Using law, research, professional training, and multidisciplinary collaboration to optimize managed care

Managed health care has great potential for improving access to health care, improving quality of service, and moderating costs. Increased collaboration among health professions could ensure adequate human resources and expertise to meet service needs under universal health care. Collaboration is the only mechanism that enables the range of scientific and technological developments among the professions to be applied to health care needs. This article briefly illustrates the potential for revisions of law, application of research, professional collaboration, and focused training to maximize the effectiveness of managed care.