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Building a Unified American Health Care System by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Financial and political pressures on our health care system have negatively impacted individual care and the health system as a whole, an issue that has only become more acute because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gilead I Lancaster, MD, lays out a blueprint for comprehensive health care reform, proposing a unified system run by health care professionals--not politicians or commercial health insurance companies--that offers universal coverage and access.
How Health Care Can Be Cost-Effective and Fair by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Methods designed to guide the allocation of healthcare so as to maximize population health have been criticized as fundamentally unfair. In a closer analysis of this ethical critique of the use of cost-effectiveness author Daniel M. Hausman responds to the main complaints about the unfairnessof cost-effectiveness, while also recognizing that there should be other factors--especially in cases of discrimination--guiding health-related treatment.Black Health by
Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Why do American Black people generally have worse health than American White people? A genuine investigation into the status of Black people's health requires us to acknowledge that race has always been a powerful social category that gives access to the resources we need for health and wellbeing to some people, while withholding them from other people.
Healthcare Innovation Success : Learning from Organisational Experience by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023The role of leadership in driving innovation through its different stages is fully explored in this book to enable clinical leaders and managers to design innovation frameworks.
Healthcare Management: Managed Care Organisations and Instruments by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019Experts assume that up to 20% of healthcare expenses can be saved by applying high-quality managed care approaches. By using suitable organisational forms and management principles, not only can costs be reduced, but the quality of medical service provision can be augmented. Managed care is therefore much more than a cost-cutting strategy. The goal of this book is to offer a systematic overview of the organisational forms and management instruments implemented in managed care.
Doing Harm by Location: Pardee Stacks RA564.85 .D88 2018Publication Date: 2018Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today. Doing Harm is a rallying wake-up call that will change the way we look at health care for women.
The Myths of Health Care: Towards New Models of Leadership and Management in the Healthcare Sector by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018This provocative appraisal unpacks commonly held beliefs about healthcare management and replaces them with practical strategies and realistic policy goals. Using Henry Mintzberg's "Myths of Healthcare" as a springboard, it reveals management practices that undermine care delivery, explores their cultural and corporate origins, and details how they may be reversed through changes in management strategy, organization, scale, and style.
Intangibles by Location: Pardee Stacks RA971 .K26 2018Publication Date: 2018As a leader, is it possible to be both successful and humble? Studies show that today’s emerging leaders not only prioritize achievement over humility but also see the two as mutually exclusive. Does this signal an existential crisis for healthcare—an industry that, at its essence, is supposed to embody humility and compassion? Thankfully, no, according to Intangibles, which demonstrates that you can embrace humility and still be excellent at your job.
Who's Buying Health Care by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2015Based on unpublished data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2012 Consumer Expenditure Survey-you can't get these data online. It examines how much Americans spend out-of-pocket on health care by the demographics that count: age, income, high-income households, household type, race and Hispanic origin, region of residence, and education.
Handbook of Healthcare Management by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2015A comprehensive examination of key management practices for global healthcare organizations, arguing that insight into and implementation of these practices is essential for success and sustainability. Expert contributors analyze both existing methods and new developments in healthcare management, through topics including healthcare marketing and customer service, managing human resources and organizational stakeholders, strategic and business planning, high-reliability organizations, and health informatics.
Challenges and Opportunities in Health Care Management by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2014This contributed volume draws a vital picture of the health care sector, which, like no other is affected by technology push and stakeholder pull. Innovative product and service solutions emerge, which have to integrate different stakeholders' interests.
Population Health Management in Health Care Organizations by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2014The mission of healthcare organizations has undergone a remarkable transformation from curing disease to caring for the well-being of populations. Volume 16 of AHCM presents papers that explore this topic across various levels of the healthcare system and employing multiple research designs including case studies, theoretical pieces, secondary data analyses, survey research and qualitative methodologies.
Healthcare Valuation, the Financial Appraisal of Enterprises, Assets, and Services by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2014A timely look at the healthcare valuation process in an era of dynamic healthcare reform, including theory, methodology, and professional standards. A comprehensive treatise of valuation issues in the healthcare field including trends of compensation and reimbursement, technology and intellectual property, and newly emerging healthcare entities.
Ethics and Values in Health Care Management by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2013Healthcare 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. Provides a valuable and much needed analysis of the ethical problems associated with healthcare management and offers some solutions towards ameliorationg healthcare organisations.
Health Information Systems Technological and Management Perspectives by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This heavily revised open access edition provides a thorough overview of the technologies available to assemble, manage and assess the quality of health information systems.A detailed overview of how information systems in health care can be managed and is a vital resource for medical informatics students seeking an up-to-date text on the topic.
Pandemic and the Critical Role of Knowledge Management by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023COVID-19 has been one of the worst pandemics of the century due to its high contagiousness emerging like a Black Swan phenomenon, which created crises worldwide in the health systems, economies, financial systems, retail markets, tourism, and hospitality industries, educational systems, and employment. This book comprises twenty chapters covering the critical role of knowledge management during COVID-19 pandemics.
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This book aims to provide physicians and scientists with the basics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with a special focus on medical imaging. The contents of the book provide an introduction to the main topics of artificial intelligence currently applied on medical image analysis.
Evaluation Methods in Biomedical and Health Informatics by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022This 3rd edition of Evaluation Methods in Biomedical and Health Informatics has been extensively revised and expanded. It builds on a solid foundation of evaluation theory to explain methods and techniques within health informatics, using many examples, real-world case studies and numerous self-tests with answers.
Recent Developments in Smart Healthcare by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018Medicine is undergoing a sector-wide transformation thanks to the advances in computing and networking technologies. In this special issue, we received a total 45 submissions and accepted 19 outstanding papers that roughly span across several interesting topics on smart healthcare, including public health, health information technology (Health IT), and smart medicine.
Informatics Empowers Healthcare Transformation by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2017Biomedical Informatics is now indispensible in modern healthcare, and the field covers a very broad spectrum of research and application outcomes, ranging from cell to population, and including a number of technologies such as imaging, sensors, and biomedical equipment, as well as management and organizational subjects. This book presents 65 full papers and two keynote speeches from the 2017 edition of the International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare (ICIMTH 2017).
Health Information by Location: Alumni Medical Stacks W26 H434 2016Publication Date: 2016Uncover the latest information you need to know when entering the growing health information management job market with Health Information: Management of a Strategic Resource, 5th Edition. Following the AHIMA standards for education for both two-year HIT programs and four-year HIA programs, this new edition boasts dynamic, state-of-the-art coverage of health information management, the deployment of information technology, and the role of the HIM professional in the development of the electronic health record.
Electronic Health Records and Medical Big Data by Location: Fineman and Pappas Law Libraries Stacks KF3827.R4 H64 2016Publication Date: 2016This book helps readers gain an in-depth understanding of electronic health record (EHR) systems, medical big data, and the regulations that govern them. It analyzes both the shortcomings and benefits of EHR systems, exploring the law's response to the creation of these systems, highlighting gaps in the current legal framework, and developing detailed recommendations for regulatory, policy, and technological improvements.
Advances in Healthcare Informatics and Analytics by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2015This important new volume presents recent research in healthcare information technology and analytics. Individual chapters look at such issues as the impact of technology failure on electronic prescribing behavior in primary care; attitudes toward electronic health records; a latent growth modeling approach to understanding lifestyle decisions based on patient historical data; designing an integrated surgical care delivery system using axiomatic design and petri net modeling; and failure in a dynamic decision environment, particularly in treating patients with a chronic disease.
Practitioner's Guide to Health Informatics by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2015This book provides care providers and other non-technical readers with a broad, practical overview of the changing US healthcare system and the contemporary health informatics systems and tools that are increasingly critical to its new financial and clinical care paradigms.
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Health Policy Issues: an Economic Perspective, Eighth Edition by Location: Fineman and Pappas Law Libraries Stacks RA410.53 .F455 2023Publication Date: 2023Health Policy Issues: An Economic Perspective uses concise, topical chapters to provide a comprehensive overview of the forces influencing healthcare financing and delivery. Concerns over health equity and the rise in healthcare costs are just a few of the timely and vital issues that are discussed through the lens of economics.
We've Got You Covered by Location: Fineman and Pappas Law Libraries Stacks RA412.2 .E36 2023Publication Date: 2023Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or building in piecemeal additions. It's time to tear it all down and rebuild, sensibly and deliberately.White market drugs : big pharma and the hidden history of addiction in America by
Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Herzberg explores these crises and the drugs that fueled them, from Bayer’s Heroin to Purdue’s OxyContin and all the drugs in between: barbiturate “goof balls,” amphetamine “thrill pills,” the “love drug” Quaalude, and more.Normalizing an American right to health by
Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023'Normalizing an American Right to Health' argues against the conventional wisdom that a US right to health is out of reach. It shows that the necessary change is not extraordinary but familiar and that the law has already laid considerable groundwork in ordinary statutes and case law. The book moves from the descriptive task of showing where a right to health already exists in our legal corpus to the prescriptive goal of showing how we could feasibly and meaningfully expand the right through ordinary policies that are widely used in other domains, including impact assessments and state-sponsored reinsurance.
Hospital City, Health Care Nation by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and academic medical centers, the book argues that the country's high level of health care spending has allowed such institutions to become vital, if often problematic, economic anchors for communities.
US Health Policy and Health Care Delivery by Location: Pardee Stacks RA418.3.U6 A64 2018Publication Date: 2018The unique composition and configuration of doctors and hospitals in the US is leading to a crisis in primary care provision. This book explains how the US healthcare system developed, and why efforts to expand insurance coverage in the absence of significant changes to delivery will fuel higher costs without achieving the desired results.
Fragmented Democracy by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018Medicaid is an intergovernmental program that yokes poverty to federalism: the federal government determines its broad contours, while states have tremendous discretion over how Medicaid is designed and implemented. This book examines American democracy from the vantage point(s) of those who are living in or near poverty, (disproportionately) Black or Latino, and reliant on a federated government for vital resources.
Governing Health by Location: Pardee Stacks RA395.A3 W45 2012Publication Date: 2019How do government and private interests shape the health policy process? Under the Obama administration, the federal government took a broadened role in setting health policy and insurance regulations. But the succeeding Trump administration and a Republican congress threatened to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its core tenets. Chronicling these recent important changes, Governing Health explores the political science theory behind this and other major shifts in national health policy.
A New Era in U. S. Health Care by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2013A New Era in U.S. Health Care demystifies the Affordable Care Act for unfamiliar readers, setting an agenda for lawmakers and the health industry alike. It focuses on four key issues that will determine the success of this 2010 legislation: the use of state-run Medicaid programs to expand access to insurance; the implementation process; the creation of health insurance exchanges; and the introduction of a new organizational form, accountable care organizations.
Global Health Essentials by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This practical and handy textbook offers a succinct yet comprehensive overview of the main challenges, issues and solutions in global health in relation to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030 agenda. Pragmatic and reader-friendly, it will further be a valuable tool for policymakers, program implementers and those wishing to build knowledge on the meaning, principles and practices of global health.
World Compendium of Healthcare Facilities and Nonprofit Organizations by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021World Compendium of Healthcare Facilities and Nonprofit Organizations is the most comprehensive index of critical information on healthcare facilities and nonprofits in 72 low and lower-middle-income countries as classified by the World Bank. Presented in an easily accessible format and organized in 72 country chapters, the compendium allows stakeholders to better identify where healthcare services are available and where additional resources are needed.
Healthcare and Disease Burden in Africa by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This open access book evaluates African healthcare systems from multiple perspectives. By examining empirical data from various African countries, it analyzes the effects of socioeconomic factors such as urbanization, population growth, and education on various health indicators, including the situation of health professionals, patients's decision making, health resource distribution, mortality rates, and the burden of disease.
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