This book examines the current healthcare system and proposes a Virtual Health Care System. By using technology to formulate new contractual relationships between providers and patients the author proposes a redesign of health care to deliver not just higher quality at less cost but maximum value.

Book Reviews

• Health Law and Policy, A Survival Guide to Medicolegal Issues for Practitioners
• The Double Burden of Malnutrition in Asia: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions (Interventions for Effective Action)
• Everyday Bioethics: Reflections on Bioethical Choices in Daily Life (Policy, Politics, Health, and Medicine Series)
• Culture and the Restructuring of Community Mental Health: (Contributions in Psychology)
• NATURAL DISASTERS: Protecting the Public's Health
• Private Choices, Social Costs, and Public Policy: An Economic Analysis of Public Health Issues
• Health and Social Organization
• Changing Welfare Services: Case Studies of Local Welfare Reform Programs (Haworth Health and Social Policy)
• Public Health in Action: Practicing in the Real World
• U.S. National Health Policy: An Analysis of the Federal Role