Implantable Medical Devices and Healthcare Affordability - Exposing the Spiderweb (Paperback)

The United States spends more than 17% of its GDP on health care, while other developed countries throughout the world average 8.7% of GDP on healthcare expenditures. By 2028, that percentage in the United States is projected to be 19.7% of GDP. Yet all this spending apparently doesn't equate to value, quality, or performance. Among 11 high-income countries the United States healthcare industry ranked last during the past seven years in four key performance categories: administrative efficiency, access to care, equity, and healthcare outcomes. This book presents the implantable medical device (IMD) supply chain ecosystem as a microcosm of how these challenges of affordability and healthcare outcomes are created and are allowed to fester. The IMD Spiderweb, as the authors call it, is exposed as an example of how a wide range of participants-including physicians, health system CEOs, group purchasing organizations, health insurance companies and supply chain executives-become ensnared in a web designed to benefit only one player. The book also details the affordability challenges in the industry caused by the past and current IMD ecosystem and presents a model for meeting those challenges. The result is that the true cost of IMDs is hidden, while hospitals and health systems in the United States pay as much as six times more for some IMDs as their counterparts do in Europe, and prices for the same model of a particular IMD vary wildly even among different U.S. hospitals. While there is a fascination with the latest and greatest device there is also a shroud around visibility into how these products-which include cardiac rhythm management devices such as pacemakers and orthopedic implants such as knees and hips-have performed and are likely to perform in patients. The costs continue to rise not only in healthcare expenditures, but also in death and disability. The IMD spiderweb is presented as a prime lesson in the challenges in healthcare affordability and outcomes that occur throughout the entire healthcare industry. It is also put forward as an opportunity. The story behind how these challenges arose and are deepened by the ecosystem provides a foundation for solutions.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Mark C. West • Michael Georgulis
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-243053-9
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > General Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General Books > Children's & Educational > Science > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Public ownership / nationalization Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Production & quality control management Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Purchasing & supply management Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > Production engineering > General Books > Children's Fiction & Fun Promotions
LSN:	1-03-243053-2
Barcode:	9781032430539

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