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From the thought leaders at Boston Consulting Group come lessons on
how leading health systems around the world are delivering
patient-centered, value-based care by focusing on the health
outcomes that matter to patients. Delivering better health outcomes
to patients for the money spent is an approach known as value-based
health care. Contrary to traditional approaches to health-systems
reform that emphasize cost containment, value-based health care
shifts the focus to continuous improvement in the health outcomes
delivered to patients. The premise of this approach is that
systematically measuring, tracking, and improving health outcomes
over time can have a transformative effect on the health care
industry-enabling health systems to deliver better patient outcomes
more consistently; to identify and disseminate best-practice
treatments more rapidly; and to control total health-care costs
more effectively because unnecessary procedures are eliminated,
expensive complications occur less frequently, and repeat
treatments are avoided. The only way for health systems to
sustainably contain costs is by putting the patient and the
delivery of outcomes that matter to patients at the center of the
industry's efforts and by aligning incentives around the continuous
improvement of health outcomes in a cost-effective manner.
Featuring powerful case studies of leading value-based innovators
in health systems all over the world-both public and private, as
well as from both high- and low-income countries-this book is
designed as a practical step-by-step guide for clinicians, payers,
and policymakers alike to put these ideas into action. The Patient
Priority will be an indispensable tool to launch a new era of
patient-centered innovation, unlock value in health care, and
accelerate the value-based transformation of the world's health
systems, enabling improvements in productivity, performance, and
population health.
Stefan Larsson's Conceptions in the Code makes a significant
contribution to sociolegal analysis, representing a valuable
contribution to conceptual metaphor theory. By utilising the case
of copyright in a digital context it explains the role that
metaphor plays when the law is dealing with technological change,
displaying both conceptual path-dependence as well as what is
called non-legislative developments in the law. The overall
analysis draws from conceptual studies of "property" in
intellectual property. By using Karl Renner's account of property,
Larsson demonstrates how the property regime of copyright is the
projection of an older regime of control onto a new set of digital
social relations. Further, through an analysis of the concept of
"copy" in copyright as well as the metaphorical battle of defining
the BitTorrent site "The Pirate Bay" in the Swedish court case with
its founders, Larsson shows the historical and embodied dependence
of digital phenomena in law, and thereby how normative aspects of
the source concept also stains the target domain. The book also
draws from empirical studies on file sharing and historical
expressions of the conceptualisation of law, revealing both the
cultural bias of both file sharing and law. Also law is thereby
shown to be largely depending on metaphors and embodiment to be
reified and understood. The contribution is relevant for the
conceptual and regulatory struggles of a multitude of contemporary
socio-digital phenomena in addition to copyright and file sharing,
including big data and the oft-praised "openness" of digital
innovation.
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