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To download the PDF, click here. Across the country educators, practitioners, conferences and organizations are using Money-Driven Medicine to better understand the forces shaping health care and why comprehensive policy change is so important. You can join them by convening a screening at your campus, conference, workplace, association, congregation or even your living room.
Viewing Money-Driven Medicine can dispel the many myths about what’s really driving health care costs and quality, paving the way for real reform. The "Professional's Edition" contains four different versions, or "learning modules," of the film enabling you to choose the version most appropriate to your needs, your time, and your audience. In addition, each version is divided into chapters so you can screen the entire film, or choose the segments most appropriate for your audience.
WHERE TO SCREEN THE FILMMoney-Driven Medicine has been designed so it can be used in a wide variety of contexts:
FIVE TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL SCREENING
The answers to the following five questions will help you prepare for a more successful screening of Money-Driven Medicine.
FRAMING YOUR SCREENING: THEMES AND AUDIENCESYou will want to organize your screening around the theme which most concerns your intended audience (for tips on organizing a successful screening, visit our Planning Guide). 1. Comprehensive Health Care Reform Congress is discussing the most important health care legislation in decades. What is really driving the costs and quality of care? Who benefits from the current system? Who’s harmed? And who is paying the lobbyists and PR firms opposing reform? What’s at stake and why is comprehensive change so necessary? Money-Driven Medicine can motivate your members, staff, constituents, chapters, students, co-workers, even neighbors to become active, informed participants in the debate. Our suggestions for how to “Get Involved Now” can turn the enthusiasm generated by your screening into action. 2. What’s Wrong With American Healthcare? The Overview Money-Driven Medicine provides the clearest, most comprehensive analysis of the healthcare industry available on video. It explains clearly and dispassionately why the drive to maximize profits infects the quality, integrity and efficiency of healthcare at every level, driving up costs even as it harms patients.
Doctors, nurses, heath technicians, social workers and health administrators can use Money-Driven Medicine to explain the system they have to work in. Schools of medicine, nursing, public health and social work, as well as allied health programs can use the DVD to orient students to the forces shaping their career choices. Money-Driven Medicine offers an accessible, new on- and off-line teaching tool for professors of policy studies, medical sociology, political science, bio-ethics and medical economics which can provide a broad overview of the economic forces distorting the healthcare sector. 3. The Next Healthcare Challenge: Cost Containment With Quality Care for All Money-Driven Medicine makes clear the difference between rationed care and effective, evidence-based care. It explores the how and why of changing incentives from a fee-for-service to a results-based, accountable care system.
Healthcare providers, their professional associations, hospital administrators, community clinics, insurance companies, labor unions, health economists and public health policy makers can use Money-Driven Medicine to help the public and policy makers understand how evidenced-based and accountable care can both save money and provide better care. 4. Patient-Centered Medicine How has money-driven medicine come between doctors and their patients, harming both? What are the advantages – and challenges – of moving to a care model based on informed, shared decision-making which puts the patient’s needs first? Money-Driven Medicine can introduce patients and practitioners to a new paradigm - patient-centered care, what everyone agrees medicine should be all about but rarely is. The film shows how a collaboration based on listening to, informing and involving patients and their families in medical decisions and treatments can improve health outcomes. Money-Driven Medicine provides an orientation to patient-centered medicine for patient and disease-specific advocacy groups, in-service training and reaccreditation programs, professional conferences and medical and technical schools. 5. Back to Basics: Primary and Preventive Care Why does our system devalue - and underpay - primary care providers? Why is time spent talking with patients less important than high-cost, high-tech, highly specialized procedures and surgeries? Why do we direct more resources to last-minute “rescue” medicine than the consistent health management which could prevent many emergencies? What will it take to recruit more primary care physicians and nurse practitioners?
Money-Driven Medicine can help build a constituency for primary care, returning it to its stature as the frontline of health care. Career planning and counseling programs, patient advocacy groups, community health centers, medical schools and public health departments can use Money-Driven Medicine to convince their clients, staff and students as well as elected officials, boards and policy makers of the value of primary and family care, medical homes, and why these are smart investments. 6. Why and How to Become an Informed Patient The personal stories in Money-Driven Medicine provide powerful, even scary arguments about why it is imperative for patients and their families to become their own advocates, skeptical, and unafraid to ask questions. Money-Driven Medicine can serve as a primer for patients’ safety, rights and advocacy groups ranging from Consumers Union to the American Cancer Society and how and why to become a more informed health care user.
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