Choice Matters: How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care)
Description
Choice Matters is the healthcare sector's guide to understanding and delivering the brand of consumer-centered care that is an imperative for the Zocdoc age.
Drawing on the authors' diverse backgrounds in medicine, business, and public policy, this practically-oriented resource offers an on-the-ground introduction for clinicians and managers to better understand: - The differences between healthcare and other consumer-driven markets
- What factors are most important for consumers in seeking care providers
- How consumers make decisions about healthcare
- The system-wide effects of increased consumer choice in healthcare
- The important distinction between patients and consumers
By celebrating the possibilities inherent to consumer-centered healthcare, Choice Matters offers a refreshing, empirically informed take on how healthcare in the United States can flourish, not wither, in the new economy. Key Features: - A concise guide for physicians, administrators, and insurers to the new economy of consumer choice in healthcare
- Examines consumer-centered healthcare from both a system-wide and individually-based perspective, giving readers applicable measures to improve practice and efficiency in the Zocdoc age
- Combines a theoretically-grounded account of consumer behavior with real-world examples of choice in action
- Applies insights into consumer-centered healthcare from the perspectives of behavioral economics, management, population health, psychology, marketing, and public policy
- Offers an alternative to partisan takes on consumer-centered healthcare and the roles of individuals, government, and industry in the provision of care
- An actionable guide to integrating consumer choice into every aspect of care, from a patient's initial medical appointment to her insurance company's final payment
- Presents a change model that enables leaders to utilize consumer and market forces to improve their services and the healthcare system
Publication Year: 2018
Edition: 1st Ed.
Authors/Editor:
Moore, Gordon; Quelch, John A.; Boudreau, Emily
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0-19-088613-4
Doody's Star Rating®:
Score: 82
Platform:
Ovid
Product Type: Book
Specialty:
Community Health & Disease Prevention
Health Administration
Health Systems & Services
Management
Language: English
Pages: 264
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