Health Care Reboot - Megatrends Energizing American Medicine -

injects a much-needed dose of optimism into the national health care debate.

The book makes a compelling case that a series of powerful trends are leading

the nation’s health care system toward greater quality, safety, access, and

affordability. The trends include historic breakthroughs in treatments for

heart disease and cancer; integration of behavioral health services into

primary care; recognizing and acting upon the broad effect of social

determinants of health; consumer empowerment focused on measures and outcomes

that matter most to patients; paying for value rather than volume causing

doctors and hospitals to shift to a newly aggressive proactive approach to

caring for patients. Collectively, these trends are rebooting our health care

system to better serve the needs of providers, payers, and, most importantly,

patients.