Harvard Business Review on Fixing Healthcare from Inside & Out

How can management cure health care''s ills?

If you need the best practices and ideas for transforming health care--but don''t have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.

The HBR articles in this collection propose several remedies:

- Organizing doctors into teams

- Focusing incentives on patients'' recovery

- Saving lives and dollars by designing clearer work processes

- Sharing knowledge through industry networks

- Knocking down barriers to innovation in funding, policy,

and technology

- Treating common ailments with simpler interventions

- Bridging the divide between clinicians and administrators

- Ramping up R&D productivity by returning power to scientists