For years, many physicians have felt like mere captives in the game of fixing health care. Physicians are no longer pawns, they are prime movers. A groundswell of physician innovators, determined to rebuild care one step at a time, is exactly what the system needs.
The innovations that have the greatest potential are of a certain minimum size. They are characterized by the creation of small multidisciplinary teams — a few people to a few dozen — that are dedicated full time to a single effort to redesign care from scratch for a particular patient population. They deploy providers in nontraditional ways. They sometimes invent entirely new roles and team structures for health care delivery.
How Physicians Can Fix Health Care: One Innovation at a Time is the essential step-by-step guide for physician innovators, their teams and the senior leaders in their organizations.
Chris Trimble has dedicated his career to studying innovation inside of established organizations. This is his sixth book.