Toward a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid Group Practice (Jossey-Bass Public Health) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119022479 ISBN 13: 9781119022473

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2004

Synopsis

Toward a 21st Century Health System is a collection of thoughtful analyses that explore a key element of the health care delivery system-physician group practices. Edited by policy experts Alain Enthoven and Laura Tollen, and written by a blue ribbon panel of health policy scholars and leaders including Stephen Shortell, Hal Luft, Donald Berwick, James Robinson, and Helen Darling, this resource addresses a variety of topics, including

• Organized delivery systems
• Quality of care in prepaid group practice versus other types of managed care
• The role of physician leadership and culture in group practice
• Prepaid group practice and the formation of national health policy

This comprehensive resource also covers such topics as pharmacy benefit management, technology assessment, health services research, and employer purchasing of benefits– all as they relate to prepaid group practice.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Toward a 21st Century Health System

Toward a 21st Century Health System's contributors include

George Avery, M.P.H., University of Minnesota School of Public Health and University of Minnesota-Duluth Department of Psychology
Robert A. Berenson, M.D., F.A.C.P., The Urban Institute
Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., Institute for Healthcare Improvement
William H. Campbell, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Pharmacy
Jon B. Christianson, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
Kenneth H. Chuang, M.D., San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Francis J. Crosson, M.D., The Permanente Federation
Helen Darling, M.A., National Business Group on Health
R. Adams Dudley, M.D., M.B.A., U.C. San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies
David M. Eddy, M.D., Ph.D.
Alain C. Enthoven, Ph.D., Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
Raymond Fink, Ph.D., Medical and Health Research Association of New York City
Merwyn (Mitch) R. Greenlick, Ph.D., Oregon Health and Science University Medical School
George C. Halvorson, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals
Richard E. Johnson, Ph.D., R.Ph., Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest
Sharon L. Levine, M.D., The Permanente Medical Group Harold S. Luft, U.C. San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies
Sachin H. Jain, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
James C. Robinson, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, School of Public Health
Julie Schmittdiel, M.A., U.C. Berkeley, School of Public Health
Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, School of Public Health
Jon A. Stewart, The Permanente Federation
Laura A. Tollen, M.P.H., Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
Allan J. Weiland, M.D., Northwest Permanente, P.C.
Jonathan P. Weiner, Dr.P.H., Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Praise for Toward a 21st Century Health System

After three decades of trying to reform health care by looking for a "silver bullet," I found the "future" has been here for more than a century. Policymakers tired of banging heads and gavels on stone walls need look no further than this well-designed analysis of prepaid group practice for the incentives necessary to enhance health system quality, safety, and performance, expand access and equity, and vastly improve the professional-patient relationship.
—Hon. David Durenberger, U.S. Senator (1978-1995), Senior Health Policy Fellow, University of St. Thomas

If you wonder why the American health system is judged by distinguished experts as "the poster boy of underachievement," read this collection of fine essays by longtime students of that system. The book is a particularly valuable read for students of medicine, health administration, and health policy. Here they will learn how much better value might be wrung out of the health system for the truly ample resources Americans grant it.
—Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison professor of Political Economy, Princeton University

From the Inside Flap:

"Organized systems are essential to ensure quality improvement and reduce errors in health care.... Everyone who is affected by health care should read this book to understand that real-world examples of effective systems do exist and offer promise to meet the challenge of 21st century medicine. We need the ideas and examples presented so vividly here."
—Christine K. Cassel, M.D., president and CEO, American Board of Internal Medicine and ABIM Foundation

Toward a 21st Century Health System offers students of American health care an important perspective on the value of prepaid group practice as a cost-efficient, high-quality alternative to the more common network-based model of managed care¾the target of the so-called managed care backlash of the late 1990s.

Toward a 21st Century Health System is a collection of thoughtful analyses that explore a key element of the health care delivery system—physician group practices. Edited by policy experts Alain Enthoven and Laura Tollen, and written by a blue ribbon panel of health policy scholars and leaders including Stephen Shortell, Hal Luft, Donald Berwick, James Robinson, and Helen Darling, this resource addresses a variety of topics, including 

• Organized delivery systems
• Quality of care in prepaid group practice versus other types of managed care
• The role of physician leadership and culture in group practice
• Prepaid group practice and the formation of national health policy

This comprehensive resource also covers such topics as pharmacy benefit management, technology assessment, health services research, and employer purchasing of benefits? all as they relate to prepaid group practice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1119022479
• ISBN 13: 9781119022473
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340
• Editor: Enthoven Alain C., Tollen Laura A.