ConsumerDriven Health Care by Regina E Herzlinger
Professor Herzlinger documents how the consumer-driven health care movement is being implemented and its impact on insurers, providers, new intermediaries, and governments. With additional contributions by health care's leading strategists, innovators, regulators and scholars, Consumer-Driven Health Care presents a compelling vision of a health care system built to satisfy the people it serves. This comprehensive resource includes the most important thinking on the topic and compelling case studies of consumer-driven health care (CDHC) in action, here and abroad, including new consumer-driven intermediaries for information and support; types of insurance plans; focused factories for delivering health care; personalized drugs and devices; and government roles.
Professor Herzlinger provides a compelling argument forconsumer-driven health careThe health care system has been markedfor decades with rising costs and consumer dissatisfaction.Professor Herzlinger challenges the reader to look beyond solutionsthat are based on what consumers should want to solutions that giveconsumers what they want. --Barbara Bigelow, Ph.D., co-editor, Health Care ManagementReview, professor of management, Clark University GraduateSchool of Management Regina Herzlinger has a formidable reputation as an expert onreforming health care. There are lessons here for all of us whocare about reforming our health systems to make them better. --David Willets, MP, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretaryand member of Parliament , UK. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to know why theAmerican model of health insurance benefits that has been aroundfor about 50 years is all washed up, and what is most likely toreplace it. --Roger Feldman, Blue Cross Professor of Health Insurance,University of Minnesota No other author in the health field could write a book likeConsumer-Driven Health Care, or make the kind of impact that ReginaHerzlinger can make on America's $1.5 trillion health careindustry. As one of the health field's most respectedeconomists and business strategists, Professor Herzlinger canpersuade corporate CEOs, Washington policymakers, benefitsadministrators, and hospital executives to reshape their strategybased on a market run by consumers. Remarkably, for an academic,she can write. This book translates health economics into simpleEnglish, reducing the mystery-inside-a-conundrumfield into everyday transactions like selecting a health plan thatany health care consumer can recognize. Consumer-Driven HealthCare will be a top candidate for health care's 'book ofthe year.' --Russell C. Coile, Jr., consultant, editor, RussCoile's Health Trends, and author, Competing OnExcellence
Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780787952587 |
| ISBN 10 | 0787952583 |
| Title | ConsumerDriven Health Care |
| Author | Regina E Herzlinger |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons Inc |
| Year published | 2004-03-16 |
| Number of pages | 928 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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