Books by the Top Healthcare Thought Leaders of 2014
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Drew Altman, PhD. Dr. Altman is president and CEO of the Menlo Park, Calif.-based Kaiser Family Foundation
Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care: The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle
Don Berwick, MD. Considered to be one of the most influential healthcare leaders in the country, Dr. Berwick co-founded the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, an organization that invented the triple aim concept: better care, improved population health, reduced costs per capita. He also was a member of the Institute of Medicine’s governing council and global health board.
Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It
Escape Fire: Designs for the Future of Health Care
Curing Health Care: New Strategies for Quality Improvement
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Maureen Bisognano, RN. President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement succeeding Don Berwick. Ms. Bisognano advises healthcare leaders around the world. She was appointed to The Commonwealth Fund’s Commission on a Higher Performance Health System, is an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and serves on several healthcare boards
10 Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Care, Book 4
10 Powerful Ideas for Improving Patient Care: Book 3
10 More Powerful Ideas For Improving Patient Care
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David Blumenthal, MD. Dr. Blumenthal is best known for serving as the National Coordinator for Health IT from 2009 to 2011. During his tenure, he oversaw the implementation of the meaningful use program and other provisions of the HITECH Act. He currently serves as the president of The Commonwealth Fund, a national nonprofit focused on research into healthcare and social policy issues.
The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office
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Jeffrey Brenner, MD. Dr. Brenner — executive director of the Camden (N.J.) Coalition of Healthcare Providers — is a primary care physician and one of 24 recipients of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, or “genius grant.” Dr. Brenner is also medical director of the Urban Health Institute at the Cooper University Healthcare and on the faculty of the Cooper Medical School at Rowan University in Camden.
Paradigm For Better Health Care: The Medicaid ACO Model
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Toby Cosgrove, MD. Dr. Cosgrove is president and CEO of the Cleveland Clinic. He has published nearly 450 journal articles and earlier this year released a 200-page book, “The Cleveland Clinic Way.” He has received the Clinic’s Master Clinician Award, Innovator of the Year Award and Lerner Humanitarian Award.
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Melanie Dreher, PhD. Dr. Dreher is one of the most innovative thinkers in healthcare today, combining her nursing knowledge and humanities background to produce forward-thinking research. Dr. Dreher serves as the dean of the College of Nursing at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, and she also chairs the board of Livonia, Mich.-based CHE Trinity Health, the second-largest Catholic health system in the U.S.
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Atul Gawande, MD, PhD. is a surgeon, professor, public health researcher, and author. Dr. Gawande is Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he practices general and endocrine surgery, and at Harvard School of Public Health, where he is professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He has received two National Magazine Awards as well as a MacArthur Fellowship, and he has been named one of the hundred most influential thinkers by Foreign Policy and TIME.
Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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George Halvorson. Mr. Halvorson is the CEO of the First 5 California Children and Families Commission. He served as the CEO and chairman of the Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente from 2002 to 2013. He also serves on the Institute of Medicine Task Force on Evidence Based Care and on the American Hospital Association’s Advisory Committee on Health Care Reform.
Don’t Let Health Care Bankrupt America: Strategies for Financial Survival
KP Inside – 101 Letters to Us at Kaiser Permanente
Ending Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Disparities in American Health Care
Health Care Will Not Reform Itself
Health Care Reform Now!: A Prescription for Change
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