Understanding Value Based Healthcare

Provide outstanding patient care while navigating the complexities of healthcare reform with this comprehensive, engagingly written guide Read what your colleagues are saying about Understanding Value-Based Healthcare: ""The book is a masterful primer for all clinicians--especially those of us hoping to navigate the transition from volume-based healthcare to value-based healthcare without running aground."" Atul Gawande, MD, MPH. Surgeon, Professor, and author of "Being Mortal and The Checklist Manifesto" ""This book is an instant classic. It masterfully summarizes and makes accessible a mountain of relevant health care delivery research. And it gives front-line clinicians and other health care leaders a raft of practical ideas to help make care dramatically safer, more patient-focused, and more affordable."" Donald Berwick, MD President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement ""What is value? Why is it so hard to achieve in healthcare, when it is the standard in most other industries? How can we overcome the obstacles and achieve a value-based system? With dozens of real-life stories of encounters with our broken health system, this book offers valuable insights into these questions and more. It is a must-read for everyone from student to frontline clinician to system leader who wants to contribute to the successful transformation to value-based care."" Vivian Lee, PhD, MD, MBA CEO, University of Utah Healthcare "Understanding Value-Based Healthcare" is a succinct, interestingly written primer on the core issues involved in maximizing the efficacy and outcomes of medical care when cost is a factor in the decision-making process. Written by internationally recognized experts on cost- and value-based healthcare, this timely book delivers practical and clinically focused guidance on one of the most debated topics in medicine and medicine administration today. "Understanding Value-Based Healthcare" is divided into three sections: Section 1 Introduction to Value in Healthcare lays the ground

Christopher Moriates Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, Director of Implementation Initiatives, Costs of Care, Inc. Vineet Arora Associate Professor and Director of GME Clinical Learning Environment Innovation, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Director of Education Initiatives, Costs of Care, Inc. Neel Shah Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Founder and Executive Director, Costs of Care, Inc.