Tom Miller's remarks on the election's impact on health care at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians.

How can more accurate and actionable information about physicians improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care?

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

While it may be harmful and disingenuous to insist upon a single algorithm or best approach to practicing medicine, it could be helpful to at least provide clear guidance so that physicians would know to avoid certain therapeutic approaches.

Researchers and clinicians seeking to strengthen these relationships with industry deserve to be celebrated, not demonized.

By next year, about two-thirds of American physicians will be working as salaried employees of large groups and hospitals. This movement has been underway for years. Over the last decade, the number of independent physicians was falling by about 2% a year. But these trends are now accelerating.