Innovation-Driven Health Care: 34 Key Concepts for Transformation

A timely, comprehensive resource featuring compelling information on innovative trends in the healthcare industry.

Divided into six sections:

• small practice innovations
• large group practice innovations
• hospital/physician relationship innovations
• employer/health plan innovations
• cost restraints/reform innovations
• consumer-driven innovations

Loaded with examples.

Contains case studies written by leaders in the healthcare industry.

Part One Small-Practice Innovations

Chapter 1 American Health Care Innovates
Chapter 2 The Search for New Careers and New Primary Care Business Models
Chapter 3 New Practice Paradigm for Preventing Vascular Deaths
Chapter 4 The KISS Trifecta, from Complexity to Simplicity
Chapter 5 Physician Office Dispensing Stages Comeback
Chapter 6 Innovative New Practices Are Managing Costs, Time, Convenience, and Disease
Chapter 7 Stopping the Bleeding in the Clinical Trenches
Chapter 8 Total Knee Replacement: An Innovator’s Dream

Part Two Large-Group Practice Innovation

Chapter 9 Kaiser Permanente’s Archimedes Model
Chapter 10 The Mayo Clinic Innovates the Mayo Way: Leaving Nothing to Chance

Part Three Hospital-Physician Joint Venture Innovations

Chapter 11 From Hospitals to Physician: Integrated Facilities
Chapter 12 Making Rooms for Boomers
Chapter 13 New Partners for Building and Financing Big MACCs
Chapter 14 From Independent Specialty Practice to Hospital Employment

Part Four Employer and Health Plan Innovations

Chapter 15 From High Tech to High Tech/High Touch
Chapter 16 Pfizer Innovates
Chapter 17 Restless and Rebellious Employers
Chapter 18 Understanding Complexity, Consulting, and Clinical Boundaries
Chapter 19 Employers’ Push to Release Medicare Claims Data
Chapter 20 Health Plans and Banks Move to Ally with Doctors
Chapter 21 Pay for Performance—A Seemingly Inevitable Trend

Part Five Constraining Costs and Expanding Markets

Chapter 22 Imaging: The Blessing of Technology, The Curse of Cost
Chapter 23 Flattening Supply-Chain Costs
Chapter 24 Skinning the Universal Coverage Cat the Massachusetts Way

Part Six Consumer Innovations

Chapter 25 Health Savings Accounts: Wall Street, Health Plan Websites, and Preventive Services
Chapter 26 Alternative and Complementary Medicine Enter the Mainstream
Chapter 27 Managing Customer Relationships
Chapter 28 Meeting Demands for Knowing Hospital Costs Upfront
Chapter 29 Quest for Personal Health Records
Chapter 30 Navigating Uncharted Health Care Consumer Waters
Chapter 31 Health Care Retail Outlets
Chapter 32 Self-Care, Self-Service, and Self-Empowering Consumer Care
Chapter 33 Malpractice Innovations
Chapter 34 An Innovator’s Personal Experience and Vision

• "Most physicians are not soothsayers and seldom do we have the opportunity to predict the future.  As physicians we rely heavily on feedback to make our decisions about the future.  We look at what we have done in the past and use that information to help us decide future events in our practice. But, Dr. Richard Reece has been able to provide physicians with a new concept or 'feedforward' -- he has given physicians advice on the future and how to take the information and advice he foresees and give us suggestions for making decisions on the future of our medical practices. There is no better book or resource to use to understand the future of medicine than Innovation-Driven Health Care. Dr. Reece truly understands the synergy between past and the future.  No practice can be successful unless there is harmony between both of these aspects of a medical practice.  All who read this book will have a greater understanding of their medical future.  They will be able to foretell what the potential potholes are for the future and suggestions for how to avoid these bumps in the road.  Ultimately they will gain solid advice on how to make their practice thrive and prosper.  If there were two books that I would recommend for any physician in clinical practice, it would be Innovation-Driven Health Care and I would read it twice!"

  --Dr. Neil Baum
  Clinical Associate Professor of Urology
  Tulane Medical School, New Orleans, LA
  

  
  
  “Richard Reece has given us the literary equivalent of an industry Rosetta stone—well written and thoughtfully composed—for deciphering the infinitely complex world of contemporary healthcare.  This is a must-read for anyone serious about the field’s future and the industry’s eventual state.”

  --Preston Gee
  Senior Managing Director
  Phase 2 Consulting, Austin, TX
   

   

• Foreword