1st Edition

Implantable Medical Devices and Healthcare Affordability Exposing the Spiderweb

174 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Productivity Press

174 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Productivity Press

174 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Productivity Press

The United States spends more than 17% of its GDP on healthcare, while other developed countries average 8.7% of GDP on healthcare expenditures. All this spending doesn’t equate to value, quality, or performance, however. Among 11 high-income countries, the United States healthcare industry ranked last during the past seven years in four key performance categories: administrative efficiency,... Read more

Introduction:  Challenges in Healthcare Affordability and Outcomes

Chapter 1. Getting Clarity on Where We Are in Healthcare

Chapter 2. Removing Blind Spots: Medical Device Affordability and Transparency

Chapter 3. GPOs: The Promise of Collective Buying Power

Chapter 4. Supply Chain and Physician Considerations in Value Analysis

Chapter 5. Stepping up to Affordability Challenges

Chapter 6. The Spiderweb and Alignment

Chapter 7. The Spider in the Spiderweb

Chapter 8. Escaping the IMD Spiderweb

Index

Biography

Mark C. West