Product Description: In this book, Dr. Gabow, former CEO of Denver Health of 20 years, teams up with Philip Goodman, a 34-year veteran of Denver Health who directed the Lean System group, to share their Lean journey. The Lean Prescription: Powerful Medicine for Our Ailing Healthcare System tells the story of how Dr...read more

Product Description: Healthcare economics is a topic of increasing importance due to the substantial changes that are expected to radically alter the way Americans obtain and finance healthcare. Understanding Healthcare Economics: Managing Your Career in an Evolving Healthcare System provides an evidence-based framework to help practitioners comprehend the changes already underway in our nation’s healthcare system...read more

Product Description: Engineering Solutions to America’s Healthcare Challenges covers the technologies, systems, and processes that are emerging in hospitals, clinics, community centers, universities, and the White House to repair healthcare in the United States...read more

Product Description: America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Best Care at Lower Cost explains that inefficiencies, an overwhelming amount of data, and other economic and quality barriers hinder progress in improving health and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness...read more

A primer for the economic analysis of medical markets, this book utilizes a flow of funds approach to investigate the sources and uses of financing as well as the incentives and organizational structure of the health care system. It then takes a wider macroeconomic perspective in order to explore the dynamics of change within the health care system, and to explicitly consider determinants of national health spending and the role of governments in public and private health.

Renowned consultant Alexander Fitzgibbon had made it clear from the start that their relationship was to remain strictly professional. Yet Florence couldn't help but wonder what lay behind his cool, efficient exterior. Could she break down the barrier and reach the man behind it?

Product Description: Medical error as defined in Epidemic of Medical Errors and Hospital-Acquired Infections: Systemic and Social Causes encompasses many categories including, but not limited to, medical error, hospital-acquired infections, medication errors, deaths from misdiagnosis, deaths from infectious diarrhea in nursing homes, surgical and post-operative complications, lethal blood clots in veins, and excessive radiation from CT scans...read more

Product Description: With 150 original color charts and graphs, American Health Economy Illustrated is an attractive, user-friendly, one-of-a-kind resource on the economics of health care in the United States. Covering topics such as 'How Is Each Health Care Dollar Spent?' and 'Who Pays for Health Services?,' this comprehensive, accessible guide will be of interest to everyone concerned about the future of health care in America...read more

Product Description: Essentials of Health Economics takes a timely approach to the study of the public health care system through the lens of economics. With the use of numerous examples and profiles related to the field, students and faculty will be able to grasp the importance and relevance of health economics as well as how it relates to more general analysis of health policy issues...read more

Product Description: This book unveils and demystifies a revolution occurring in health care in the United States and beyond and how it will reform the health care system.• Presents and analyzes important results from extensive research of the retail health care movement • Tables summarize what is in each chapter and provide more detail for the reader• Offers a comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography on the topic of retail healthcar...read more

Considered the "bible" of the managed care industry, this third edition is greatly expanded with 30 new chapters and extensively updated to double file size of the last edition! The Managed Health Care Handbook is a key strategic an operational resource for use in planning and decision-making. It includes first-hand advice from experienced managers on how to succeed in every aspect of managed care: quality management, claims and benefits administration, managing patient demand, as well as risk management, subacute care, physician compensation and much more! This seminal resource is a must for providers, purchasers, and payers for everyone involved in the managed care industry. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Springfield Hospital Center, Sykesville, Maryland. Revision of The New Medical Marketplace: A Physician's Guide to the Health Care Revolution, 1988. Intended as a textbook for medical students. DNLM: Delivery of Health Care - economics - U.S.

Product Description: Springfield Hospital Center, Sykesville, Maryland. Revision of The New Medical Marketplace: A Physician's Guide to the Health Care Revolution, 1988. Intended as a textbook for medical students. DNLM: Delivery of Health Care - economics - U.S.

Product Description: The private health insurance industry, holding more than half the assets of America's banks, is unable to provide nearly 40 million Americans with basic health care. Relying on data from a wide range of publications about this secretive industry, Lawrence D...read more

Product Description: Describes the potential for dramatic change in the health care industry and shows how physicians, hospitals, and health plan providers might plan and manage under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.