Morey Menacker - Transforming Healthcare

Of course, it is certainly much easier for us to describe these “wicked” problems like control of HBP than to find and implement cogently clear pathways to solving them. And while Dr. Menacker's strong recommendation for global payments to health systems to simultaneously manage the associated clinical and financial risks is not new, it comes at just the right time in our history. What is urgently needed today to achieve the goals outlined in this book are stronger health system alliances and congruent alignment with insurers, employers, public health, community health safety net organizations, large and small biopharmaceutical and device firms, digital health Information technology companies and governmental health agencies. “Moving the Needle” of improved health status of the US population will require a major reprioritization of both capital and human resource allocation by all of these stakeholders. Transforming Healthcare is henceforth our Call to Action.

This book is accompanied by a companion website.

www.wiley.com/go/menacker/transforminghealthcare

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One may ask, “Why would a physician who has worked for years in our current healthcare system want to transform said system?” While there is no easy answer, I will try to explain. My postgraduate training took place in an inner city environment, where the majority of patients were hospitalized due to complications of their environment. This included drug addiction, poorly controlled hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, food insecurity, homelessness, and trauma. It became obvious early in my career that prevention was infinitely cheaper, and more rewarding, than treatment. The conundrum was in developing a method to pay for prevention.

It is imperative that those of us who work in a particular field, and benefit financially from that work, must give back in some way as gratitude for the opportunity, and to preserve these opportunities for future generations. It is also much easier to comment and suggest change in a field that has defined your entire life. We all have a responsibility to leave this world a better place than we found it.

It is common occurrence that when an international celebrity, or a wealthy foreigner, becomes ill, they automatically fly to the United States for their healthcare. These individuals would not come here if they thought the medical care was inferior. However, we are constantly bombarded by the media with tales of inadequate care, greed, malpractice, and refusal to provide needed services. Is it possible for these two disparate stories to both be true? The answer is a resounding YES. We are blessed with the best technology, the best treatments, the best research, the best hospitals, and the best physicians, yet the care provided can be disjointed, inadequate at times, cost prohibitive, and occasionally inappropriate.

This book attempts to explain how we got to this place and how we can get better.

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