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Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer: Defining Your Strategy
by David Nash, MD, MBA, Mary Pat Manfredi, Barbara Bozarth, Susan Howell

Hardcover, 544 pages
ISBN: 0834220040
9780834220041
Jones & Bartlett
April 2001
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Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer: Defining Your Strategy explores the impact of consumerism on all segments of the healthcare industry. 

It serves as a comprehensive guide offering sound advice to help healthcare decision-makers respond to the growing consumer movement, as they develop and implement business plans, strategies and investment decisions.

Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer details the ways in which healthcare consumers have changed, and the book assists readers in connecting with their customers. Written by a diverse and experienced group of healthcare leaders, this book addresses the multi-level effects of the new, empowered healthcare consumer, and is unique in its coverage of the shifting healthcare marketplace. Topics fully covered include:

  • Listening to the Consumer: A Historical Review

  • The Public View of Healthcare

  • The Self-Care Trend and the New Healthcare Marketplace

  • Medical and Health Reporting in the News Media

  • The Online Community as a Healthcare Resource

  • Relationship-Based Care: Strengthening the Patient-Physician Relationship

  • Dynamic of the Patient-Provider Relationship

  • Improving Consumer Health through Disease Management

  • The Drug Benefit: Design and Management

  • The Role of Self-Care and Nonprescription Drug Therapy in Managing Illness: The Rx-to-OTC Switch Movement

  • Empowering Consumers to Make Informed Choices

  • The Ascendancy of the Employer as Consumer Advocate in Healthcare

  • Employer Groups (Purchasers) and New Healthcare Consumer Government Connection to the New Healthcare Consumer

  • Health System Initiatives

  • The Healthwise Communities Project

  • Nursing: Linking Today's Consumer to a Changing System

  • The Elderly as New Consumer of Healthcare

  • Women's Health: Women as the (Not-so-New) Healthcare Consumer

  • Consumer Advocacy and Mental Health

  • Examining Alternative Medicine

David Nash, MD, MBA is The Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor and Chairman of the Department of Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Jefferson is one of a handful of medical schools in the nation with an endowed professorship in health policy. Dr. Nash, a board certified internist, founded the original Office of Health Policy in 1990. From 1996 to 2003, he served as the first Associate Dean for Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College. In 2004, he was named Co-director of the Masters Program in Public Health at Jefferson. Internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development, and quality-of-care improvement, his publications have appeared in more than 60 articles in major journals and in a dozen edited books, including A Systems Approach to Disease Management by Jossey-Bass Publishers and Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer by Jones and Bartlett Publishers. In 1995, he was awarded the Latiolais ("Lay-shee-o-lay") Prize by the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy for his leadership in disease management and pharmacoeconomics. He also received the Philadelphia Business Journal Healthcare Heroes Award in October 1997 and was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the American College of Physician Executives in 1998.

Named by Modern Healthcare to the top 100 most powerful persons in healthcare list, his national activities include appointment to the JCAHO Advisory Committee on Performance Measurement, the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT) Board, and membership on the Board of Directors of the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA) -- three key national groups focusing on quality measurement and improvement. He continues as one of the principal faculty members for quality of care issues of the American College of Physician Executives in Tampa, FL, and the developer of the ACPE Capstone Course on Quality. Dr. Nash is on the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Partnerships in Quality Education program, bringing together managed care organizations and leading academic medical centers. Finally, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of Catholic Healthcare Partners in Cincinnati, Ohio -- one of the nation's largest integrated delivery systems and chairs the Board Committee on Quality.

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