I’m hoping many of you have already heard the news about my latest book, Potent Medicine: The Collaborative Cure for Healthcare. It launched earlier this month, and if you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, jump over to our Books & Media page. The Kindle version will be available in May.
I’m particularly excited about this book for a couple reasons. One, it showcases the great leaders and colleagues I’ve known on the healthcare front here in Wisconsin, and two, it really goes beyond the page to offer a call to action for providers, patients, legislators and employers – all the key stakeholders in healthcare.
A piecemeal approach to solving this crisis is not the answer, and Potent Medicine offers a specific prescription for each of those stakeholder groups. You can learn from our mistakes and use them to inform a new roadmap for moving forward. Every example in the book is based on actual experience not theory.
Wisconsin is a place where innovation in payment and transparency is happening. Provider systems like ThedaCare and Gundersen Lutheran are achieving nation leading healthcare performance results thanks to the data and feedback from the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality and the Wisconsin Health Information Organization.
We encourage you to get involved in similar experiments regarding payment and data transparency. Keep us updated on your progress and connect with us to learn what others are doing as well.
There is no simple answer to achieving a sustainable, quality healthcare system in this country. The next steps will not be easy or natural, but they are the beginning of the cure.
What are you doing to get engaged?
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