Potent Medicine - The Collaborative Cure for Healthcare (Book)
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In his debut book, On the Mend, Dr. John Toussaint introduced readers to the efforts of ThedaCare, a five-hospital system in northeastern Wisconsin, in redesigning healthcare delivery through lean transformation building a culture of continuous improvement. But delivery is only one side of the game.
Potent Medicine, the compelling follow-up to On the Mend, offers practical advice and insights from Wisconsin’s collaborative efforts to transform healthcare and deliver better patient value. It focuses on three core elements:
1.Delivery of care designed around the patient: Meaningful care delivery is organized around the needs of the patient, not the convenience of insurance companies or doctors.
2.Transparency of treatment quality and cost: To build a true picture of any healthcare system, we must identify accurate data regarding quality and cost, and publish it in a way that people understand.
3.Payment for outcomes: Right now we pay for procedures, and we do it more than any other industrialized nation. What we really want to pay for is health.
Potent Medicine, the compelling follow-up to On the Mend, offers practical advice and insights from Wisconsin’s collaborative efforts to transform healthcare and deliver better patient value. It focuses on three core elements:
1.Delivery of care designed around the patient: Meaningful care delivery is organized around the needs of the patient, not the convenience of insurance companies or doctors.
2.Transparency of treatment quality and cost: To build a true picture of any healthcare system, we must identify accurate data regarding quality and cost, and publish it in a way that people understand.
3.Payment for outcomes: Right now we pay for procedures, and we do it more than any other industrialized nation. What we really want to pay for is health.
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Dr. Toussaint continues the tradition of honest, practical storytelling that he began in On the Mend, and uses it to explain the deep challenges, stumbling blocks and unexpected triumphs on the road toward a healthcare industry that delivers better quality at much lower cost. Potent Medicine is a call to action, for leaders across the nation to join ongoing experiments, learn from them, adjust, and do it all over again. This is a dynamic process, and Potent Medicine outlines how to stay engaged and involved as the healthcare story unfolds.
- Hardcover: 173 pages
- Publisher: ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value; 1st edition (April 16, 2012)
- Language: English
