Designing Care

Author: Richard M. J. Bohmer
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 142217560X
Category: Medical

Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care

Today's health-care providers face growing criticism from policy makers and patients alike. Download Designing Care medical books for free.
As costs continue to spiral upward and concerns about quality of care escalate, the debate has focused on how to finance health care. Yet funding solutions can't address the underlying questions: Why have costs risen in the first place? And how can we improve the quality and affordability of care? In Designing Care, Harvard Business School professor Richard Bohmer argues that these fundamental questions must be answered. A medical doctor himself, Bohmer explains that health-care professionals are tasked with providing two very different types of care-sequential and iterative. With sequential care, a patient can be quickly diagnosed and given pred Get Designing Care our bestseller medical books.

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