The Healthcare Cure ─ How Sharing Information Can Make the System Work Better

Author Margolis founded the company that is the largest supplier of information technology to the US healthcare insurance industry; he is now the executive chairman of a firm that develops ways to apply social media technology to healthcare. He is also a healthcare consumer with a serious chronic illness. Here, he puts his insider business and patient perspectives to work as he explains the healthcare supply chain in plain language for general readers. He presents his vision of integrated healthcare management, which relies on information technology to lower costs and to improve how the various parts of the healthcare system work together. The author claims that an integrated healthcare management system can be implemented and maintained regardless of which political party is in power and what laws are in effect. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jeff Margolis is the founding CEO and chairman emeritus of the TriZetto Group, Inc., the largest supplier of information technology to the US healthcare insurance industry. He is the executive chairman of WellTok, Inc., a pioneer in the application of social media technology to healthcare. Over a twenty-five-year career dedicated to improving the US healthcare system, Margolis has earned broad recognition as a futurist and an advocate for the innovative application of information technology to solve complex challenges in all areas of the healthcare industry. A frequent guest lecturer for healthcare programs at major universities in the United States as well as at healthcare conferences, he also serves on the national board for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, the Board of Directors of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, and the Advisory Board of the University of California at Irvine’s Center for Healthcare Management and Policy.