Product Description: This book reveals a comprehensive strategy to reduce high and rising medical costs. The author provides a simpler and more complete understanding of how complex medical systems work than past efforts. While others provide partial, superficial solutions, which mainly focus mainly on financial issues, this book re-examines the underlying foundations of modern medicine...read more

Product Description: This book reveals a comprehensive strategy to reduce high and rising medical costs. The author provides a simpler and more complete understanding of how complex medical systems work than past efforts. While others provide partial, superficial solutions, which mainly focus mainly on financial issues, this book re-examines the underlying foundations of modern medicine...read more

Product Description: What differentiates this book from other healthcare improvement books is that it is the only currently available book that presents a simple recipe of 46 lean steps for healthcare providers to reduce cost and improve quality. By taking these straightforward steps, healthcare providers can adopt the same lean methods which have enabled companies like Toyota to become so successful...read more

Product Description: We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater...read more

Product Description: 'This book will awaken everyone's consciousness to HMO atrocities on human life and human dignity.''US HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS OF PA (HMO OF PA) cuts costs ...and lives: Antoinette Fiorella, Virginia Rathgeb, Donna Marie Bonner, Magdalena Dorothea Connery, Marilyn McCllelan, Chardella Boyd...read more

Product Description: Addresses the serious problem of rising health care costs. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A revised and updated edition of the best-selling introduction to Islam written by one of the foremost scholars in the field. 'Ideals and Realities of Islam' seeks to answer criticism brought against Islam by presenting the point of view of Islam. In six chapters dealing with the universal and the particular aspects of Islam, the Qur'an, the Prophet and the Prophetic tradition, the 'Shari'a', Sufism, and Shi'ism, Seyyed Hossein Nasr outlines the essential aspects of the Islamic beliefs, making frequent references to other religions in general and Christianity in particular. Drawing mainly on the Qur'an and the 'hadith', but also on the works of some contemporary Western scholars, the author presents the Islamic spiritual and intellectual tradition in the light of contemporary modern thought. This edition includes a new introduction by the author and an updated annotated bibliography.

Product Description: Discover The Six Dimensions of Health Systems That Can Transform Your Medical Practice The New Health Partners is an essential handbook for physicians who want to reshape their practices to prosper within the managed care environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This practical resource explores demand management and the impact that informational technology and patient empowerment has for providers wh o are restructuring to meet new market pressures. A systematic method for implementation of demand management strategies is included.

Product Description: Getting the most out of a doctor's visit, finding the best medications, and avoiding unnecessary medical procedures are only some of the topics covered in The Savvy Medical Consumer. This revised edition includes the latest information plus a new chapter on managed care.

Product Description: This text is designed to provide the physician with a working knowledge of disease management. Providers and managed care organizations are expected to deliver high quality care to defined populations efficiently, therefore knowledge of disease management is crucial...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Value-Based Cost Management for Healthcare gives healthcare professionals a framework for linking quality, costs, processes, and outcomes. The framework is based on identifying and measuring value. This framework is made actionable in a continuous improvement cycle system, which incorporates three proven, innovative financial tools - activity-based costing, value-added analysis, and cost-of-quality analysis...read more

Product Description: Armed with statistics and research diligently recorded, the “Evil Empire” of the disease care industry is exposed, and its pitfalls and gauntlets are unveiled to the countless number of helpless patients. This book is an eye-opener, and a treasury of knowledge when confronting a distant and greedy kingdom...read more

Product Description: A health care system, radically altered through the skillful application of process quality control, can save the nation billions of dollars a year in health care costs. To health care purchasers, this can mean significant quality and cost improvements...read more

Suggests long-term solutions for spiraling health care costs, focusing on shared problem solving that distributes the costs equitably among insurance carriers, health care providers, and consumers

Product Description: Quality Assurance and Cost Containment in Healthcare