Ezekiel J. Emmanuel, "Prescription For The Future"

In his primer on the future of health care, Dr. Emanuel, an oncologist, bioethicist, and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, describes a system we’re just beginning to glimpse. Emanuel finds that the best models include focusing services on the high-cost chronically ill, streamlining processes of care, providing more intense outpatient services with standardized care practices, and using rigorous data collection to provide identifiable, comparative performance data. He also identifies three “megatrends” that will shape the industry: total care, reinvention of the primary care team—including a community-based health advisor--and the end of many medical specialties. The author of Healthcare Guaranteed and Reinventing American Healthcare, Emanuel was an architect of the Affordable Care Act.

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