NEW YORK, Feb. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Not
Just In Sickness But Also In Health: Moving Beyond Sickcare To
Health Optimization For All by Jeff
Margolis, Welltok Inc.'s Chairman and a senior advisor for
Blackstone, is available now. The book is published with
ForbesBooks, the exclusive business book publishing imprint of
Forbes.
In Not Just In Sickness But Also In Health, Jeff Margolis examines our healthcare system
from a perspective of total consumer well-being. He advocates for a
healthcare approach that supports and engages consumers in their
daily living, with a personalized approach based upon their social
determinants, to help each individual achieve and sustain their
highest health status. This is how individuals and populations will
achieve their best health at the lowest cost across the entire
economic spectrum.
The central theme in Margolis' book, Not Just In Sickness But
Also In Health, is based on the recognition that clinical care
accounts for only a fraction of what drives an individual's health
status, with most people spending less than 1% of time face-to-face
with a clinician. This means that the choices patients make during
the time they aren't in a doctor's office or interacting with a
physician accounts for an overwhelming majority of their overall
health status. As Not Just In Sickness But Also In Health
unfolds, readers are guided through Margolis' in-depth diagnosis of
today's reactive sickcare system, one that by predominantly
treating patient ailments exerts undue strain and avoidable cost on
all stakeholders.
Importantly, Margolis' vision of healthcare's future does not
depend on demolishing the existing system, but rather provides a
path to carry forward its existing strength into a transformed
system of optimized health. "We need to apply common sense and
breakthrough systematic understanding if we hope to evolve past the
complex conundrum that is the healthcare system today," Margolis
noted. "What if we shifted our norm from health benefits primarily
designed to take care of people once they are sick to creating
personalized health improvement resources that help people take
actions that elevate their health across the whole of their
lives?"
Not Just In Sickness But Also In Health: Moving Beyond
Sickcare To Health Optimization For All is available on
Amazon today.
About Jeff
Margolis
Jeff Margolis
is Chairman of Welltok, the consumer activation company, and
recently joined Blackstone as a senior advisor to guide
investments and advance innovations in healthcare and information
technology. He also serves on the boards of Alignment Healthcare,
NextGen Healthcare and TriNetX.
Margolis has spent more than 35 years applying systems science
and advanced information technologies to address the complex
problems facing the healthcare industry. Margolis has decades of
experience in public and private healthcare information technology
companies, where he has served as a CEO and Chairman. In 1997, he
founded TriZetto, a pioneering vertical SaaS enterprise solution.
Margolis saw the company through its IPO and eventual $1.4 billion private equity buyout.
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