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13%OFFMichael E. Porter - Redefining German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System - 9783642108259 - V9783642108259
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Redefining German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System

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Description for Redefining German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System Hardcover. Lays out an action agenda to move Germany to a high value system that include: care must be reorganized around patients and their medical conditions, providers must compete around the outcomes they achieve, health plans must take an active role in improving subscriber health, and payment must shift to models that reward excellent providers. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 636.
The German health care system is on a collision course with budget realities. Costs are high and rising, and quality problems are becoming ever more apparent. Decades of reforms have produced little change to these troubling trends. Why has Germany failed to solve these cost and quality problems? The reason is that Germany has not set value for patients as the overarching goal, defined as the patient health outcomes achieved per euro expended. This book lays out an action agenda to move Germany to a high value system: care must be ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
328
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642108259
SKU
V9783642108259
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About Michael E. Porter
Michael E. Porter is a leading authority on competitive strategy and the competitiveness of countries, regions, and cities, and the application of strategic principles to societal problems. Based at Harvard Business School, his ideas and personal leadership have influenced countless governments, companies, and scholars across the globe. Professor Porter's thinking on strategy is taught in virtually every business school ... Read more

Reviews for Redefining German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System
We must thank the authors of Redefining German Health Care for changing the language of the current health care debate. Their book makes a passionate argument for moving the health care discussion beyond cost control, health insurance premiums and risk pooling. It is health outcomes that matter to patients, not insurance premiums per se. Prof. ... Read more

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