The Economics of Health Reconsidered
by Lynn Unruh, Andrew J. Barnes, and Thomas Rice
This series of books focuses on highly specialized Emergency Management arrangements for healthcare facilities and organizations. It is designed to assist any healthcare executive with a body of knowledge which permits a transition into the application of emergency management planning and procedures for healthcare facilities and organizations. This series is intended for both experienced practitioners of both healthcare management and emergency management, and also for students of these two di...
Information Technology in Medical Diagnostics III
The science of biomedical measurements is experiencing a period of rapid development. Biomedical measuring systems are becoming increasingly accurate on the one hand and complex on the other. In order to make progress in this field, metrological problems must be solved using a systemic and formal approach. To this end, it is necessary to define the components of the system and the rules for their interaction, which allows the creation of a mathematical model. In this way, any technology or objec...
"This book bridges the fields of health care and data to clarify how to use data to manage pandemics. Written while COVID-19 was raging, it identifies both effective practices and misfires, and is grounded in clear, research-based explanations of pandemics and data strategy....The author has written an essential book for students and professionals in both health care and data. While serving the needs of academics and experts, the book is accessible for the general reader." - Eileen Forrester,...
Want a Career in the Healthcare Industry? (Healthcare Industry Excellence, #1)
by Peter Kruse MD
Communities of Influence
by Alison Donaldson, Elizabeth Lank, Jane Maher, and Muir Gray
Dedicated and hard-working staff at all levels of large healthcare organisations can be frustrated by a perceived inability to influence healthcare priorities. One way of enabling such practitioners to shape and improve services is to bring them together in 'communities of influence'. These are informal groups or networks of committed people who meet regularly to share experiences, develop a collective voice and influence policy and practice at local and national levels. Such 'bottom-up' approac...
Handbook of Theory and Methods in Applied Health Research
by Catherine Walshe and Sarah Brearley
This Handbook expertly instructs the reader on how to conduct applied health research across a number of disciplines. Particularly aimed at postgraduate health researchers and students of applied health research, it presents and explains a wide range of research designs and other contemporary issues in applied health research. Focusing on learning outcomes, it takes the reader from underpinning epistemological, ontological and methodological considerations through to the key features of highli...
Interdisciplinary Studies on Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment
“A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, and a devastating portrait of the ways our society fails to protect the bodies of its most vulnerable members.” —Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award What’s Wrong? is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher Erin Williams’s graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts,...
Krankenkassen im Wandel (NPO-Management)
An ideal entry point into health economics for everyone from aspiring economists to healthcare professionals. The economics of healthcare are messy. For most consumers, there’s little control over costs or services. Sometimes doctors are paid a lot; other times they aren’t paid at all. Insurance and drug companies are evil, except when they’re not. If economics is the study of market efficiency, how do we make sense of this? Better Health Economics is a warts-and-all introduction to a field...
Disruptive Innovation through Digital Transformation
by Xue Han, Yuanyuan Wu, and Jie Zheng
The book addresses the prevalent digital transformation and focuses on its significant disruption in healthcare. In light of the distinctive characteristics and evolution of the Chinese healthcare industry, private multi-sided platform (MSP) companies emerge to offer novel values and explore the industry value chain. Drawing on the management and economics literature of MSPs, this book examines the selected Chinese MSPs and compares them with the counterpart MSPs in the U.S. This analysis highli...
This publication presents a study on the availability and provision of long-term care (LTC) in Sri Lanka. It discusses findings from the analysis and offers recommendations for the development of LTC systems in the country. Contributing to the development of an in-depth knowledge base on LTC, the publication explores the need for and supply of care, regulatory and policy frameworks, service provision, quality management, human resources, and financing. It is one of six country diagnostic studie...
This volume analyzes group purchasing organizations (GPOs) and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in order to better understand the significant roles that these entities play in the healthcare supply chain. It examines who they contract with, on what terms, and who they represent and answer to while charting their historical development. The analysis reveals that the current roles of both players have historical roots that explain why they behave the way they do. Finally, the book reviews the evid...
Care at the End of Life
This work carefully guides the reader through the methodological, policy and ethical challenges facing health economists conducting research in palliative care. It has collected the opinions of many cutting-edge researchers. Those who design and conduct economic evaluations or economics-related research in end of life populations will find this book thought provoking, instructive and informative. The provision of care to individuals with disorders associated with advancing age, such as cancer...
By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.
Die wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen für Krankenhäuser werden anspruchsvoller. Eine qualitativ hochwertige medizinische Versorgung müssen die Verantwortlichen aber weiterhin gewährleisten. Dass dies mit geschicktem Management durchaus möglich ist, zeigen die Beispiele in diesem Buch. Die Stellhebel, die Klinik-Managern generell zur Verfügung stehen, um die Leistungs- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ihrer Häuser zu verbessern und sie „fit für die Zukunft“ zu machen, werden in kompakter Form dargelegt....
Das Buch richtet sich insbesondere an Führungskräfte, welche sich leicht umsetzungsfähige Hilfen und anregende Inspirationen für Veränderungsprojekte innerhalb ihres Tätigkeitsbereichs wünschen. Eine intensive und zeitaufwendige Aufbereitung der Grundlagenwerke zum Thema Change Management und Wirtschaftspsychologie soll der Zielgruppe bei knappen Ressourcen im Arbeitsalltag erspart bleiben. Ziel der Autoren ist es, den interessierten LeserInnen eine Wissensquelle zu bieten, die sowohl als prakt...
Systemimmanente Anreize im Pauschalierenden Entgeltsystem Psychiatrie und Psychosomatik (PEPP) (Controlling Im Krankenhaus)
by Hannes Horter, Martin Driessen, and Winfried Zapp
Dieses Fachbuch analysiert die Probleme, Risiken und Anreize des PEPP-Systems (Version 2015) anhand der Behandlung der Alkoholabhängigkeit. Dafür wurden über 1.300 Fälle des Evangelischen Krankenhauses Bielefeld aus dem Jahr 2014 verwendet. Zunächst wurden Fallgruppen erstellt für die Gruppen dann Parameter wie Verweildauer (VWD), PEPP-Kodierung, Erlöseinbußen durch Fallzusammenführungen und Fallerlöse ausgewertet. Ergänzend zu diesen Daten wurden Veränderungen der VWD, der Kodierung und zusätz...
Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry traces the discovery and development of drugs in Japan and the UK both historically and sociologically. It includes sixteen case studies of major pharmaceutical developments in the twentieth century, encompassing, amongst others, beta-blockers, beta-stimulants, inhaled steroids and histamine H2-antagonists. The book illustrates that the four stages of drug development - namely compound, application, organisational authorisation and market - are interact...
Sie sind aktiv in der betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung und stehen vor der Herausforderung, dass Ihre Maßnahmen Ihre Zielgruppe nicht im gewünschten Maße erreichen? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das richtige für Sie!Es bietet Ihnen einen schnellen Einstieg in das Thema Nudging zur Gesundheitsförderung am Arbeitsplatz. Sie erfahren die verhaltenswissenschaftlichen Hintergründe und Theorien des Nudgings und lernen anschaulich, wie Sie dieses erfolgreich zur Gesundheitsförderung einsetzen können. Sie...