Appendix A
ADDITIONAL KEY REFERENCE MATERIALS
Author(s) | Title | Content Summary |
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Jonathan Bush and Stephen Baker | Where Does It Hurt? | This book deals with some of the challenges in health care and promotes disruptive technology as a way to improve and transform health care delivery. |
Atul Gawande | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End | This book includes information about geriatric care, assisted living, nursing home care, and hospice care. |
Jerome Groopman | How Doctors Think | This book describes and discusses the clinical provider’s mindset, workflow, and biases they sometimes bring to interactions with patients. |
James R. Knickman and Brian Elbel | Jonas & Kovner’s Health Care Delivery in the United States, 12th Edition | This health care textbook targets postgraduate education and provides a survey of health care in the United States with topics including population health, health care cost, health information technology, and financing. |
T. R. Reid | The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care | This book discusses health care in the global context, with examples of universal health care in other industrialized countries and comparisons made to the U.S. system. |
Elizabeth Rosenthal | An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back | This book describes the for-profit U.S. health care system and the history of how it has evolved into what it is today. |
Leiyu Shi and Douglas A. Singh | Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System | This book is targeted to post-secondary students interested in or pursuing training in health disciplines and describes the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, implementation of Healthy People 2020, and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act. It also covers clinical provider workforce challenges, health disparities, and access-to-care issues. |
Author(s) | Title | Content Summary |
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Mark D. Shipley | In Search of Good Medicine: Hospital Marketing Strategies to Engage Healthcare Consumers | This book includes a discussion of the organization and management of health care organizations and how they market care to the public. |
Eric Topol | The Patient Will See You Now | This book discusses how technology and the digitization of data can be leveraged to improve care and patient health. |
Fred Trotter and David Uhlman | Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use | This book summarizes some of the key issues in the U.S. health care system with regard to the adoption of electronic health records and other health information technology issues that surround its adoption. |