How can America's healthcare system be transformed to provide consistently
higher-quality and lower-cost care? Nothing else in healthcare matters more.
Prescription for the Future identifies some standout medical organizations that
have achieved higher-quality, more patient-focused, and lower-cost care, and
from their examples distills twelve transformational practices that could
transform the entire healthcare sector.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel looks at individual physician practices and organizations who
are already successfully driving change, and the specific practices they have
instituted. They are not the titans everyone seems to know and assume to be the
best; instead, Emanuel has chosen a select group--from small physician offices
to large multi-specialty group practices, accountable care organizations,