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Accountable Care Organizations: Your Guide to Strategy, Design, and Implementation, by Marc Bard and Mike Nugent
Are you ready to be an Accountable Care Organization (ACO)? Significant new opportunities and challenges face health systems, hospitals, and physician practices as they decide whether to participate in the new Medicare Shared Savings Program and join together to [...]
Understanding Pharma and Biotech: Best Books on Pharmaceutical Industry Issues
Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech Summary: Why has the biotechnology industry failed to perform up to expectations – despite all its promise? In Science Business, Gary P. Pisano, Ph.D. answers [...]
Medicare Prospective Payment System: Role in Changing U.S. Health Care System
When asked about health care innovations, especially practices directed at controlling costs, most policymakers and wonks point to private sector solutions, such as the cost-constraining effects of HMOs in the 1990′s or today’s ideation of [...]
Medicare: A Policy Primer by Marilyn Moon
Medicare is a study in contrasts. In its financing, the program is modeled as what health wonks call “social insurance,” which in reality is a euphemism for a politically effective but fiscally troubling mix of social [...]
Redefining Health Care: Using Competition to Improve Quality and Efficiency
The world’s leading guru of competitive strategy, Michael Porter, Ph.D., has turned his sights on explaining the fundamental cause of high costs, poor quality, consumer dissatisfaction, uneven access, and skyrocketing premiums in American health care. In [...]
Medical Errors and Medical Narcissism
Medical errors are rampant in American health care, particularly in physician and hospitals services. The human and economic costs are extraordinary. And because these mistakes are virtually 100 percent avoidable, so are the deaths, injuries, pain, [...]
The Business of Healthcare Innovation: Convergence of Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Genomics, Proteomics, Medical Device, and Information Technology Sectors
The market dynamics, business models, and corporate strategies of pharma, biotech, genomics, medical device development, and health care information technology are converging. And you better get ready. Written by business gurus at the Wharton School and [...]
Healthcare M&A: Lessons for Successful Mergers and Acquisitions
The health care sector is poised for more mergers and acquisitions, particularly in health plan and biotechnology segments. UnitedHealth Group’s deal PacifiCare is only the beginning of a hot M&A season the next couple years. Mergers [...]
Fascinating, Informative Look at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat is a thoughtful, balanced, and well-researched look inside controversial and troubled Food and Drug Administration. Author Fran Hawthorne is [...]
Will Wal-Mart Compete with Clinics or Hospitals?
In an excellent new piece for HealthLeaders, E. Preston Gee asks an fascinating question with wide ranging implications for health care: “What if the mass merchandising giants like Wal-Mart or Target got into the healthcare delivery [...]
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