How hard is it to change the health care industry? As you'll see in Hope for Health, it can be extremely difficult -- and also extremely quick. While not all changes last (and not all changes should), innovation is at the heart of what makes the industry run the way it does. Electronic patient charts, mobile care units, and even improved tools such as self-plunging syringes all serve to streamline and improve the health care experience.

There are about 145 million ER visits each year in the United States alone. 42% of all people in the US visit the ER once and 20% go more than one time. The average time spent is 2 hours. Imagine you're one of them. What feedback would you give?

Author Jacob Schupp peels back the many layers of the health care industry to open our eyes to the types of changes possible. He uses what he calls the "5 Ps of Health Care" -- Purchasers, Payers, Policy Makers, Providers, Patients -- to breakdown what types of ripples innovations cause across the industry so we can better understand their intersections and thus improve the health care machine. If you've got an interest in what's going on in the health care industry, Hope for Health is for you!