Health economics has become an established field of enquiry over recent years and is now an important contributor to normative health policy, and decisions concerning the allocation of resources and the quality of healthcare provision across the world. Medical Economics, written by two physicians who are also qualified economists, introduces readers to the core economic considerations in healthcare provision and management. Addressing concerns that are relevant to both the individual and to pub...
Reigniting the Human Connection
by Jennifer H Mieres, Elizabeth C McCulloch, and Michael P Wright
This 25th Anniversary edition completely updates the powerful insights and policy recommendations of Not What the Doctor Ordered, first published in 1993 by renowned healthcare futurist and medical economist the author. It presents specific solutions to serious problems of cost, quality, access, and outcomes by allowing all Americans to purchase services directly from caregivers who provide an expanding array of medical services at least as well as physicians-at lower cost. Focusing on new rea...
In this original work, Tom Lawry takes readers on a journey of understanding what we learned from fighting a global pandemic and how to apply these learnings to solve healthcare's other big challenges. This book is about empowering clinicians and consumers alike to take control of what is important to them by harnessing the power of AI and the Intelligent Health Revolution to create a sustainable system that focuses on keeping all citizens healthy while caring for them when they are not.
This book attempted to analyze the issues raised by the chronicity of the Covid pandemic and its governance. The author analyses, the information resources mobilized to combat the pandemic in industrialized countries and pays particular attention to the operational mechanism. The analysis sought to clarify the modalities of operation of the crisis system managing, while at the same time looking at the decision-making mechanisms. The main lines of analysis retained are: the piloting and managemen...
Plastics have occupied an important place in the modern medical industry. It has substituted traditional devices and products made of metal, other materials, and ceramics. Over recent years, increased reliance on transparent plastic pharmaceutical and medical products has produced remarkable breakthroughs that improve medical attention delivery and allow it to be more comfortable for the masses to live better and longer lives. The purpose of this handbook is to provide a strategic perspective on...
In patient care, inaccuracy often leads to error: the patient does not receive the right medication, the nurse is mistaken about the patient, the doctor is mistaken about the condition. Human error in care is now a well-known occurrence, and medicine has borrowed many tools from aviation to improve safety, such as simulation training, limitation of working time, use of checklists, and so forth. All these tools contribute to improving human factors in healthcare. Often due to the lack of commun...
Futurescan 2021-2026
by Society for Health Care Strategy & Market Development
This book describes the most effective treatment for the problems that exist in the leadership of hospitals in the UK and discusses the characteristics of top leaders occupying executive hospital board positions. It focuses on the potential adverse effects of dysfunctional leadership.
The Digitization of Healthcare
Combining conceptual, pragmatic and operational approaches, this edited collection addresses the demand for knowledge and understanding of IT in the healthcare sector. With new technology outbreaks, our vision of healthcare has been drastically changed, switching from a ‘traditional’ path to a digitalized one. Providing an overview of the role of IT in the healthcare sector, The Digitization of Healthcare illustrates the potential benefits and challenges for all those involved in delivering care...
Systemisches Krankenhausmanagement (de Gruyter Studium)
by Steffen Flessa
This book grapples with the numerous risks organizations face in order to succeed. These include economic risks, disaster risks, supply-chain risks, regulatory risks, and technology risks, all of which affect organizations in different ways and in varying degrees. Referencing Mahatma Gandhi’s seven unethical behaviors in the business world—wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, religion without sacrific...
Burnout ist out (Fit for Future)
by Maike Mallison and Daniel Harbs
„Depression ist out, Burnout ist in! Depression ist etwas für Verlierer und Versager. Burnout hingegen haben Gewinner-Typen!“ Diese Sichtweise ein und derselben Erkrankung hat sich schleichend in unseren Köpfen verankert, seit Burnout in der ersten Dekade der 2000er Jahre zur neuen Modediagnose wurde. Dieses Buch soll den Blick auf diese Erkrankung weiten und seinen Teil dazu beitragen, sie endlich aus der Ecke des Schweigens heraus zu holen. Denn sowohl die Ursachen als auch die Prävention von...
In dieser Studie wird die Steuerung der Klassifikation therapeutischer Leistungen (KTL) als Qualitätssicherungsinstrument der DRV und die Internationale Klassifikation der Funktionsfähigkeit, Behinderung und Gesundheit (ICF) der WHO erarbeitet. Ein anwendungsorientiertes Konzept zur Steuerung der Klassifikationen wird über den theoretischen und den empirischen Teil dieser Arbeit entwickelt. Anhand von Experteninterviews wurden die empirischen Daten über einen halbstandardisierten Interviewleitfa...
Human Capital and Economic Growth
This edited collection explores the links between human capital (both in the form of health and in the form of education), demographic change, and economic growth. Using empirical as well as theoretical perspectives, the authors investigate several important issues in the context of human capital, namely population ageing, inequality, public policy, and long-term economic development. Ultimately, they demonstrate that the accumulation of human capital is of crucial importance to long-run economi...
Sind Patienten inzwischen Konsumenten? Dieser Frage mit ihren Konsequenzen für die Gesundheitskommunikation geht dieses Fachbuch nach. Einleitend wird das aktuelle Konsumverhalten – als nicht rational handelnder Mensch – allgemein analysiert. Es folgt eine Analyse des Marktes im Gesundheitsbereich und seiner weiteren Entwicklung im Vergleich zum allgemeinen Markt, um entsprechende Analogien festzustellen. Nach einer Darstellung der in den letzten Jahren sich verändernden Patientenrolle werden di...
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch adressiert die Frage nach einer leistungsgerechten Vergütung der Nierenersatztherapie unter Berücksichtigung von Prozesszeiten sowie Material- und Medikamentenkosten. Die Verfahren der Nierenersatztherapie nehmen im Rahmen der Finanzierung stationärer Leistungen eine spezielle Rolle ein. Entsprechende Leistungen sind teilweise als Inhalt der Fallpauschale anzusehen, teilweise jedoch additiv zur Fallpauschale über Zusatzentgelte abzurechnen. Weiterhin zeigt es sic...