title: Why are employers prodding health-care providers to adopt new management systems?: reducing the cost of health care.
abstract: Increasingly concerned about the escalating costs of health-care insurance coverage, the quality of health-care delivery, and the escalating costs of delivering clinical services, employers are taking action. They are prodding health-care providers and insurers to adopt breakthrough management systems aimed at reducing costs related to poorly performing services and processes--and at the same time improving clinical outcomes. Doing this will require all members of the health-care value chain to work together to improve each and every process and procedure, whether clinical or administrative. This development presents formidable challenges to all health-care providers, insurers, employees, and patients.
authors.affiliation: Juran Institute, Wilton, Connecticut, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: De Feo
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000639:trends*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States