Product Description: It is essential to understand the important role of convenient care clinics in healthcare, as the number of individuals seeking care continues to grow. This is a wonderful asset for any advanced practice clinician seeking employment in, or considering starting, a convenient care clinic...read more

Product Description: Breakthroughs in medical science and technology, combined with shifts in lifestyle and demographics, have resulted in a rapid rise in the number of individuals living with one or more chronic illnesses.  Comprehensive Care Coordination for Chronically Ill Adults presents thorough demographics on this growing sector, describes models for change, reviews current literature and examines various outcomes...read more

Product Description: Understanding the Behavioral Healthcare Crisis is a necessary book, edited and contributed to by a great variety of authors from academia, government, and industry. The book takes a bold look at what reforms are needed in healthcare and provides specific recommendations...read more

Integrated care is arguably one of the most important developments in the delivery of health care over the last few years. This new approach to health care, roughly defined as the provision of behavioral or mental health care in a way that is more coordinated with the primary medical healthcare setting, has the focused goal of providing a more complete care for the patient. This book focuses on three main content areas. Firstly, the treatment of psychological problems in the context of primary medical care will be addressed in several chapters. Secondly, several chapters address co-morbid psychological factors that play a key role in the effective medical management of physical diseases, either acute or chronic. Finally, several chapters address issues relevant to the overall practice of integrated care. This book is intended to extend and bridge the existing literatures of integrated care, behavioral medicine, consultation-liaison psychiatry, medical cost offset, and healthcare economics, by providing a comprehensive and current handbook of the clinical protocols that might be applied to the practice of integrated care.

Product Description: Book by Medical Group Management Association

Product Description: Stop the red ink! Discover creative models for physician-hospital partnerships that help you cut costs, improve productivity, and provide better quality care. This book includes practical steps for implementation and case studies that illustrate how the models operate...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Gain valuable insights on eight critical integration issues from managers with first-hand experience. This comprehensive collection of case studies from members of the MGMA Integrated Health Practice Society offers valuable advice on physician compensation, expectations and results, governance and leadership, information systems, legal matters, managed care, operations and integration options...read more

Discusses the challenge of change in health care

Product Description: Describes the types of managed care organizations and providers, the forms of provider payment, and managed care contracting. Capitation as a preferred payment mechanism, the need to align financial incentives, risk pools, and Medicare and Medicaid risk arrangements are also discussed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is designed to help health care executives prepare for the current and future challenges of ambulatory care planning, development, and management. It thoroughly examines the trAnds in financing, technology, and consumer demands that are fueling the ambulatory care revolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written for decision makers both inside and outside health care organizations, The Foundations of Integrated Care provides a comprehensive, in-depth discussion of integrated health care delivery and financing systems. In addition to presenting an extensive discussion of Duke University Medical Center & Health System, Satinsky covers: - Key factors for successful system integration - Barriers to successful integration - Legal issues facing integrated delivery system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Behind the media headlines that chronicle the successes--as well as the charges of fraud, abuse, and ethical misconduct--of today's corporate medical giants lies the story of the Wall Street players who are determining the structure of our future health systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This interdisciplinary guide explains the complex structural changes going on in the physician practice industry and explores contemporary issues in physician practice management. Experts in accounting, health administration, law, and economics explain essential methods of delivering physician services and provide workable physician-hospital integration models...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Integrated Community Healthcare shows you strategies to successfully implement, manage and grow your IDS whether you are a hospital, HMO or physician organization. A practical reference tool for practicing executives, managers and anyone concerned with the future of the industry, this book will spur readers to think creatively about their current circumstances and about future alternatives for positioning their organization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From traditional, health-oriented community care to the new era of bottom-line-focused medical treatment, this work presents the dramatic shift in modern US medicine. The implications are explored in a series of dialogues about the most recent changes in managed care, hospital governance, alliances between physicians and managers, and health care ethics: the problems to be solved, the threats that must be met, and the opportunities that lie ahead for those hospitals and physicians who are willing to challenge the status quo...read more

Product Description: Explores the Rise of Managed Care"An incisive and informative analysis of our rapidly changing health care system--the best of current books on the subject."--Arnold S. Relman, former editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine Walter A...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Health Administration

Product Description: This guide offers insight into changes occurring in the health care system than may ultimately have repercussions in behavioural health care and offers advice on dealing with specific managed care initiatives. The goal is for the psychologist to control the decisions that affect patient lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This guide offers insight into changes occurring in the health care system than may ultimately have repercussions in behavioural health care and offers advice on dealing with specific managed care initiatives. The goal is for the psychologist to control the decisions that affect patient lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Covers management functions, decision making, budgeting, facility design, process planning, work measurement, statistical forecasting, quality control, and maintenance (view table of contents)