Straub and Walzer have assembled a well-balanced collection of articles by experts in the field of health care, beginning with two which explore the changing populations and economies of rural areas. Successive chapters explain issues such as recent developments in home patient care, cost-saving innovations, and the pros and cons of rural HMOs. Of special note are those essays which project the future of health care and provide alternative approaches to health care services such as the viability...
First published in 1908, this book presents a study of tuberculosis. It looks first at its causes, before examining how the problem of mortality from illness had already been reduced. The third part of the book then focuses on measures for reducing and annihilating tuberculosis altogether. Being written in the earlier years of the twentieth century, the book will not only be of interest to medical students and practitioners, but also to historians.
Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century (HIMSS Book)
by Charlotte Weaver, Patrick Weber, and Robyn Carr
Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century is the follow-up to the highly successful, award-winning first edition. Published in 2006, the first edition was a critical resource in chronicling the huge historical shift in nursing linked to the explosion of EHR national strategies and health policies around the globe. This updated edition, co-published by AMIA, examines the revolution that has occurred in nursing and explores the role IT is playing in this transformation, with a thoughtful examin...
During this era of continuous improvement, healthcare organizations need to be staffed by engaged, motivated, and hard-working frontline employees. As these clinical and non-clinical personnel handle most of the important tasks in any organization and are often the people who directly interact with patients and customers, it's the job of managers to oversee and motivate their staff members. Using Lean management strategies, this easy-to-read book for leaders and managers provides useful, insight...
Elektronisches Publizieren
by Ulrich Riehm, Knud Bhle, Ingrid Gabel-Becker, Bernd Wingert, Knud Bahle, and Knud Bohle
Das aus einem interdisziplinaren empirischen Forschungs- projekt hervorgegangene Buch behandelt umfassend den gegenwartigen Stand der Anwendung, die Entwicklungstendenzen und die gesellschaftlichen Folgen des Elektronischen Publizierens in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland."
Critical Path Development Guide
by Deborah K. Wall and Mitchell M. Proyect
As healthcare moves from volume to value, payment models and delivery systems will need to change their focus from the individual patient to a population orientation. This will move our economic model from that of a "sick system" to a system of care focused on prevention, boosting patient engagement, and reducing medical expenditures. This new focus will shift traditional financial accountability from the payer model to provider directed models.Population Health: An Implementation Guide to Impro...
Capturing Value in Digital Health Eco-Systems
by Felix Lena Stephanie and Ravi S Sharma
The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals call for the establishment of Good Health and Well-being and target a universal digital healthcare ecosystem by 2030. However, existing technology infrastructure is ineffectual in achieving the envisioned target and requires massive reconfiguration to achieve its intended outcome. This book suggests a way forward with fair and efficient digital health networks that provide resource efficiencies and inclusive access to those who are currently unde...
Demystifying the Business of Medicine in Your Practice (Smarter Physician, #1)
by Bhagwan Satiani
"A resource for medical practice administrators and physicians, the book covers the building blocks necessary to understand the business of a medical practice. The book also includes some of the of vital legal and compliance issues that medical practices must understand"--Provided by publisher.
Instead of building new hospitals that import old systems and problems, the time has come to reexamine many of our ideas about what a hospital should be. Can a building foster continuous improvement? How can we design it to be flexible and useful well into the future? How can we do more with less? Winner of a 2013 Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence! Answering these questions and more, Lean-Led Hospital Design: Creating the Efficient Hospital of the Future explains how hospitals can be built...
Revolutionizing Digital Healthcare Through Blockchain Technology Applications
In naher Zukunft regiert der Roboter im OP, erscheint der Patient im Double als Hologramm, kommen Ersatzorgane aus dem Drucker, uberwachen Gesundheits-Apps Gesunde wie Kranke, werden Nanokapseln als Medizin durch den Koerper geschleust - was sich wie Fiction anhoert, steht unmittelbar vor der Realisierung. Vieles davon ist bereits moeglich, wartet auf den flachendeckenden Einsatz. Die Digitalisierung im Verbund mit einer Reihe weiterer neuer Technologien wird innerhalb weniger Jahre Medizin, Med...
Value-Based Health Care Linking Finance and Quality Yosef D. Dlugacz Value-Based Health Care? Value-Based Health Care?concisely explains the mandate to successfully link health care quality and finance and describes the tools to implement strategies for organizational success. Yosef Dlugacz provides many illustrative real-world examples of process and outcomes of the value-based approach, taken from a wide range of health care settings. Perfect for students preparing to enter health care managem...
Basics Management Voor Medici (Medicus & Management)
by P Wijnsma, J J L Kimpen, and C C Van Beek
How do people cope with having "caused" a terrible accident? How do they cope when they survive and have to live with the consequences ever after? We tend to blame and forget professionals who cause incidents and accidents, but they are victims too. They are second victims whose experiences of an incident or adverse event can be as traumatic as that of the first victims. Yet information on second victimhood and its relationship to safety, about what is known and what organizations might need to...
Java for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications
by Harshawardhan Bal and Johnny Hujol
Breakthrough Leadership
by Mara Minerva Melum, Mara M Melum, and Casey Collett
With the same clarity that made the previous edition a bestseller, Healthcare Delivery in the U.S.A.: An Introduction, Second Edition provides readers with the understanding required to navigate the healthcare provider field. Brilliantly simple, yet comprehensive, this updated edition explains how recent health care reform will impact hospitals and health systems. It includes updated case studies and describes the new organizational structures being driven by current market conditions.Focusing o...
Financial Report of the Hospital Industry
by William O Cleverley, PH.D., CPA