How to Get What We Pay For: A Handbook for Healthcare Revolutionaries - Doctors, Nurses, Healthcare Leaders, Inventors, Investors, Employers, Insurers, Governments, Consumers, You
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (619 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0983995338 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 340 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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We now have the tools. Along the way, we can each get better healthcare for less for ourselves and our families.Joe Flower's remarkable new handbook How To Get What We Pay For shows how--complete with checklists and pages of resources. It challenges all our usual ways of thinking about healthcare, and especially the assumption that we personally cannot do anything about it. We can fix healthcare now. We can rebuild the system to give us better, cheaper care for everyone. This is the moment, while healthcare is already changing rapidly.Who is "we"? Everyone who affects the system, from doctors and nurses to healthcare leaders, health plans, employers, and consumers--you. A veteran healthcare insider, industry analyst and futurist, and author of thousands of articles and the groundbreaking 2012 book Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right for Half the Cost, Flower presents an in-depth, easy-to-read breakdown of the current system and the seven "levers" that are changing it:ShoppingTransparencyResultsPreventionTargetingTrustTechAs confusing as today's healthcare seems, there is hope. This guide puts the tools in your hands to make better,
Grady Harp said ‘Healthcare is broken. U.S. healthcare costs us twice as much as in any other developed country’. Author Joe Flower is a healthcare speaker, writer, and consultant, having explored the future of healthcare nationally and internationally, with clients ranging from the World Health Organization, the Global Business Network, and the U.K. National Health Service, to the majority of state hospital associations in the U.S. as well as many of the provincial associations and ministries in Canada, and an extraordinary variety of oth. "Redefine reasonable and customary!" according to Kate Wilson. How to Get What We Pay For: A Handbook for Healthcare Revolutionaries by Joe Flower is a wonderful straightforward read. Joe Flower shares with the readers the steps to take to get the best results in today's healthcare system. Joe Flowers is a healthcare speaker, consultant, and writer. Joe Flower knows the ins and outs of the healthcare system and addresses the healthcare cost issues that everyone faces.Joe Flowers addresses . Helpful information for EVERYONE to change the healthcare system This book is a fantastic resource for everyone! Like the title says, this book clearly outlines the issues facing the healthcare industry and illustrates what we can do to revolutionize this industry. What I appreciated most about this book was the how well-organized the issues and solutions facing our current healthcare system are, and how the author laid out what everyone (medical professionals, employers, insurance companies
Joe Flower is a veteran health care futurist and analyst who has long forecast the enormous changes in our health care system and projected a strong, positive vision for where we are headed and how to get there, practically.On the board of the Center for Health Design, he is a contributing editor for TheHealthcareBlog and regularly appears as a keynote speaker and thought leader at conferences throughout the United States, as well as internationally.Flower is also on the speaking faculty of the American Hospital Association, a regular columnist for its Hospitals & Health Networks Daily and Trustee Magazine, and the author of hundreds of articles, as well as Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right for Half the Cost, which was named by Strategy+Business Magazine as the best health-care business book of 2012.Find out more at: ImagineWhatIf
About the AuthorJoe Flower is a veteran health care futurist and analyst who has long forecast the enormous changes in our health care system and projected a strong, positive vision for where we are headed and how to get there, practically.On the board of the Center for Health Design, he is a contributing editor for TheHealthcareBlog and regularly appears as a keynote speaker and thought leader at conferences throughout the United States, as well as internationally.Flower is also on the speaking faculty of the American Hospital Association, a regular columnist for its Hospitals & Health Networks Daily and Trustee Magazine, and the author of hundreds of articles, as well as Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right for Half the Cost, which was named by Strategy+Business Magazine as the best health-care business book of 2012.Find out more at: ImagineWhatIf