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Health Care Should Be A Team Sport

When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. Now, Dishman puts his experience and his expertise as a medical tech specialist together to suggest a bold idea for reinventing health care -- by putting the patient at the center of a treatment team.

Subjects:: Management of Health Care Services
Keywords:: Medical care Health services administration
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How To Do More With Less in Healthcare

As medicine advances, so does the complexity and price of healthcare. For inspiration on ways to keep healthcare affordable, Jan Denecker shares three simple, yet effective innovations from the developing world, where constraints on resources have caused the healthcare industry to adopt a mentality of doing more with less.

Subjects:: Management of Health Care Services
Keywords:: Medical care Health services administration
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World-Class Health Care

Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to offer world-class healthcare in the developing world.

Subjects:: Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
Keywords:: Health services administration
Resource Type:: Video

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Take Health Care off The Mainframe

At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for all.

Subjects:: Management of Health Care Services and Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords:: Health services administration Community health services Older people -- Medical care
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A New Way To Fund Health Care for The Most Vulnerable

In 2011, eye surgeon and TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous developed a smartphone app that brings quality eye care to remote communities, helping people avoid losing their sight to curable or preventable conditions. Along the way, he noticed a problem: strict funding regulations meant that he could only operate on people with specific diseases, leaving many others without resources for treatment. In this passionate talk, Bastawrous calls for a new health care funding model that's flexible and ambitious -- to deliver better health to everyone, whatever their needs are.

Subjects:: Management of Health Care Services
Keywords:: Health services administration Poor -- Medical care -- Finance
Resource Type:: Video

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