Understanding Value Based Healthcare

Synopsis

The Current State Of Healthcare Costs And Waste In The United States -- Medical Coverage In The United States -- The Challenges Of Understanding Healthcare Pricing -- Defining Value : Connecting Quality And Safety To The Costs Of Care -- A Changing Landscape : Cost Consciousness And Value In Healthcare Delivery -- Ethics Of Cost Conscious Care -- The Importance Of Zip Codes And Genetic Codes : Variation In Resource Utilization -- Stents, Robots, And The Role Of Technology Diffusion -- Primary Care Shortage Crisis : Lost Opportunities To Deliver Value / David Margolius And Andrew Morris-singer -- Barriers To Providing High-value Care / Daisy Smith And Steven Weinberger -- Building A Pipeline For Change : Teaching About Cost Awareness And Evidence-based Medicine -- The Role Of Patients : Shared Decision Making, E-patients, And Consumer Directed Healthcare -- High-value Medication Prescribing -- Screening And Prevention : Balancing Benefits With Harms And Costs -- Shifting Incentives : Moving Reimbursement From Volume To Value -- Implementing Value-based Initiatives : A New Challenge For Clinicians And Healthcare Systems. Editors, Christopher Moriates, Md, Assistant Clinical Professor Of Medicine, University Of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, Director Of Implementation Initiatives, Costs Of Care, Inc., Vineet Arora, Md, Mapp, Associate Professor And Director Of Gme Clinical Learning Environment Innovation, University Of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Director Of Education Initiatives, Costs Of Care, Inc., Neel Shah, Md, Mpp, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Founder And Executive Director, Costs Of Care, Inc. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.