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Title: Prescription for the Future

Subtitle: The Twelve Transformational Practices of Highly Effective Medical Organizations

Author: Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Narrator: David DeVries

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Business, Management

Publisher's Summary:

How can America's health-care system be transformed to provide consistently higher-quality and lower-cost care? Nothing else in health care 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 12 transformational practices that could transform the entire health-care 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 multispecialty group practices, accountable care organizations, and even for-profit companies - that are genuinely transforming care.

Prescription for the Future shines a bright diagnostic light on the state of American health care and provides invaluable insights for health-care workers, investors, and patients. The book gives all of us the tools to recognize the places that will deliver high-quality, effective care when we need it.

Members Reviews:

Prescription is Evolutionary not Revoluionary

Dr. Emanuel demonstrates that there are incremental improvements that could, if more widely adopted, reduce the cost of delivering health care in the United States.

What is good about the book is that it's approach is evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

What needs is improvement -- perhaps one more chapter at the end -- is a GREATER SENSE OF URGENCY re: broader implementation of these basic and achievable results.

Urgent Care

a spot on analysis about the shortcomings of our current healthcare system and real-world examples of how it can be fixed.

Good policy perspectives

I'm only almost through chapter two right now but am getting excited about some policy implementation information shared in the book. Good stuff! The author seems to have a great grasp of big picture issues.

Provides hope for change in the political negative environment: pragmatic and sound advice!

The book is be readable with practices that are backed up by many examples and stories. I also liked answering how do you pick your provider-if we as customers asked those questions it would be a catalyst for change. Though I am a health IT person I liked the practical discussion of not getting enamored by virtual medicine hyped appeal but seeing the very practical telehealth and new care coordination models can work. The other key concept is the packaging of changes that can be adapted and extended to meet the organization's situational specific needs. I wish there were a few pictures- I like them and I think some of the states are really working transformation like Delaware and others. This is a great read for optimists like me!

Must read for health care leaders

I teach health care at the college level. Dr. Emanuel does a great job of laying out some of the solutions providers have found to both improve customer service and healthcare outcomes. If you work in healthcare and are wondering where the ACA is leading the Amercian Healthcare systems.