The lack of good information on providers' performance is an impediment to improving the affordability and quality of health care.

The ability to make cost-effective exploratory efforts is a powerful enabler of innovation. Unfortunately, drug development is far less conducive to this sort of exploration.

If we are to improve health care, we need effective ways to measure how health care providers deliver care. Speakers at this conference will assess how existing physician performance measurement tools operate and how we can improve their accuracy, reliability, transparency, and usefulness. For example, both the Government Accountability Office...

As co-authors of Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America,we strongly recommend that the Affordable Care Act of 2010 should be repealed and replaced as soon as possible.

Life is full of surprises for specialists in population studies because the predictive powers of demography and population science are somewhat limited.

The future of medicine lies in DNA chips, supercomputers, and new drugs, not embryo research, tissue transplants, or stem cells.