Author Margolis founded the company that is the largest supplier of information technology to the US healthcare insurance industry; he is now the executive chairman of a firm that develops ways to apply social media technology to healthcare. He is also a healthcare consumer with a serious chronic illness. Here, he puts his insider business and patient perspectives to work as he explains the healthcare supply chain in plain language for general readers. He presents his vision of integrated healthcare management, which relies on information technology to lower costs and to improve how the various parts of the healthcare system work together. The author claims that an integrated healthcare management system can be implemented and maintained regardless of which political party is in power and what laws are in effect. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)