The Empowerment of the Patient
Today’s healthcare consumers have more autonomy than yesterday’s patients ever did.
This is the starting premise of Patients Matter Most. Focused on this emergence of patient autonomy, author Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg explores the inevitable changes that technology has brought—and will continue to bring—to the healthcare industry. The transformation of Dr. Rosenberg’s focus has been enabled by the wide availability of technologies that have shifted procedures and devices which previously existed only in large medical centers into community clinics, stores, and people’s living rooms.
This democratization of diagnoses and treatments that once required highly specialized knowledge and equipment will help all of us take more control over our well-being, prevent chronic diseases, and pursue care at the right time, at the right place, in the right way, from the right people.
The right voice at the right time, Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg brings a lifetime of experience as a surgeon, medical school professor, and health system CEO to this exploration of every aspect of the changing healthcare landscape. Writing in plain language for consumers as well as medical providers, he connects the dots between parallel developments in technology and in healthcare delivery. The result is a wake-up call for healthcare providers to rethink what they do and how and where they do it.
Urging an industry that’s behind the times, Dr. Rosenberg calls on policymakers and those who train and employ healthcare providers to adapt—and to do it quickly. Because while technology has expanded access to and quality of care, it’s also opening the door to unprecedented competitors.
Patients Matter Most warns of the creeping influence of big retail and tech corporations that see trillion-dollar possibilities in providing healthcare. These new players come with promises of convenience, efficiency, and cost savings, but without some of our healthcare system’s traditional restraints. In Dr. Rosenberg’s view, the regulations and limits imposed on healthcare by governments and private intermediaries, such as insurance companies, are reaching the end of their sustainability.
Never losing sight of the goal of all physicians and healthcare systems, improving patient outcomes sits at the heart of Dr. Rosenberg’s latest work. With Real-life stories from a physician and healthcare leader who has been on the front lines of managing change this book is a compelling must-read for stakeholders at every level of healthcare.
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