Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Administration

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This volume addresses the dynamics of sustainable development in the healthcare industry, covering all major aspects, including R&D, manufacturing, regulation, market access, commercialization, and general management. Healthcare markets are evolving under demographic and economic pressures. In mature markets, patients navigate complex systems with limited control on healthcare quality and outcomes, while in developing markets, patients have limited awareness, access, and ability to pay for healthcare. The industry needs to identify which business targets are genuinely attractive for major...

Imagine being your own boss. Imagine working from home in your sweatpants. Imagine setting your own schedule. Imagine supporting yourself and your family purely by your own effort. In "Code from Home," author Sandra L. Kocsis discusses the ins and outs of starting your own home-based medical billing service.

Based on her personal experience establishing her own at-home business, Kocsis shares detailed information including how to: ? Know if you are interested in this career ? Sell your skills ? Write letters and proposals ? Handle an interview ? Understand coding including diagnosis and...

This 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. This book studies current challenges in health care management from different perspectives. Research articles analyze the situation in the health care sector and present solutions in the following areas: the health care system; hospitals; teams in health care; patients' perspectives; assessment of technologies and innovations; and toolkits...

"Introducing Digital Communications into Your Medical Practice" discusses how electronic medical records and personal health records now digitize patient information and make it accessible for review and easy to update by both doctors and patients. The text emphasizes on how the use of email and the internet will help patients to schedule appointments, access test results and research healthcare options. In addition, topics discussed include stories on how simple everyday telemedicine tools, such as telephones with cameras attached, enable doctors and nurses to carry on conversations with...

This book lays the foundations for the globalization of telerehabilitation procedures, making it possible for rehabilitation service to be delivered anywhere in the world.

Medizinokonomie ist die Anwendung okonomischer Methoden auf die Medizin, insbesondere auf die medizinische Versorgung. Ziel ist die Verbesserung der medizinischen Behandlung, denn die erfolgreiche Behandlung gilt in der Medizin wie in der Medizinokonomie als oberste Maxime professionellen Handelns. Die Komplexitat der medizinischen Versorgung in Deutschland mit ihren zahlreichen Akteuren, unterschiedlichen Zustandigkeitsbereichen und Verflechtungen erfordert viele Regularien und Abstimmungsprozesse, die fur Auenstehende oft nur schwer zu durchschauen sind. Der wissenschaftliche ebenso wie...

Today's health care managers, frequently, were yesterday's technicians, physicians, and nurses. This puts them in an interesting predicament, since they know the health care side of the business but often lack the financial management skills necessary to create budgets and manage finances in a health care setting. In this guide, William J. Ward Jr. offers easy-to-understand explanations of basic accounting concepts, including cash flow, operating cost and cost behavior, revenue and reimbursement, and so much more.

Providing clearly presented financial information in the context of...

This book presents unique management perspectives from Thailand s Healthcare Industry. It focuses on the areas of Personal Knowledge Management, Leadership Styles and Organisational Performance. The book highlights the various business challenges that organisations face in the context of globalisation, which itself has produced new opportunities and difficulties alike. In addition, it also elaborates on how even large organisations with strong histories can no longer compete unless they are willing to adapt to changing conditions. Demonstrating how transferring and encouraging knowledge...