Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alain C. Enthoven is Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management (Emeritus), Graduate School of Business, and Senior Fellow, , Center for Health Policy, Stanford University. He was an architect of the managed competition model of health reform, subsequently adopted by President Clinton in the Health Security Act of 1996.

Laura A. Tollen is senior policy consultant for the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy. She works on issues related to insurance market structure and functioning.

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Toward a 21^st Century Health System scontributors 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 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

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"Organized systems are essential to ensure quality improvement and reduce errors in health care.... Everyone who is affected by health care should read this book to understand that real-world examples of effective systems do exist and offer promise to meet the challenge of 21^st century medicine. We need the ideas and examples presented so vividly here."
Christine K. Cassel, M.D., president and CEO, American Board of Internal Medicine and ABIM Foundation

Toward a 21^st Century Health System offers students of American health care an important perspective on the value of prepaid group practice as a cost-efficient, high-quality alternative to the more common network-based model of managed care?the target of the so-called managed care backlash of the late 1990s.

Toward a 21^st Century Health System is a collection of thoughtful analyses that explore a key element of the health care delivery system physician group practices. Edited by policy experts Alain Enthoven and Laura Tollen, and written by a blue ribbon panel of health policy scholars and leaders including Stephen Shortell, Hal Luft, Donald Berwick, James Robinson, and Helen Darling, this resource addresses a variety of topics, including?

• Organized delivery systems
• Quality of care in prepaid group practice versus other types of managed care
• The role of physician leadership and culture in group practice
• Prepaid group practice and the formation of national health policy

This comprehensive resource also covers such topics as pharmacy benefit management, technology assessment, health services research, and employer purchasing of benefits? all as they relate to prepaid group practice.