{"product_id":"transforming-healthcare-isbn-9781119902522","title":"Transforming Healthcare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA startlingly insightful discussion of the problems facing American health care providers and consumers and their solutions\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTransforming Health Care\u003c\/i\u003e, expert physician Dr. Morey Menacker explains how the United States can contain the world’s leading collection of superlative health care practitioners, technologies, treatments, research, education, and hospitals while simultaneously failing to provide care to many of its citizens. The author walks you through the past, present, and future of American health care, showing you how the United States got to its present state and offering practical solutions to improving access and affordability for millions of people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the book, you’ll find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eInsightful commentary about how to maintain the stellar quality of care found in the United States while expanding health care affordability and access\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscussions of how to reduce the cost and complexity of US health care\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplorations of the latest research and data as seen through the eyes of a physician who has spent their entire career working in the American medical system\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eA can’t-miss resource for US-based physicians and allied health care professionals, \u003ci\u003eTransforming Health Care\u003c\/i\u003e will also earn a place on the bookshelves of regulators, administrators, and lawmakers with an interest in the American health care establishment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Companion Website xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction XIII\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 How Did We Get Here? 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Bending the Cost Curve 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Goals in Transforming Healthcare 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Quality, Efficiency, Outcomes, and Access 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Overcoming Inertia 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Patient Accountability 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Changing Behaviors 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Moving the Needle 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 How Do We Pay for This? 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorey Menacker\u003c\/b\u003e currently serves as Regional Medical Director for Centerwell, a value-based primary care group in Orlando, Florida. Centerwell is a wholly owned subsidiary of Humana, focusing on comprehensive care of the senior population utilizing a risk based model. Prior to his move to Florida, he served as vice president of Hackensack Meridian Health, the largest integrated healthcare delivery system in New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr. Menacker helped lead \u003ci\u003eHackensack Meridian Health’s\u003c\/i\u003e population health strategy since joining the organization, serving as Director of Population Health at HUMC since 2013. He was Chair of Medicine at HUMC from 2015-16, prior to being recruited to network leadership. He served as the president and CEO of Hackensack Alliance ACO, from its inception in 2012 until 2019, when he moved to Florida. Under his leadership, Hackensack Alliance ACO has regularly been recognized as one of the top Medicare ACOs in the country. Dr. Menacker is also an accomplished author with many published articles in respected journals such as \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Accountable Care\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHealth Management, and the American Journal of Medicine.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Menacker has always had a passion for population health. He completed his residency in internal medicine at UMDNJ in Newark, New Jersey, where he later served as its Chief Medical Resident. He then went on to serve two years in the United States Public Health Service where he helped care for migrant farm workers before serving as the Director of Internal Medicine Residency Program, and Vice President of Medical Affairs, at Bergen Pines County Hospital in Paramus, New Jersey. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Menacker received his B.A in biology from LaSalle College in Philadelphia and his doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn insightful and eye-opening exploration of solutions to our current health care crisis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn today’s United States, health care for many people remains elusive, confusing, disjointed, and inadequate. It’s also prohibitively expensive for many people who are unable to afford necessary preventive care. And while the problems are widely known and studied, there is no consensus around what sorts of solutions will act as our pathway out of our health care quagmire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Transforming Healthcare, \u003c\/i\u003eveteran physician Dr. Morey Menacker delivers an incisive and thought-provoking analysis of the problems faced by the United States in the delivery of health care. Exploring how we got to this place and what we can do to get out of it, the author explains how the United States can simultaneously be a country that attracts the best health care technology, practitioners, treatments, research, and hospitals but still fails to provide adequate care to large swaths of its population. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders will find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Insights and commentary based on the author’s decades of experience working as a physician in the American medical establishment\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Discussions of how to maintain the high quality of care found in the United States while improving access and accessibility\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Explorations of how to reduce the costs and complexity of the US health care delivery system\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerfect for students and practitioners of health care in all its forms, \u003ci\u003eTransforming Healthcare\u003c\/i\u003e is also an indispensable resource for policy and lawmakers, health regulators, and administrators at all levels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990406480101,"sku":"NP9781119902522","price":79.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119902522.jpg?v=1761787702","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/transforming-healthcare-isbn-9781119902522","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}