Health Care Reboot: Megatrends Energizing American Medicine

by Michael J. Dowling, Charles Kenney

Overview

Health Care Reboot - Megatrends Energizing American Medicine -
injects a much-needed dose of optimism into the national health care debate.
The book makes a compelling case that a series of powerful trends are leading the nation’s health care system toward greater quality, safety, access, and affordability. The trends include historic breakthroughs in treatments for heart disease and cancer; integration of behavioral health services into primary care; recognizing and acting upon the broad effect of social determinants of health; consumer empowerment focused on measures and outcomes that matter most to patients; paying for value rather than volume causing doctors and hospitals to shift to a newly aggressive proactive approach to caring for patients. Collectively, these trends are rebooting our health care system to better serve the needs of providers, payers, and, most importantly,
patients.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781946633491
Publisher:	Advantage Media Group, Inc.
Publication date:	11/23/2018
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

MICHAEL J. DOWLING is president and chief executive officer of Northwell Health, New York’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 23 hospitals, more than 665 outpatient locations, $11 billion in annual revenue and 66,000+ employees. One of health care’s most-influential executives, Mr. Dowling has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and his selection as the Grand Marshall of the 2017 St. Patrick’s Day Parade in NYC. He also holds degrees from the Queen’s University Belfast, University College Dublin, and Fordham University. Mr. Dowling currently serves as chair of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Prior to joining Northwell in 1995, he served in New York State government for 12 years as Deputy Secretary for Governor Mario Cuomo, and also served as Director of Health and Human Services. Earlier, he was a professor of social policy and an assistant dean of the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services. He started his career as a caseworker in the New York City schools.

CHARLES KENNEY is executive editor of the Northwell Series on Health Care Innovation. He is the author of many books including The Best Practice: How the New Quality Movement Is Transforming Medicine (PublicAffairs 2008), which the New York Times described as “the first large-scale history of the quality movement.’’ He is the author of Transforming Health Care: Virginia Mason Medical Center’s Pursuit of the Perfect Patient Experience (CRC Press 2010), for which he was awarded the 2012 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. He serves on the faculty of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Reboot: American Health Care Ascendant 1

Chapter 2 Payment Reform: Bringing Sanity to a Wild-West Marketplace 21

Chapter 3 Medical Advances: Miracles of Science 47

Chapter 4 Social Determinants: The Power of Zip Code as Well as Genetic Code 77

Chapter 5 Technology: The Age of Smart Medicine 95

Chapter 6 Behavioral Health: Caring for Mind and Body 111

Chapter 7 Consumerism: Measures that Actually Matter to Patients! 131

Chapter 8 Consolidation: Merger Mania 153

Chapter 9 Lifelong Learning: New Ways to Educate the Workforce 169

Chapter 10 Unmistakable Progress: The Power of the Health Care Quality Movement 183

Acknowledgments 193

Bibliography 201

Index 215