2030: The Future of Medicine

Avoiding a Medical Meltdown
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-960066-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 128 mm x 197 mm, Gewicht: 164 g

It is 2030. What are the new technologies that have advanced healthcare? What are the new or strengthened demands placed on the healthcare systems of the world? Is the future affordable, or do we see drastic rationing of care or the collapse of healthcare insurance?
This book tackles these questions, and provides some answers. It does not shrink from the uncomfortable challenges that lie ahead, as demand surges and new technologies add to the strain. It lays out ten levers that stand a fighting chance of closing the healthcare equation, of balancing supply and demand. But these levers require radically new thinking on the part of politicians, health systems managers, professionals and patients alike. Thinking that needs to be urgently turned into action,
whatever the barriers and vested interests.
Of all subjects, healthcare is intensely personal, so the future is illustrated with the health histories of members of a fictional family, the Carters. They could live in the US or the UK - or any number of countries that all face the challenge of affordable healthcare over the next 20 years.

Zielgruppe

Medical professionals, both practising and in training, healthcare management consultants and other experts, health system executives and managers, politicians, other policy-makers and think-tanks, pharmaceutical and other life science business executives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barker, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction and summary
1: The supply of new medicine - unlimited?
2: The demand for healthcare - insatiable?
3: The meltdown - unavoidable?
4: Taking responsibility - a 20 year healthcare agenda
5: Conclusion - the US, the UK and the middle way

Über Autor(innen)

Barker, Richard
Richard has spent most of his career in healthcare, as a leader of organisations, as a board member and as a consultant. His leadership roles have spanned therapeutics, diagnostics and informatics both in the United States and in Europe. He was recently voted as one of the top 50 most influential people in UK healthcare and he sits on several healthcare and life sciences advisory boards on both sides of the Atlantic. His passions include securing a sustainable future for healthcare and redesigning how new medical technology is brought into practice. He now lives in London but is a frequent visitor to the US, where he spent 11 years working in Boston, New Haven, New York and San Francisco.