The information cure

Does the U.S. healthcare system need a do not resuscitate order? If you watch TV, surf the Web, ask your neighbor or even your doctor you might think our healthcare system is among the worst in the world. Jeff Margolis, a nationally recognized healthcare and systems expert, thinks otherwise. As founder and CEO of The TriZetto Group, Inc., a healthcare information technology company that helps link benefits to care for more than 100 million Americans today, as a former healthcare executive with responsibility for overseeing information technology at health plans, hospitals, physician practices and pharmacies and as a healthcare consumer living with a severe chronic illness Jeff offers a unique look at the U.S. healthcare system as a system. Drawing on examples from many industries and using language that is accessible to the typical healthcare consumer, those working in the healthcare industry and healthcare policymakers, Jeff describes his vision for Integrated Healthcare Management an approach that combines systematically designed information technology and processes to drive new types of behaviors that can cure the ailing U.S. healthcare system. The Information Cure is practical because it builds upon our healthcare model today and describes specific steps to create the system of tomorrow affordably and sustainably. Jeff explains how health plans, health professionals, and consumers will all need to participate actively in the solution. If they do, the U.S. healthcare system will truly be on the brink of success.