Synopses & Reviews
In recent years, health care leaders and legislators have introduced radical new systems of managed care and implemented marketplace reform. Despite these innovations, escalating costs and poor access have plagued America's health care system. To outside observers, a typical health care expert and reformer may seem a little like the Wizard of Oz-a flustered little man behind the curtain, fiddling with dials and making it up as he goes along. If our health care system is to realize its full potential in the 21st century, we need informed leaders who can restore public confidence with new visions of what is possible for the future.
Health Care in the New Millennium is written by futurist Ian Morrison-author of The Second Curve and Future Tense and one of our nation's foremost health care analysts. In this provocative book, Morrison gives health care executives, doctors, and nurses a guided tour of what's in store for health care in the coming years and explains . . .
- Why our one-trillion dollar health care industry has so many unhappy stakeholders
- Why investor-owned health systems are failing
- Why so few market-based reforms work
- Why health care leaders need new visions of what is possible for the future
Building on his nearly ten years with the acclaimed think tank, the Institute for the Future, Morrison shows why structural change within the evolving health care system has the potential to create unprecedented growth and opportunity for everyone in the field. The book is filled with visionary thinking, including resolving the fundamental tensions of cost, quality, access, and security of benefits; selecting the best from health care systems around the globe; learning lessons from other industries; driving change in the future; and applying the five key leadership steps.
Written with the author's unique blend of scholarship and wit, Health Care in the New Millennium provides a concise and easy-to-read synthesis of current health policy and clearly explains how to face the leadership challenges of today's and tomorrow's health care industry.
You Can Shape the Future of Health Care
America's leading futurist and health care analyst, Ian Morrison, gives health care executives and clinicians a guided tour of what the health care industry will look like in the 21st century.
Review
"I recommAnd this book to anyone searching for answers in the confusion of today's health care world." (David M. Lawrence, chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.)
"In this extremely useful book Ian Morrison challenges health care leaders to revisit health care values and build a better health system." (Gail L. Warden, president and CEO, Henry Ford Health System)
"Everyone who wants to understand the American health care system, or wants to improve it, should read this book. It is packed with original insights, provocative analysis, and a wealth of new ideas." (Humphrey Taylor, chairman, Louis Harris & Associates, Inc.)
"Ian Morrison is the de Tocqueville of American health care. He has a grasp of what's important, a fix on the future, and a way with words unlike anybody else on the health care scene." (Drew E. Altman, president and CEO, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
"Ian Morrison has done it again, captured the complex forces that are driving change in health care and proposed leadership solutions for the 360 degrees of health care. This book lays out with great craft where we've been and-more importantly-what leadership will need to resolve and demonstrate to move us into the new millennium." (Kathryn E. Johnson, CEO, Health Forum)
"Morrison's newage system thinking and irreverence for sacred cows allows us to examine the critical issues in health care. A must read for anyone involved in health care and community health improvement." (Mary Pittman, president and CEO, Health Research and Education Trust)
"The author succeeds in being simultaneously thoughtful, provocative, and entertaining while addressing the complex issues of the U.S. healthcare system.... An enjoyable and worthwhile addition to the library of healthcare leaders and serious students of U.S. health policy." (Doody Publishing, Inc.)
"Explores the challenges facing the U.S. health care system with wit, scholarly writing, and a broad perspective." (The American Journal of Nursing/American Nurses Association 2000 Book of the Year Award; (winner in the category of Health Policy))
Synopsis
Health Care in the New Millennium is written by futurist Ian Morrison-author of
The Second Curve and Future Tense and one of our nation's foremost health care analysts.In this provocative book, Morrison gives health care executives, doctors, and nurses a guided tour of what's in store for health care in the coming years and explains . . .
- Why our one-trillion dollar health care industry has so many unhappy stakeholders
- Why investor-owned health systems are failing
- Why so few market-based reforms work
- Why health care leaders need new visions of what is possible for the future
About the Author
IAN MORRISON is a senior fellow and past president of the Institute for the Future and chairman, Andersen Consulting Health Futures Forum. He is the author of numerous books and articles including Future Tense and the Business Week best-seller The Second Curve.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Health Care Vision and Values 1
2 Health Care Leadership Challenges 15
3 New Millennium Drivers of Change 39
4 The Challenges of Change 53
5 The Road to Managed Care 71
6 The Global Context 89
7 Big Ugly Buyers 105
8 Consumers: We've Seen the Enemy and It's Helen Hunt 125
9 After the Backlash: Strategies for Survival of Managed Care 135
10 Health Care Providers: The Empire Strikes Back or Strikes Out? 163
11 Leadership and White Space: The Struggle for Strategy Innovation in Health Care 199
12 Health Care in the New Millennium: The Long Boom Meets the Civil Society 213
13 Five Key Leadership Steps 231
About the Author 245
Index 247