Healthcare reform in the United States is a significant, strongly debated issue that has been argued since the early 1900s. Though this issue has been in circulation for decades, by integrating various new models and approaches, a more sustainable national healthcare system can perhaps be realized.

Evaluating Challenges and Opportunities for Healthcare Reform presents comprehensive coverage of the development of new models of healthcare systems that seek to create sustainable and optimal healthcare by improving quality and decreasing cost. While highlighting topics including high-value care, patient interaction, and sustainable healthcare, this book is ideally designed for government officials, policymakers, lawmakers, scholars, physicians, healthcare leaders, academicians, practitioners, and students and can be used to help all interested stakeholders to make well-informed decisions related to healthcare reform and policy development for the United States and beyond, as well as to help all individuals and families in their decisions related to choices of optimal healthcare plans.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

E-Health
Health Economics
Healthcare Delivery
High-Value Care
Leadership Intelligence
Medical Education
Patient Interaction
Professionalism Competency
Sustainable Healthcare
Telemedicine

Reviews & Statements

"This book represents a fresh look at many of the issues emerging to improve the health care “system” in the United States. Chapter topics include some new and innovative ideas about how to improve medical education of physicians, foster teamwork and “interprofessionality” to improve patient care, adopt best practices from the health care systems of other countries, new ways to reduce costs and finance care, and challenges in healthcare delivery in rural and underdeveloped areas. All of these are timely and interesting reviews of what has been, what we have, and what might be in improving our complex, chaotic, and difficult to understand system of health care delivery and financing."

– Pat Bankston, PhD

"This book on healthcare reform is different. It is truly transcendental in its approach to healthcare reform. It is not simply one more healthcare “solution” thrown out for readers to get confused about. The editors of this anthology have created a strategic, integrated thought-piece. Kudos to Selladurai et al., the editorial team, for choosing to bypass the narrow-minded partisan approach to healthcare reform that tends to deal with healthcare as a transactional marketplace with myopic approaches to making it more efficient. Instead, this book suggests an end-to-end approach to healthcare reform, from global best practices to adopting revolutionary technological advances, from re-inventing medical education to professional teamwork and recognizing that patients and healthcare deliverers have equal ownership in healthcare reform. It is with great enthusiasm that I tip my hat to this remarkable work!"

– Paul Prabhaker, PhD

"The authors of this book present a forward-thinking review of critical issues in the state of the health-care system in the United States. They have drawn from a broad spectrum of sectors in our society to bring a wide-ranging perspective to the subject. Re-inventing the health-care system of this county has grown to be a continual topic of concern in all sectors of our society, from the individual to our largest institutions. This compendium of articles, studies and meta-reviews of the problem, and national/international solution attempts to present the reader with a host of fresh, new ideas about the scope of the healthcare reform problem. They show where we have been ineffective, where we have had some success and several solution alternatives that have been successful in other countries from which we may learn. I strongly recommend this book to anyone wishing a better understanding of some of the most basic, underlying issues."

– Cuthbert Shepherdson, PhD

"Subsequent content addresses factors impacting changes in healthcare delivery, such as consumer engagement, teamwork across disciplines, finance models, use of technology including telemedicine, and the need for a competency-based educational model for basic and continued competency education for physicians...The objectives address challenges and opportunities for reform, new models to expand reform, and stakeholder perspectives. These are worthy objectives and are met through clear reports on each of these topics. In light of the continued debate about healthcare reform, it is a needed addition to the dialogue."

– Carole Kenner, PhD, The College of New Jersey, USA, Doody's Reviews

"This book dives into the significantly complex issue of health care reform the United States urgently needs to pursue. It gives a plethora of models, tools, and guidelines for transforming our dysfunctional health care system into one that provides patient-centered high value care for all...for students, researchers and all stakeholders including those looking to navigate the labyrinthine network of healthcare reform, this book offers a comprehensive guide on where to start, what to change, which parts to keep, and most importantly, how to be part of the change."

– Prof. Samy McFarlane, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, USA and Ms. Victoria Henglein, Binghamton University, USA

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Editor/Author Biographies

Raj Selladurai is an Associate Professor of Management in the School of Business and Economics at Indiana University Northwest. He also serves as Small Business Institute (SBI) Director for the School of Business and Economics. He has owned and managed a consulting business in the energy industry and other related areas. His research interests focus on the areas of servant leadership, business-healthcare collaboration, leadership effectiveness, operations and supply chain management, and high-speed rail and supply chain management. He is currently leading a project team as the Lead Project Director, working on a book project, “Challenges and Opportunities for Healthcare Reform.” The team consists of two business professors (Dr. Raj Selladurai and Dr. Charlie Hobson (Professors, Indiana University Northwest), and two physicians, (Dr. Roshini Selladurai MD, In His Image, OK, and Dr. Adam Greer (DO, Ascension St John, OK)), and they are working collaboratively on the healthcare project to be completed in 2020 and to be published by IGI Global, Inc. Healthcare Reform in the US is an ongoing, significant national initiative with strategic policy implications, which would affect several millions of stakeholders in the US, especially in the coming election year. He has published several papers, chapters, and case studies in various management and operations management related business publications and journals, including co-editing (with Shawn Carraher) a book on “Servant Leadership: Research and Practice.” He also co-edited with Peggy Daniels Lee and George VandeWerken, his other recent book, “Emerging Challenges and Opportunities of High Speed Rail on Business and Society,” which was published by IGI Global, Inc. Both of his innovative books are being actively promoted on social media like Twitter, with impressive results with around 33,000 impressions per month and growing! He has over 30 years of academic and professional business experience, including completing a Professional Certificate in "Servant Leadership: Path to High Performance" Executive Education Seminar at the prestigious Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. He also completed another Certificate in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School, Harvard University. He has also taught business management courses as Visiting Professor at universities in Austria and Switzerland. He has diverse leadership and administrative experiences in various organizations, including serving as a finance deacon at Bethel Church, Crown Point, Indiana, as a Group Leader at Bible Study Fellowship (BSF), and in other roles at the university, community, business, and other professional service organizations.

Charles J. Hobson is a Professor of Management in the School of Business and Economics at Indiana University Northwest. He has 157 professional publications/presentations and 3 books on human resource management topics. Dr. Hobson has provided consulting services to 196 organizations and functioned as an expert witness in 39 workplace and education discrimination cases. Finally, he served in the US Army for 5.5 years as both an enlisted man and officer.

Roshini Isabell Selladurai attended Indiana University for undergraduate degrees in psychology and chemistry and for medical school. She chose to pursue a career in family medicine in order to provide holistic care for all, both locally and internationally. Roshini is currently in her final year of training at In His Image Family Medicine residency in Tulsa, OK. She is passionate about her faith in Christ and grateful for His grace in her life.

Adam Greer has a Bachelor's in nutritional sciences, and a MBA, and DO all obtained from Oklahoma State University. He trained in residency at In His Image, in Tulsa, OK and is currently working as a family physician with Ascension St. John in Tulsa, OK.

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