Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, Elizabeth Olmstead Teisberg, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg

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The U.S. health care system is working, but not for our benefit. That's just one of the disturbing conclusions of Redefining Health Care, a fresh look at an ailing system by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Virginia University professor Elizabeth Teisberg. With compelling details, they argue that our health care system is dominated by the wrong kinds of competition as health plans, networks, and hospitals fight to shift costs, accumulate bargaining power, and restrict services. This misplaced free market economy leaves patients in the lurch, unprotected and essentially unrepresented by health care providers.

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The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums-not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets.

In Redefining Health Care, internationally renowned strategy expert Michael Porter and innovation expert Elizabeth Teisberg reveal the underlying-and largely overlooked-causes of the problem, and provide a powerful prescription for change.

The authors argue that participants in the health care system have competed to shift costs, accumulate bargaining power, and restrict services, rather than create value for patients. This zero-sum competition takes place at the wrong level-among health plans, networks, and hospitals-rather than where it matters most, in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of specific health conditions. Redefining Health Care lays out a breakthrough framework for redefining health care competition based on patient value. With specific recommendations for hospitals, doctors, health plans, employers, and policy makers, this book shows how to move to a positive-sum competition that will unleash stunning improvements in quality and efficiency.

Economist.com

...a profound and powerful critique of America’s health-care system. It deserves to be read widely. And probably will be.

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