With over 8,000 nonmedical words, phrases, and acronyms related to the health-care industry, Slee's Health Care Terms is the leading healthcare dictionary available today. Now in its fifth edition, it covers finance & reimbursement, managed care, government regulation, health professionals, legal issues, governance, and more. Written expressly for trustees, and others who need quick, precise information, Slee's tells you what a term means and why you need to know it in today's healthcare environment. It is an essential reference for anyone who deals with the health care industry.

Product Description: Explaining the vocabulary of health care delivery today and the systems, strategies, technologies, policies, laws, concepts, and tools needed to understand the healthy communities movement.

Product Description: This book serves two purposes: (1) it is a comprehensive textbook on disease classification, coding and coding systems, medical records, and the history of health information systems in the U.S., including extensive appendices, bibliography, and index; (2) it exposes serious problems in our national health information "system" and proposes solutions...read more