The Changing Health Care Marketplace
The Changing Health Care Marketplace

Author: Walter A. Zelman

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 1996-05-31

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13:

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Explores the Rise of Managed Care An incisive and informative analysis of our rapidly changing health care system--the best of current books on the subject. --Arnold S. Relman, former editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine Walter A. Zelman, a leading expert on health care research and policy, examines the key trAnds that are changing today's health care marketplace. He looks at the growth of managed care; the new and sometimes uneasy partnerships among physicians, hospitals, and health plans; and the trAnd toward integration between sectors. This important resource draws on the latest data and research, including more than fifty interviews with expert analysts and practitioners.

Medical Innovation in the Changing Healthcare Marketplace
Medical Innovation in the Changing Healthcare Marketplace

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2002-06-06

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 0309084164

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A wave of new health care innovation and growing demand for health care, coupled with uncertain productivity improvements, could severely challenge efforts to control future health care costs. A committee of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine organized a conference to examine key health care trends and their impact on medical innovation. The conference addressed the following question: In an environment of renewed concern about rising health care costs, where can public policy stimulate or remove disincentives to the development, adoption and diffusion of high-value innovation in diagnostics, therapeutics, and devices?

Health-Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination
Health-Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2018-04-02

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 030946921X

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The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This report analyzes health care utilizations as they relate to impairment severity and SSA's definition of disability. Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination identifies types of utilizations that might be good proxies for "listing-level" severity; that is, what represents an impairment, or combination of impairments, that are severe enough to prevent a person from doing any gainful activity, regardless of age, education, or work experience.

Forces of Change
Forces of Change

Author: David A. Shore

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-06-20

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1118237005

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American health care has made great strides in the past hundred years. Life expectancy has increased dramatically and advances in medicine and treatments have eradicated many life-threatening diseases. However, in today's health care arena there is divergence between our health needs, the structure of our health care system, and how health care is delivered and funded. In Forces of Change, David A. Shore has collected the leading thinking from experts in the field on how our health care system can benefit from important lessons from other industries and effect transformational change that truly serves all stakeholders well. Contributors include Max Caldwell of Towers Watson; Michael J. Dowling of North Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Health System; John P. Glaser of Siemens Healthcare; Ashish K. Jha of the Harvard School of Public Health; Eric D. Kupferberg of Northeastern University; Lucian Leape of the Harvard School of Public Health; Jeff Margolis of the TriZetto Group, Inc.; and David Shoultz of Philips Electronics.

Strategies for the New Health Care Marketplace
Strategies for the New Health Care Marketplace

Author: Dean C. Coddington

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 2001-02-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780787955939

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Learn to can better meet the needs of the new consumer-driven marketplace. Strategies for the New Health Care Marketplace--written by a team of acclaimed experts--examines the factors changing today's health care system: the growth in demand for services, the increasing influence of consumers on how services are provided, and the dramatic new advances in treatment made possible by technology.

Health Care Reform Now!
Health Care Reform Now!

Author: George C. Halvorson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-12-10

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780787998394

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The United States spends more money on health care by far than anyother country and yet nearly 50,000,000 Americans are uninsured atleast part of the time each year. Health Care Reform Now! is written for anyone who caresenough about our health care situation to consider seriousalternatives to the current system. In this book George Halvorson—an internationally knownhealth care leader and author—offers a sensible approach tohealth care reform and universal coverage that can work for allstakeholders. Step by step, George Halvorson outlines a game plan for a trulyworld-class health care system that will appeal to policy makers onboth ends of the political spectrum and will deliver health carewith improved quality, better access, provider accountability,performance transparency, consumer choice, and individualempowerment.