Status One: Breakthroughs in High Risk Population Health Management

By Samuel Forman and Matthew Kelliher

Book Overview

A Proactive Framework for Organizational Change

Learn to apply the principles of total quality management to themanagement of high-risk patients and improve quality of care, patient outcomes-and the bottom line.

"Finally, a model of managed health care that resonates withphysicians and patients. A new direction for care management thatmakes sense on both humanitarian and financial grounds."--SanfordT. Kurtz, M.D., vice president and chief medical officer, LaheyClinic

"An exciting, promising, practical, and brand new approach tosolving the cost/quality dilemma in managed care--high-riskpopulation health management. This well thought-out program focuseson managing patients, not physicians."--Stuart Baker, M.D., executive vice president of clinical affairs, Voluntary HospitalAssociation

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787941549
• ISBN13: 9780787941543
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Extraordinary Achievement!

Forman and Kelliher have written an outstanding book about managing "high risk" patients, risk bearing, and risk management in health care. It is a practical guide to reducing costs and risks in managed care. At a time of chaos in health care, this is a must read for anyone involved with the industry, and for anyone shaping government policy.Paul Bracken Professor of Management Yale School of Management