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Feeling Alright: How the Message in the Music Can Make Healthcare Healthier
Everything I have learned personally and professionally in leading three different medical colleges and health systems for the past 30 years, I owe to lessons I learned from being a DJ for 40 years. Think of this book as “Ten Tunes for Transformation.” Ten songs, ten chapters that I believe represent my best thoughts around the creative construction of a “health assurance” system to correct and transform the broken, fragmented, expensive and inequitable delivery system we have today.
Check out the playlists for Dr. Klasko’s newest book on Spotify
Unhealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance
In UnHealthcare, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Hemant Taneja and Jefferson Health CEO Stephen Klasko, along with writer Kevin Maney, make a provocative case for a new data-driven, cloud-based category of healthcare called “health assurance.” The authors show how health assurance can be built using today’s technology, how it will help us all stay healthier at less cost, and how data from health assurance services can help individuals and officials contain and manage deadly virus outbreaks such as Covid-19. More than just a thesis, UnHealthcare is a guide to how entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals, and policymakers can bring health assurance to the mainstream and finally develop a solution to America’s healthcare debacle.
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc. (May 29, 2020)
ISBN-13: 978-1-716996-51-1
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 6 wide x 9 tall
Bless This Mess: A Picture Story of Healthcare in America
In 2035 an amazing thing happens – the USA is elected to the Intergalactic Council, the collection of cool healthcare systems from across the universe. How did that happen, when in 2018 the healthcare delivery system of the United States was the opposite of cool – inefficient, fragmented, unfriendly and inequitable?
In his third book, Stephen Klasko sketches the “mess” of healthcare in America, and tours the galaxy to find planets where different decisions led to radically different outcomes. With illustrator Chrissie Bonner, Klasko asks what will be obvious in the future and challenges us to do those things now.
Dr. Klasko is the President and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health and is known as a national advocate for transformation in healthcare.
“Bless This Mess: A Picture Story of Healthcare in America” is published by Jefferson University Press with lulu.com, where the book is immediately available.
Print Length: 100 pages
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc. (April 4, 2018)
ISBN-13: 978-1-483479-62-0
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 8.5 wide x 11 tall
Patient No Longer: Why Healthcare Must Deliver the Care Experience That Consumers Want and Expect
Dr. Klasko and Ryan Donohue explore this evolving delivery model in a fascinating look at the history of patient-centric care and the rise of the healthcare consumer as a powerful new voice. In addition to the compelling reasons why consumer-centric care is so crucial, the authors share how leaders can work to build health systems focused on it.
Publisher: Health Administration Press, 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1-64055-180-0
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 6 wide x 9 tall
We Can Fix Healthcare: The 12 Disruptors that will Create Transformation
Kindle Edition
Dr. Stephen K. Klasko, along with co-authors Gregory Shea, and Michael Hoad, proposes an extraordinary, even science fiction, event where a no-blaming conversation about the healthcare system leads to provocative ideas for disruption that allow even Democrats and Republicans to see that they can collaborate. Built on 100 interviews from every part of the system, Steve finds extraordinary solutions from education to insurance to disparities (with a little help from a time-traveling Harry Truman). This book posits that the solution to healthcare in America is a collaboration to transform, not tinker.
File Size: 2100 KB
Print Length: 287 pages
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc. (November 2, 2017)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
The Phantom Stethoscope: A Field Manual for Finding an Optimistic Future in Medicine
Through the ingenious use of combining science fiction with industry expertise, Stephen K. Klasko, a practicing physician, and Gregory P. Shea, Wharton faculty member and health-care consultant, pose this provocative question: What if a medical resident was abducted by aliens in 1985, and through advanced technology was imparted a full understanding of the health-care system of the future? Mila undergoes this phenomenal experience and her life changes forever as she discovers an exciting and improved future in medicine.
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Hillsboro Press 1 edition (July 25, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 157736144X
ISBN-13: 978-1577361442
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
Publications:
Healthcare Transformation
Stephen K. Klasko led as Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Transformation from 2015 through 2018. The peer-reviewed, open access journalzine delivers foremost research in re-imagining healthcare delivery, education, technology, innovation, and discovery. This world-class publication serves as a forum to present visions of the future, debate current models, and provide an invaluable source of optimism for all of us involved in healthcare and the transformation of healthcare. Dr. Klasko now serves as Founding Editor of the Journal and plays a key role as senior advisor to Jon Linkous.
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
Language: English
Online ISSN: 2379-9900
