Toward a 21st Century Health System

Toward a 21st Century Health System

Toward a 21st Century Health System's contributors include

George Avery, M.P.H., University of Minnesota School of Public Health and University of Minnesota-Duluth Department of Psychology
Robert A. Berenson, M.D., F.A.C.P., The Urban Institute
Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., Institute for Healthcare Improvement
William H. Campbell, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Pharmacy
Jon B. Christianson, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
Kenneth H. Chuang, M.D., San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Francis J. Crosson, M.D., The Permanente Federation
Helen Darling, M.A., National Business Group on Health
R. Adams Dudley, M.D., M.B.A., U.C. San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies
David M. Eddy, M.D., Ph.D.
Alain C. Enthoven, Ph.D., Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
Raymond Fink, Ph.D., Medical and Health Research Association of New York City
Merwyn (Mitch) R. Greenlick, Ph.D., Oregon Health and Science University Medical School
George C. Halvorson, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals
Richard E. Johnson, Ph.D., R.Ph., Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest
Sharon L. Levine, M.D., The Permanente Medical Group Harold S. Luft, U.C. San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies
Sachin H. Jain, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
James C. Robinson, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, School of Public Health
Julie Schmittdiel, M.A., U.C. Berkeley, School of Public Health
Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, School of Public Health
Jon A. Stewart, The Permanente Federation
Laura A. Tollen, M.P.H., Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
Allan J. Weiland, M.D., Northwest Permanente, P.C.
Jonathan P. Weiner, Dr.P.H., Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Praise for Toward a 21st Century Health System

After three decades of trying to reform health care by looking for a "silver bullet," I found the "future" has been here for more than a century. Policymakers tired of banging heads and gavels on stone walls need look no further than this well-designed analysis of prepaid group practice for the incentives necessary to enhance health system quality, safety, and performance, expand access and equity, and vastly improve the professional-patient relationship.
--Hon. David Durenberger, U.S. Senator (1978-1995), Senior Health Policy Fellow, University of St. Thomas

If you wonder why the American health system is judged by distinguished experts as "the poster boy of underachievement," read this collection of fine essays by longtime students of that system. The book is a particularly valuable read for students of medicine, health administration, and health policy. Here they will learn how much better value might be wrung out of the health system for the truly ample resources Americans grant it.
--Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison professor of Political Economy, Princeton University