Prescription for the Future-book review

From: lance
Date: 22 Apr 2001
Time: 01:21:47
Remote Name: 17.las-vegas-01-02rs.nv.dial-access.att.net

Comments

Prescription for the Future-How the Technology is Changing the Pulse of global Health Care-By Moore, Rey, Rollins.

All in conjunction with Anderson Consulting. It is interesting how many things in this book describing the future came to be and how many things did not. It was written in 1996 and predicted some great things and the ideals presented produced some great things, yet right after this book Columbia Health Care showed everyone the light. This book cited real life examples and successes and real life failures. In hindsight we see that the idealism was ahead of its time and the components which did not fit were many of the things which were not in the equation. Government regulations for one. Would I recomment this book? Yes just like I would remember Business at the Speed of thought or Bill Gates Speaks, yet I would not call it the end all cure all for health care. Recent technology has revolutionized the healthcare industry for ever. I question many aspects of this book along with those methods recommended in a book like TQM, the new and the old cannot fully be integrated and sometimes the old must be destroyed to usher in the new, otherwise the you just get new buzzwords and minutia.

Most of the examples of case studies and real life successes in this book and there were a ton of them, should be studied and celebrated. I only recommend this book as a excersize in thought process and problem solving as it will help anyone in any industry, but I do not recommend this book to anyone wanting to revitalize an HMO or Hospital because it is now outdated. I see why it was so popular back in its hay day. I probably should have read it then when I bought the damn thing. If you are a professional, consolidator or in the Health care industry you should read it, with a salt shaker near by.

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