Best care anywhere
Subtitle: why VA health care would work better for everyone
By: Phillip Longman
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: BK currents book; BK currents book
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781609945176
Subjects: Electronic Health Records; Quality of Health Care; United States. Dept. of Veterans Affairs; Delivery of Health Care; United States; Veterans Hospitals
Description: "Once denigrated for shoddy care and antiquated systems, the VA health system has become a hallmark of excellence and technical innovation. Best Care Anywhere uses the VA turnaround to illustrate deeper lessons for the U.S. health care system. In particular, it shows how fee-for-service healthcare leads to more expensive, less comprehensive, and less effective healthcare. Takeaway: efficient electronic medical records are the secret key to better health outcomes. New to this edition is a particular focus on the trials and tribulations of "Obamacare," the Ryan proposal, and the fiscal crisis. It also includes new success stories of "exporting" the VA VistA system in West Virginia and Texas as well as completely updated statistics and research, including 2011 cancer studies by Harvard University that prove VA cancer patients outlive cancer patients in traditional healthcare."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Best Care Anywhere; title: Hitting Bottom; title: Revenge of the Hard Hats; title: VistA in Action; title: The Kizer Revolution; title: Safety First; title: Who Cares about Quality?; title: When Less Is More; title: Open-Source Medicine; title: The Electronic Medical Records Movement; title: Growing the VA; title: The Vista Life Network Epilogue.