Remaking Health Care in America The Evolution of Organized Delivery Systems [Hardcover]

Stephen Shortell, one the country's leading health care management authorities, and his team of experts use the most current data available to update their classic book Remaking Health Care in America. This expanded second edition includes a clear conceptual framework for health care leaders who must develop more integrative systems of care to meet the challenge of the evolving health care industry. The book also provides practical suggestions and myriad recommendations for developing cost-effective delivery systems across the United States.Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: The Problem and the Challenge; Chapter Two: An Idealized Health Care System; Chapter Three: Participants, Framework, and Approach; Chapter Four: Functional Integration; Chapter Five: Physician-System Integration; Chapter Six: Clinical Integration; Chapter Seven: Managing and Governing the Organized Delivery System; Chapter Eight: Moving Forward: The Policy Issues and Implementation: Challenges: Resources; References Remaking Health Care is so rich in strategic analysis, so detailed in its case studies, and so logical in organizing barriers and critical success factors that it cannot help but enlighten every health system leader in America. (Health System Leader)STEPHEN M. SHORTELL is Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and professor of organization behavior, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. ROBIN R. GILLIES is research specialist in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. DAVID A. ANDERSON is a founding principal of Health Care Futures L.P. in Itasca, Illinois. KAREN MORGAN ERICKSON is a principal with Hamilton HMC, the health services division of the international management consulting firm Kurt Salmon Associates. JOHN B. MITCHELL is a founding principal of Health Care Futures L.P. in Itasca, Illinois.Based on a study of eleven health care systems and their response to managed care and cost col£Ý