The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World's Leading Health Care Organizations VIDEO ENHANCED EBOOK

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Toward a Healthier Future

There are interconnected trends that are shaping twenty-first-century medicine: the movements toward large group practices, collaboration, use of big data, innovation, better patient experience, wellness and integrated care, and personalized medicine. Our healthcare system has the potential to be much better, more efficient, and more affordable than it is today. We have it in our power to make healthcare work, but for that to happen, we need to push these trends further—as professionals, as patients, and as Americans. We need to make healthcare bigger and more efficient, but simultaneously smaller, more intimate, more personal, and more suited to the individual patient, so that it serves us well and delivers ...