How can we bring more care into health care?
The Next Tango - A Patient Guide is a must-read manual for anyone looking to transform the health care landscape, whether you're a patient, provider, policymaker, pharmaceutical leader, or payer. With insights from experts this book explores:
Blending personal stories with evidence-based insights, The Next Tango offers a collaborative fresh perspective on re-imagining health care systems.
Praise for The Next Tango
"Essential reading for patients and professionals. This book offers clarity, insight, and a bold re-imagining of health care."
- Andrea Austin, MD, Author of Revitalized: A Guidebook to Following Your Healing Heartline
"I love this book! A clear agenda for change that creates a meaningful and productive dance for everyone in health care."
- Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA, Author of Feelin' Alright: How the Message in the Music Can Make Healthcare Healthier
Editors Hanna Boëthius and Verena Voelter, MD combine decades of expertise to empower readers to help transform health care into a more caring system.
Ready to dance?
"This book is essential for patients and healthcare professionals. Dr Verena Voelter and Hanna Boëthius reimagine healthcare with clarity, weaving patient stories with data-driven research. As an ER doctor, I dread navigating this system as a patient. This book is a vital guide to real solutions. Amid today's challenges, their hopeful vision is exactly what we need."
Andrea Austin, MD
"Verena and Hanna's focus on patient-centered partnerships is spot on. Only a well-coordinated dance between pharma, payers, policymakers, professionals, and patients can shift reactive care into proactive, predictive, and preventive systems. The vast health data, combined with advanced analytics, provide the rhythm for this dance."
Ann Aerts, MD
"The Next Tango inspires with real-world examples of patient-centered care. It highlights how misaligned business models fail patients-yet their purpose should be value creation. For those in healthcare strategy, it reveals opportunities to build sustainable, impactful solutions."
Prof. Dr. Ana Paula Beck da Silva Etges
Hanna Boëthius, MSc, is a patient empowerment consultant and expert leader with a lifelong experience of type 1 diabetes. She is dedicated to helping others live healthier lives through education and advocacy, with a focus on self-care and health literacy. Verena Voelter, MD, is a trained internist-oncologist, author, and founder of 5P Health Care Solutions. A champion for public-private partnerships in healthcare, she specializes in creating collaborative frameworks that center on patient outcomes.
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