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J C Goldsmith

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Managed care mythology: supply-side dreams die hard.

As managed care gains increasing influence over the American health financing system, economic pressures and emerging market realities have created a fertile climate for wishful thinking on the part of hospital executives and physicians. Rather than accept the inevitability of reducing excess capacity and incomes, providers cling to self-serving myths about managed care's strategic direction. Here are five of these myths along with their contrasting market realities.

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The reshaping of healthcare. Part 2.

Powerful new tools produced by the biotechnology revolution--predictive genetics (and ultimately genetic therapy) and immunotherapy--will eventually make obsolete much of our current armada of crude "halfway" technologies, and enable us to prevent most illness altogether. These advances were discussed in the May/June issue of the Journal. This article addresses their likely impact on healthcare delivery.

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The health care market: can hospitals survive?

Does it sound familiar? Resources are scarce, competition is tough, and government regulations and a balanced budget are increasingly hard to meet at the same time. This is not the automobile or oil industry but the health care industry, and hospital managers are facing the same problems. And, maintains the author of this article, they must borrow some proven marketing techniques from business to survive in the new health care market. He first describes the features of the new market (the increasing economic power of physicians, new forms of health care delivery, prepaid health plans, and the changing regulatory environment) and then the possible marketing strategies for dealing with them (competing hard for physicians who control the patient flow and diversifying and promoting the mix of services). He also describes various planning solutions that make the most of a community's hospital facilities and affiliations.

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Succeeding beyond the Year 2000: how to rise to the challenges of the new millennium. Interview by Jill L. Sherer.

Are you ready to take your organization into the 21st century? Do you fully grasp the implications of current and emerging trends in the field? Healthcare Executive talked with six healthcare experts and asked them what they saw as the greatest challenge for both executives and their organizations in the new millennium. Although the experts' opinions vary, their responses emphasize the importance of repairing old relationships and building new partnerships between those working in healthcare organizations, as well as bringing a consumer focus back to healthcare delivery.

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A new industrial order for physicians: a talk with Jeff C. Goldsmith, PhD. Interview by Richard L. Reece.

Richard L. Reece, MD, interviewed Jeff C. Goldsmith, PhD, President of Health Futures, Inc. on October 12, 1999 to discuss how the Internet will affect health care delivery in the millennium. One of the most profound changes that he sees is how the relationship between physicians and patients will be altered. Empowered consumers are where the real revolution is happening--a trend sometimes overlooked by physicians. Goldsmith says, "The key thing physicians have missed is that the patient is in charge of the process.... The Internet has enabled patients to aggregate their collective experience across disease entities." But there is too much information. "It is almost universally acknowledged by patients and physicians that there is a terrible quality problem. Getting from information to knowledge is a huge commercial opportunity for somebody." He doesn't think that people have put enough emphasis on the collective learning part of this new technology.

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