First published as Partners for the Dance by Health Administration Press, in 1995. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

This is a reprint of a previously published work. It deals with evaluation of health care services--strategies and techniques for measuring effectiveness, efficiency, improvement etc.

Healthcare faces unprecedented global challenges. Rapid advances in genomics, computational sciences, and technology -- as well as the new focus on value-based care and an increased trend toward healthcare commercialization -- represent disruptive changes to an already-fragmented delivery system. The healthcare establishment has been slow to adapt, and now faces rising cancer-care costs and lags in outcome improvement and genomically informed interventions.

Managing Disruptive Change in Healthcare codifies the US National Cancer Institute's lessons from utilizing a public-private...