Bookeditors, Christopher Moriates, Vineet Arora, Neel Shah.
Contents:
The current state of healthcare costs and waste in the United States
Medical coverage in the United States
The challenges of understanding healthcare pricing
Defining value : connecting quality and safety to the costs of care
A changing landscape : cost consciousness and value in healthcare delivery
Ethics of cost conscious care
The importance of zip codes and genetic codes : variation in resource utilization
Stents, robots, and the role of technology diffusion
Primary care shortage crisis : lost opportunities to deliver value / David Margolius and Andrew Morris-Singer
Barriers to providing high-value care / Daisy Smith and Steven Weinberger
Building a pipeline for change : teaching about cost awareness and evidence-based medicine
The role of patients : shared decision making, e-patients, and consumer directed healthcare
High-value medication prescribing
Screening and prevention : balancing benefits with harms and costs
Shifting incentives : moving reimbursement from volume to value
Implementing value-based initiatives : a new challenge for clinicians and healthcare systems.