商品簡介
Once denigrated for shoddy care and antiquated systems, the VA health system has become a hallmark of excellence and technical innovation. Best Care Anywhere uses the VA turnaround to illustrate deeper lessons for the U.S. health care system. In particular, it shows how fee-for-service healthcare leads to more expensive, less comprehensive, and less effective healthcare. Takeaway: efficient electronic medical records are the secret key to better health outcomes.
New to this edition is a particular focus on the trials and tribulations of "Obamacare," the Ryan proposal, and the fiscal crisis. It also includes new success stories of "exporting" the VA VistA system in West Virginia and Texas as well as completely updated statistics and research, including 2011 cancer studies by Harvard University that prove VA cancer patients outlive cancer patients in traditional healthcare.
作者簡介
Phillip Longman is the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at Washington Monthly Magazine. He was previously senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and is the author of numerous articles and books on health care, demographics, and public policy. Mr. Longman’s work has appeared in the Atlantic, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. He is a frequent public speaker, including addresses to the National War College, the Department of Health and Human Services, PopTech, and Fortune Magazine’s annual “Brainstorm” conference. He is also frequently interviewed by both foreign and domestic media, including National Public Radio and MSNBC. He has won numerous awards for his business and financial writing, including UCLA’s Gerald Loeb Award and the top prize for investigative journalism from Invest
