Understanding Value Based Healthcare

Understanding Value Based Healthcare

<p><b>Provide outstanding healthcare while keeping within budget with this comprehensive, engagingly written guide</b></p> <p><i>Understanding Value-Based Healthcare</i> 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.</p> <p><i>Understanding Value-Based Healthcare</i> is divided into three sections:</p> <ul> <li><b>Section 1 Introduction to Value in Healthcare</b> lays the groundwork for understanding this complex topic. Coverage includes the current state of healthcare costs and waste in the USA, the challenges of understanding healthcare pricing, ethics of cost-conscious care, and more.</li> <li><b>Section 2 Causes of Waste</b> covers important issues such as variation in resource utilization, the role of technology diffusion, lost opportunities to deliver value, and barriers to providing high-value care.</li> <li><b>Section 3 Solutions and Tools</b> discusses teaching cost awareness and evidence-based medicine, the role of patients, high-value medication prescribing, screening and prevention, incentives, and implementing value-based initiatives.</li> </ul> <p>The authors include valuable case studies within each chapter to demonstrate how the material relates to real-world situations faced by clinicians on a daily basis.</p><br />.