Full Description
Health Care in the New Millennium is written by futurist Ian Morrison-author of The Second Curve and Future Tense and one of our nation's foremost health care analysts.In this provocative book, Morrison gives health care executives, doctors, and nurses a guided tour of what's in store for health care in the coming years and explains . . .
Why our one-trillion dollar health care industry has so many unhappy stakeholders
Why investor-owned health systems are failing
Why so few market-based reforms work
Why health care leaders need new visions of what is possible for the future
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Health Care Vision and Values 1
2 Health Care Leadership Challenges 15
3 New Millennium Drivers of Change 39
4 The Challenges of Change 53
5 The Road to Managed Care 71
6 The Global Context 89
7 Big Ugly Buyers 105
8 Consumers: We've Seen the Enemy and It's Helen Hunt 125
9 After the Backlash: Strategies for Survival of Managed Care 135
10 Health Care Providers: The Empire Strikes Back or Strikes Out? 163
11 Leadership and White Space: The Struggle for Strategy Innovation in Health Care 199
12 Health Care in the New Millennium: The Long Boom Meets the Civil Society 213
13 Five Key Leadership Steps 231
About the Author 245
Index 247
