according to a new Center for American Progress article published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Authored by CAP Senior Fellow Ezekiel Emanuel and health policy expert Emily Oshima Lee, the journal article details an approach known as “shared decision making”—a collaborative process between patients and their physicians—and provides recommendations to kick start the implementation of this strategy to improve patient care.
