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Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-based Competition on Results
Michael E. Porter
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Description for Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-based Competition on Results
Hardback. Reveals the underlying causes of problems in Health Care systems. This book argues that participants in the health care system have competed to shift costs, accumulate bargaining power, and restrict services rather than create value for patients. It lays out a framework for redefining health care and shows how to move to a value-based competition. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: KJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 44. Weight in Grams: 964.
The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums--not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets. In Redefining Health Care, internationally renowned strategy expert Michael Porter and innovation expert Elizabeth Teisberg reveal the underlying--and largely overlooked--causes of the problem, and provide a powerful prescription for change. The authors argue that competition currently takes place at the wrong level--among health plans, networks, and hospitals--rather than where it matters most, in the diagnosis, treatment, and ... Read more
The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums--not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets. In Redefining Health Care, internationally renowned strategy expert Michael Porter and innovation expert Elizabeth Teisberg reveal the underlying--and largely overlooked--causes of the problem, and provide a powerful prescription for change. The authors argue that competition currently takes place at the wrong level--among health plans, networks, and hospitals--rather than where it matters most, in the diagnosis, treatment, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press United States
Number of pages
506
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781591397786
SKU
V9781591397786
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About Michael E. Porter
Michael E. Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School and the author of sixteen books and numerous articles on competition and strategy. Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg is an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business and author of over fifty articles and cases on strategy and innovation.
Reviews for Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-based Competition on Results
"...a profound and powerful critique of America's health-care system. It deserves to be read widely. And probably will be." —Economist.com