Crosson / Tollen Partners in Health

How Physicians and Hospitals can be Accountable Together
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-62659-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Jossey-Bass Public Health/Health Services Text

Praise for Partners in Health
"The combination of visionary leadership, knowledge, and superbtiming makes this book a winner. Health care is evolving towardcollaboration and integration, and this book is essential readingfor anyone wishing to change the relationships between hospitalsand physicians." --Donald W. Fisher, PhD, president and CEO,the American Medical Group Association
"This book is a must-read for anyone committed to ahigh-performance health system. It spells out the practical stepsthat will move us toward an accessible, coordinated,patient-centered system of care. Its recommendations for paymentand regulatory reform underscore the urgency of comprehensivehealth reform if the current misaligned incentives are to bechanged to support those on the frontlines in providing the bestcare with prudent stewardship of resources." --Karen Davis,PhD, president, The Commonwealth Fund
"Closer physician-hospital integration would lead to higherquality care at lower cost. Partners in Health is a masterful guideto past integration efforts, current models of success, andthoughtful recommendations for future progress." --Victor R.Fuchs, PhD, Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor Emeritus, StanfordUniversity
"The working relationship of hospitals and physicians must berestructured for the United States to achieve more efficient,accountable care. But addressing our urgent challenges can't waitfor all hospitals and physicians to join highly structured systems.Thankfully, the authors offer steps that all the major stakeholderscan take today to spur new models and start the flywheel of trustspinning at new speeds." --Richard Umbdenstock, president andCEO of the American Hospital Association
"Transitioning U.S. health care from fragmentation tointegration, in the context of a more rational payment system, issure to be a long and tortuous journey. Partners in Health is akind of Fodor's Guide to the voyage. No one committed to healthreform should travel without it." --Susan Dentzer,editor-in-chief, Health Affairs

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crosson, Francis J.

Tollen, Laura A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Editors.
The Contributors.
1 Introduction and Vision (Francis J. Crosson and Laura A.Tollen).
2 History of Physician-Hospital Collaboration: Obstacles andOpportunities (Lawton R. Burns, Jeff C. Goldsmith and Ralph W.Muller).
3 Achieving the Vision: Structural Change (Stephen M. Shortell,Lawrence P. Casalino and Elliott S. Fisher).
4 Achieving the Vision: Payment Reform (Stuart Guterman andAnthony Shih).
5 Achieving the Vision: Operational Challenges and Improvement(Bruce Genovese).
6 Overcoming Barriers to Improved Collaboration and Alignment:Legal and Regulatory Issues (Robert F. Leibenluft and William M.Sage).
7 Overcoming Barriers to Improved Collaboration and Alignment:Governance Issues (Jeffrey Alexander, Gary Young and Commentary byJames DeNuccio).
8 Overcoming Barriers to Improved Collaboration and Alignment:Cultural Issues (Katherine A. Schneider).
9 Special Issues for Net Hospitals and Clinics (Benjamin K.Chu).
10 Special Issues for Academic Medical Centers (David Posch andCommentary Darrell G. Kirch)
11 What Needs to Happen Next? (Francis J. Crosson).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Francis J. Crosson, MD, is a senior fellow at the KaiserPermanente Institute for Health Policy and the chair of the Councilof Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), a policy developmentorganization of 34 of the nation's largest medical groups.
Laura A. Tollen, MPH, is a senior health policy leader at theKaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy.