Product Description: Features of statistical and operational research methods and tools being used to improve the healthcare industry With a focus on cutting-edge approaches to the quickly growing field of healthcare, Healthcare Analytics: From Data to Knowledge to Healthcare Improvement provides an integrated and comprehensive treatment on recent research advancements in data-driven healthcare analytics in an effort to provide more personalized and smarter healthcare services...read more

Product Description: This is the second book in the series of books that we edit on the Management of Medical Technology (MMT) published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. The fIrst book Managing Technology in Health Care offered a broad-brushed view of the topics involved in the new and exciting area of MMT that we have launched...read more

Product Description: One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading physicians offer an optimistic prognosis...read more

Product Description: The Study Guide contains chapter outlines, review questions, additional Web links, and "You Judge" cases currently being litigated or recently decided, sometimes in conflicting ways, by lower federal and state courts, Congress, and state legislatures...read more

Product Description: One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable...read more

In 1983, the first patient classification system to be used on a national basis, the Diagnosis Relate Groups (DRGs), was adopted as part of the Prospective Payment System in the United States. This system caught the attention of health policy makers in other countries, and a number of them began to implement similar approaches. What motivated them to adopt these systems? What similarities and differences were there among their experiences in implementing these systems? What can we learn about introducing change into national health systems by comparing their experiences? The Globalization of Managerial Innovation in Health Care answers these and other questions by examining patient classification systems in fifteen different countries throughout the world. The result is a remarkable collection of case studies of how change can be introduced effectively into national health systems as well as a careful synthesis of what can be learned from them.

Product Description: The NACDS Foundation and LearnSomething have joined together to help community pharmacies prevent fraud, waste and abuse. This new online training program is designed to help educate and train employees regarding the Federal laws and guidelines related to fraud and abuse...read more

Product Description: Physicians are increasingly taking on new roles as executives and managers in today's health care delivery system. As such, management skills should be an essential part of every physician's repertoire. Physicians who don't possess business skills are less able to provide their patients with the highest levels of clinical care...read more

Product Description: Continuing its superiority in the health care risk management field, The Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations (5th Edition), is written by the key practitioners and consultants in the field. Included are many practical chapters and health care examples than before as well as additional material on methods and techniques of risk reduction and management...read more

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Applying Quality-Assurance MethodsA Report on the National Demonstration Project on Quality Improvement in Health CareThis book is recommAnded for managers wanting to enhance service quality and productivity. By avoiding mistakes and useless units of activity, gains in productivity occur as quality improves.--Healthcare Financial ManagementLearn how health care organizations can use the quality improvement process to help regain control and hope in a time of frustration and skyrocketing costs. In ten key lessons, the authors demonstrate what works and does not work in actual practice. They present case examples of specific health care improvement projects ranging from transport of critically ill infants to quick turnaround of emergency lab specimens and to the generation of accurate Medicare bills.

Product Description: Manager of the Infection Control Department at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Arias explains to others in her position how to apply principles of epidemiology to preventing, tracking, and controlling outbreaks of infectious diseases in health-care institutions...read more

Product Description: This Second Edition Of Our Easy-To-Use Reference Takes A Risk Management Approach To Patient Care Documentation. It Shows Clinicians From A Wide Variety Of Disciplines How To Be Objective, Precise, Unambiguous, And Timely When Documenting Treatment-Related Matters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Despite the constraints and challenges imposed by managed care, many psychodynamic clinicians are finding ways to work successfully within this pervasive type of health care arrangement. This clear, straightforward book shows how...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Move beyond the conventional techniques of measuring patient satisfaction and developing quality improvement plans. Learn how to not only develop consumer loyalty but how to "mine" it-encourage loyal consumers to return value to your organization by volunteering, donating, governing, word-of-mouth advertising, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Of all the recent changes in health care, none more dramatically affected both patients and care providers than managed care. Not only has it altered the way we pay for health care, but also it has compelled a change in the way we approach health care, focusing increasingly on preventive care to reduce costs...read more

Product Description: Healthcare management is a burning issue at the moment and this timely and topical book explores the ethical issues that arise in the context of healthcare management. Among the topics discussed are healthcare rationing, including an exposition and defence of the Qaly criterion of healthcare rationing and an examination of the contribution that ethical theory can make to the rationing debate, an analysis of how managers can be preoccupied with the goals of management and the values of doctors simultaneously, an outline of potential guidelines towards formulating a cohesion of healthcare management and ethical management and a reassessment of the role of healthcare professionals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Giving special attention to the Golden State's national parks and top golf courses, a new edition of a comprehensive guide to California includes expanded coverage of the Wine Country, new maps, and more information on San Diego. Original. 20,000 first printing.

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Critiques the country's current health care system and proposes an alternate plan that will restore quality of care yet maintain patients' privacy and freedom of choice (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This text provides a comprehensive analysis of the utilization of health care resources and issues relevant to nurses and health care personnel. It emphasizes cost-effective approaches to the delivery of health care the nurse's important role in delivering high quality care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)