MobiHealth News April 30, 2019
In Jane Sarasohn-Kahn’s new book, she argues that we must make the move from health consumers to health citizens.
When we talk about health consumerism or the consumerization of health, the topic encompasses a lot of disparate ideas. In her new book Health Consuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, a health economist with a 30-year background in the space, seeks to tie those ideas into one cohesive narrative — and to follow that narrative to see where it leads into our future.
The first idea is simply that patients are increasingly becoming consumers because they have an increasing responsibility for the cost of their care.
“The reality is the patient is forced to be a consumer with...
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