Institutional change in health care: opportunities in the coming crisis
Abstract
Purpose
Aims to review institutional change in health care and to look for opportunities in what the author sees as a coming crisis.
Design/methodology/approach
A consultant on health‐care systems reviews the forces driving transformation in medicine, including new technologies, telemedicine, and prevention.
Findings
Finds forces driving transformation in medicine limited in addressing the crisis of spiraling cost and mediocre, overly complex treatment.
Originality/value
Concludes that a dramatic shift in perspective is coming as baby boomers are forced to face the inevitability of death in positive terms.
Keywords
Citation
Peck, J.C. (2005), "Institutional change in health care: opportunities in the coming crisis", On the Horizon, Vol. 13 No. 1, pp. 36-45. https://doi.org/10.1108/10748120510601653
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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