Does the U.S. healthcare system need a do not resuscitate order? If you watch TV, surf the Web, ask your neighbor or even your doctor you might think our healthcare system is among the worst in the world. Jeff Margolis, a nationally recognized healthcare and systems expert, thinks otherwise. As Founder and Chairman of The TriZetto Group, Inc., a healthcare information technology company that helps link benefits to care for more than 100 million Americans today, as a former healthcare executive with responsibility for overseeing information technology at health plans, hospitals, physician practices and pharmacies and as a healthcare consumer living with a severe chronic illness Jeff offers a unique look at the U.S. healthcare system as a system. Drawing on examples from many industries and using language that is accessible to the typical healthcare consumer, those working in the healthcare industry and healthcare policymakers, Jeff describes his vision for Integrated Healthcare Management an approach that combines systematically designed information technology and processes to drive new types of behaviors that can cure the ailing U.S. healthcare system. The Information Cure is practical because it builds upon our healthcare model today and describes specific steps to create the system of tomorrow affordably and sustainably. Jeff explains how health plans, health professionals, and consumers will all need to participate actively in the solution. If they do, the U.S. healthcare system will truly be on the brink of success.
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Although healthcare reform is one of the most complex and difficult challenges we face as a country, The Information Cure offers a new perspective on how to address this critical issue. Jeff understands the problem, and his Integrated Healthcare Management model could improve the administration of our system to allow better access, cost and quality for every American. --Senator Tom Daschle
The last time healthcare reform was on the national agenda, the objective for many in the industry was how to maintain the status quo. Today the same stakeholders are meeting with President Obama looking for ways to modernize the U.S. healthcare system. This should give us all pause for optimism. Fortunately, with The Information Cure Jeff Margolis has also given us a new way of thinking and a road map that we did not have in the early 1990s - Integrated Healthcare Management. I highly recommend this book to everyone who is impacted by the healthcare industry - which means every one of us. --David A. Shore, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Director, Forces of Change Program, Harvard School of Public Health
This easily digestible call to action gives value-based solutions to the seemingly insurmountable health system challenges we as individuals face every day. A must-read for those interested in comprehensive health reform. --William H. Frist, M.D., Former Majority Leader, U.S. Senate
This easily digestible call to action gives value-based solutions to the seemingly insurmountable health system challenges we as individuals face every day. A must-read for those interested in comprehensive health reform. --William H. Frist, M.D., Former Majority Leader, U.S. Senate
The last time healthcare reform was on the national agenda, the objective for many in the industry was how to maintain the status quo. Today the same stakeholders are meeting with President Obama looking for ways to modernize the U.S. healthcare system. This should give us all pause for optimism. Fortunately, with The Information Cure Jeff Margolis has also given us a new way of thinking and a road map that we did not have in the early 1990s - Integrated Healthcare Management. I highly recommend this book to everyone who is impacted by the healthcare industry - which means every one of us. --David A. Shore, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Director, Forces of Change Program, Harvard School of Public Health
This easily digestible call to action gives value-based solutions to the seemingly insurmountable health system challenges we as individuals face every day. A must-read for those interested in comprehensive health reform. --William H. Frist, M.D., Former Majority Leader, U.S. Senate
The last time healthcare reform was on the national agenda, the objective for many in the industry was how to maintain the status quo. Today the same stakeholders are meeting with President Obama looking for ways to modernize the U.S. healthcare system. This should give us all pause for optimism. Fortunately, with The Information Cure Jeff Margolis has also given us a new way of thinking and a road map that we did not have in the early 1990s - Integrated Healthcare Management. I highly recommend this book to everyone who is impacted by the healthcare industry - which means every one of us. --David A. Shore, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Director, Forces of Change Program, Harvard School of Public Health
The last time healthcare reform was on the national agenda, the objective for many in the industry was how to maintain the status quo. Today the same stakeholders are meeting with President Obama looking for ways to modernize the U.S. healthcare system. This should give us all pause for optimism. Fortunately, with The Information Cure Jeff Margolis has also given us a new way of thinking and a road map that we did not have in the early 1990s - Integrated Healthcare Management. I highly recommend this book to everyone who is impacted by the healthcare industry - which means every one of us. --David A. Shore, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Director, Forces of Change Program, Harvard School of Public Health
This easily digestible call to action gives value-based solutions to the seemingly insurmountable health system challenges we as individuals face every day. A must-read for those interested in comprehensive health reform. --William H. Frist, M.D., Former Majority Leader, U.S. Senate
This easily digestible call to action gives value-based solutions to the seemingly insurmountable health system challenges we as individuals face every day. A must-read for those interested in comprehensive health reform. --William H. Frist, M.D., Former Majority Leader, U.S. Senate
The last time healthcare reform was on the national agenda, the objective for many in the industry was how to maintain the status quo. Today the same stakeholders are meeting with President Obama looking for ways to modernize the U.S. healthcare system. This should give us all pause for optimism. Fortunately, with The Information Cure Jeff Margolis has also given us a new way of thinking and a road map that we did not have in the early 1990s - Integrated Healthcare Management. I highly recommend this book to everyone who is impacted by the healthcare industry - which means every one of us. --David A. Shore, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Director, Forces of Change Program, Harvard School of Public Health
This easily digestible call to action gives value-based solutions to the seemingly insurmountable health system challenges we as individuals face every day. A must-read for those interested in comprehensive health reform. --William H. Frist, M.D., Former Majority Leader, U.S. Senate
The last time healthcare reform was on the national agenda, the objective for many in the industry was how to maintain the status quo. Today the same stakeholders are meeting with President Obama looking for ways to modernize the U.S. healthcare system. This should give us all pause for optimism. Fortunately, with The Information Cure Jeff Margolis has also given us a new way of thinking and a road map that we did not have in the early 1990s - Integrated Healthcare Management. I highly recommend this book to everyone who is impacted by the healthcare industry - which means every one of us. --David A. Shore, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Director, Forces of Change Program, Harvard School of Public Health
About the Author
Jeff Margolis is the Founder and Chairman of The TriZetto Group, Inc., the largest supplier of information technology to the U.S. healthcare insurance industry. Over a 25-year career dedicated to improving the U.S. healthcare system, Jeff has earned broad recognition as a futurist and advocate for the innovative application of information technology to all areas of the healthcare industry. A frequent guest lecturer to healthcare programs at major universities in the United States as well as at industry conferences, Jeff also serves on the National Board for the Crohn s and Colitis Foundation of America, the Board of Directors of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, and the Advisory Board of the University of California at Irvine s Center for Healthcare Management & Policy. He lives in Corona Del Mar, California, with his wife Debbie and their two daughters.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A great introduction to how U.S. healthcare should evolve,
This review is from: The Information Cure - Solving the Healthcare Crisis Systematically through Integrated Healthcare Management (Hardcover)
Jeff Margolis takes a logical, step-by-step approach to how U.S. health care is organized, what ails it (as he says, it was never engineered in the first place, so no wonder most attempts to re-engineer it go nowhere), and how to fix it. I like the fact that he focuses on where we are today and builds from there. Yes, it's an almost impossibly complex and hugely expensive system, but he shows how following evidence-based medical protocols, incenting consumers to behave in healthier ways, reimbursing doctors based on results (rather than number of tests run or visits logged) and creating a culture of health where everyone is aligned can make a huge positive difference. There's a great chapter on electronic records and also some tough medicine: we need to start thinking about and saving for health care the same way we do college and retirement. If you don't think institutions like Medicare will ever fail, think about all the people who just lost their fortunes thanks to investing in GM bonds.
All in all, a terrific book with some nice illustrations that shows us how our experience of health care could be much improved in only five years' time.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Information Cure - Solving the Healthcare Crisis Systematically through Integrated Healthcare Management (Hardcover)
Amazon recommended this book after I got Porter and Teisberg's Redefining Health Care volume. I was disappointed because I was expecting something similar. The Information Cure is useful for someome who doesn't understand much about what is going on in healthcare or for someone who needs a good overview and refresher. But, I am a healthcare consultant (not a Trizetto competitor) and was expecting more data (hardly any in this book), and more insight (the book is too broad to deal with the details). It seems this is a book that Margolis is using to spread around to sell his consulting work. I do like him though, and nothing in the book if misleading or wrong - it's just not all that useful for professionals in the field.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Must Read for anyone working in healthcare,
This review is from: The Information Cure - Solving the Healthcare Crisis Systematically through Integrated Healthcare Management (Hardcover)
This is an extremely well thought out book that explains, with the use of interesting and easy to understand analogies and examples, how the health care system really works. It addresses how the system could work better, if technology was leveraged to meet the concerns in America about standards of care, availability and cost. The concept of Integrated Healthcare Management makes sense once you read Jeff's logic in support of the concept. I am convinced that this is the way health care management in America must go.
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