Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00KDO2VG4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Chris said This is a useful book to understanding how to improve the healthcare system. This is a useful book to understanding how to improve the healthcare system. Clayton Christensen who wrote the Forward labeled it a ‘bottom up’ view as opposed to the ‘top down’ view from the “The Innovator’s Prescription”. This feels accurate.The book is an easy read, a narrative in This is a useful book to understanding how to improve the healthcare system Chris This is a useful book to understanding how to improve the healthcare system. Clayton Christensen who wrote the Forward labeled it a ‘bottom up’ view as opposed to the ‘top down’ view from the “The Innovator’s Prescription”. This feels accurate.The book is an easy read, a narrative in 4 parts written in colloquial language with personal anecdotes. Below are the principal ideas. Apologies for license in choice of words, omissions, or misinterpretations.. parts written in colloquial language with personal anecdotes. Below are the principal ideas. Apologies for license in choice of words, omissions, or misinterpretations.. "The style is light and readable and the anecdotes interesting and have a good human quality" according to Deborah Sue. I'm a physician and a programmer who has 25 years experience building EHR software. I read it to see what Jonathan Bush's vision of health care and to gauge his role in developing Athena. This book is a common sense discussion of how health care has responded in a dysfunctional way to a dysfunctional environment. It is about the 8th book on the subject that I've read and have found nothing in this book very unique other than being the story of Bush's company's development and rise in the mark. A great read for anyone interested in business or healthcare. Having worked for Athenahealth in the past, I've spent a lot of time with Jonathan. He's an engaging speaker, tremendously energetic, and really is a health-care visionary -- if not the visionary of our time. That may seem like hyperbole, but if you read the book I can tell you it encapsulates about as much of Jonathan as you can without meeting him. He communicates his thoughts well through his storytelling and analytical thought process -- and all with the spice that only Jonathan could add
But there's another path. And now, with the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), it is called on to extend full benefits to tens of millions of newly insured. You might think that this would leave us with a bleak choice - either to devote more of our national budget to health care or to make do with less of it. Scrappy digital start-ups are equipping providers and patients with new apps and technologies to access medical data and take control of care. A bold new remedy for the sprawling and wasteful health care industry. Making informed choices about the care we receive and pay for will enable a more humane and satisfying health care system to emerge. Focused, profit-driven disrupters are chipping away at the dominance of hospitals by offering routine procedures at lower cost. In this provocative book, Jonathan Bush, cofounder and CEO of athenahealth, calls for a revolution in health care to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far low