Using simple-to-understand language supplemented by insightful anecdotes and examples, the author cuts through the thicket of healthcare reform rhetoric to offer a step-by-step blueprint for achieving real improvements in healthcare delivery, as well as putting curbs on growing health care costs.
Using simple-to-understand language supplemented by insightful anecdotes and examples, the author cuts through the thicket of healthcare reform rhetoric to offer a step-by-step blueprint for achieving real improvements in healthcare delivery, as well as putting curbs on growing health care costs.
George Halvorson has been the chief executive officer of health plans, hospital systems, and care delivery systems in the United States for over three decades. He has also helped start health plans in Jamaica, Chile, Nigeria, Spain and Uganda.He is the current chair of the International Federation of Health Plans and he also served as chair of the Health Governors for the 2009 World Economic Conference in Davos, Switzerland.Kaiser Permanente, his current employer, is the largest not-for-profit health plan and care system in America - with over eight and a half million members, 160,000 employees and roughly forty billion dollars in annual revenue.He is the past chair of the American Association of Health Plans and has served on the Board of Directors for the American Diabetes Associations, The Alliance of Community Health Plans, and Safest in America.He also currently chairs the Alliance for Quality - and serves on the Commonwealth Commission for a High Performing Health System.He is a long time proponent of health care reform - regularly writing articles and books and making presentations advocating reform. Recent books include Epidemic of Care (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco) and Health Care Reform Now! (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco).Kaiser Permanente has been a pioneer in the use of electronic medical records and computer connectivity between patients and caregivers - successfully completing a four billion dollar project to computerize the medical information for its members and patients.He is a husband, father of five sons, and grandfather to five wonderful grandchildren. He is headquartered in Oakland, California.
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Health Care Won't Reform Itself. Why Are Health Care Costs Going Up? Set Goals and Improve Care. Connectors Are Magic. The Perfect System. We Need Universal Coverage Care System Reform and Care System Competition. Risk Sharing Works Quite Well Thank You. Focus Tools and Better Health. Health May Be the Highest Priority. We Also Need to Set Goals to Directly Reduce Costs.
Health Care Won't Reform Itself. Why Are Health Care Costs Going Up? Set Goals and Improve Care. Connectors Are Magic. The Perfect System. We Need Universal Coverage Care System Reform and Care System Competition. Risk Sharing Works Quite Well Thank You. Focus Tools and Better Health. Health May Be the Highest Priority. We Also Need to Set Goals to Directly Reduce Costs.
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