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Chaos and organization in health care /

Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care. One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Thomas H.
Other Authors: Mongan, James J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Medical care > United States.
Health care reform > United States.
Health facilities > United States > Administration.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Organizational behavior.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780262259033
0262259036
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The problem is chaos. Chaos
  • Progress
  • Fragmentation
  • The solution is organization. What does organization in health care look like?
  • What kinds of systems improve health care?
  • Tightly structured health care delivery organizations
  • Organizing the mainstream of U.S. medicine
  • What can payers, employers, and patients do?
  • How do we get there? Evolution or revolution?
  • Provider change
  • Payment change
  • Market change
  • Accelerating evolution.

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