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Why Not Better and Cheaper? : Healthcare and Innovation by Robert S. Rebitzer and James B. Rebitzer (2023, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100197603106
ISBN-139780197603109
eBay Product ID (ePID)21058810148
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
Publication NameWhy Not Better and Cheaper? : Healthcare and Innovation
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
SubjectPublic Health, Health Care Issues, General, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Health & Fitness, Business & Economics, Medical
AuthorRobert S. Rebitzer, James B. Rebitzer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight14.6 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2023-000204
ReviewsThe Rebitzers explore an overlooked feature of our healthcare system: it is too easy to profit from low-value innovations and too hard for cost-reducing innovations to find a buyer. The book is full of engaging examples and policy ideas. Anyone who cares about innovation in healthcare and wants to make things better should read it.
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal362.1
Table Of ContentChapter 1: Introduction and Overview Chapter 2: Economically Valuable Innovation Chapter 3: Missing Innovations Chapter 4: Shared Savings Chapter 5: Beyond Financial Incentives Chapter 6: Competition, Innovation, and Disruption Chapter 7: Dilemmas and Opportunities Appendix 1: Does Innovation Respond to Expected Profits? Appendix 2: Incentives Leading to Overlooked Innovations Outside of Healthcare Acknowledgments References Index
SynopsisAn engaging account of innovation in healthcare and why the results fall short for patients and society. The evolution of the cell phones we carry in our pockets demonstrates that quality can increase while prices fall. Why doesn't healthcare also get better and cheaper? In Why Not Better and Cheaper?, James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer offer an answer to this question. Bringing together research on incentives, social norms, and market competition, they argue that the healthcare system generates the wrong kinds of innovation. It is too easy to profit from low-value innovations and too hard to profit from innovations that reduce the costs of care. The result is a healthcare system that is profusely innovative yet remarkably ineffective in discovering ways to deliver increased value at lower cost. Why Not Better and Cheaper? sheds new light on the trajectory of innovation in healthcare, and how to point innovation in a better direction., An engaging account of innovation in healthcare and why the results fall short for patients and society.The evolution of the cell phones we carry in our pockets demonstrates that quality can increase while prices fall. Why doesn't healthcare also get better and cheaper? In Why Not Better and Cheaper?, James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer offer an answer to this question. Bringing togetherresearch on incentives, social norms, and market competition, they argue that the healthcare system generates the wrong kinds of innovation. It is too easy to profit from low-value innovations and too hard to profit frominnovations that reduce the costs of care. The result is a healthcare system that is profusely innovative yet remarkably ineffective in discovering ways to deliver increased value at lower cost. Why Not Better and Cheaper? sheds new light on the trajectory of innovation in healthcare, and how to point innovation in a better direction., Why doesn't healthcare get better and cheaper like the cell phones we carry in our pockets? In this book, James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer argue that it's because the healthcare system generates the wrong kinds of innovation. Further, they show that incentive contracts, professional norms, social narratives, and the nature of competition and disruption in the health sector conspire against cost-reducing innovation. The book not only sheds new light on the trajectory of innovation in healthcare, but it also highlights how we can point innovation in a better direction to deliver more value to patients and society., An engaging account of innovation in healthcare and why the results fall short for patients and society. The evolution of the cell phones we carry in our pockets demonstrates that quality can increase while prices fall. Why doesn't healthcare also get better and cheaper? In Why Not Better and Cheaper? , James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer offer an answer to this question. Bringing together research on incentives, social norms, and market competition, they argue that the healthcare system generates the wrong kinds of innovation. It is too easy to profit from low-value innovations and too hard to profit from innovations that reduce the costs of care. The result is a healthcare system that is profusely innovative yet remarkably ineffective in discovering ways to deliver increased value at lower cost. Why Not Better and Cheaper? sheds new light on the trajectory of innovation in healthcare, and how to point innovation in a better direction.
LC Classification NumberRA413.5.U5
