Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Administration

This title deals with internationally documented variations in medical practice and health service that exist across countries as well as regions across a specific country. Such variations raise critical concerns about the quality, equity and efficiency of health care resources across the world. Health services researchers have long been aware of large variations in the use of medical care across regions and medical providers. In the 1930s, the British pediatrician J.A. Glover observed that the rates of tonsillectomy in British schoolchildren varied...

At the intersection of computer science and healthcare, data analytics has emerged as a promising tool for solving problems across many healthcare-related disciplines. Supplying a comprehensive overview of recent healthcare analytics research, Healthcare Data Analytics provides a clear understanding of the analytical techniques currently available to solve healthcare problems.
The book details novel techniques for acquiring, handling, retrieving, and making best use of healthcare data. It analyzes recent developments in healthcare computing and discusses emerging technologies that can...

"This book will be a terrific introduction to the field of clinical IT and clinical informatics" -- Kevin Johnson

"Dr. Braunstein has done a wonderful job of exploring a number of key trends in technology in the context of the transformations that are occurring in our health care system" -- Bob Greenes

"This insightful book is a perfect primer for technologists entering the health tech field." -- Deb Estrin

"This book should be read by everyone.​" -- David Kibbe

This book provides care...

Provide outstanding patient care while navigating the complexities of healthcare reform with this comprehensive, engagingly written guide

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Effective Strategies for Change is a newly revised edition of HIMSS' bestseller Change Management Strategies for an Effective EMR Implementation. Published in 2009, Change Management Strategies prepared readers to lead or participate successfully in change management/technology adoption efforts to achieve meaningful use of EMRs. The authors provided successful strategies to plan and implement change-based on their decades of combined experience managing the people side of implementation.
This revised edition explores how healthcare has changed since...

The author's previous book, Transition to 21st Century Healthcare: A Guide for Leaders and Quality Professionals, provides a high-level view of American healthcare as transitioning through a period of industrialization, breaking down the fading structures of 20th century healthcare, and paving the way for 21st century healthcare.

Mapping the Path to 21st Century Healthcare: The Ten Transitions Workbook offers a review of the fundamentals of the transitional structure presented in the first book, but shifts its focus from concepts to practical application,...

Wie gelingt es Fuhrungskraften, in einer digitalisierten Welt sich radikal veranderten Anforderungen erfolgreich zu stellen und dabei auch langfristig gesund zu bleiben? Was fur ein neues Denken in Bezug auf Gesundheit ist erforderlich, um auf Dauer den Verantwortungen in Beruf, Familie und Gesellschaft mit Freude und Zufriedenheit begegnen zu konnen? Die Autoren zeichnen...

Das Buch liefert theoretische Hintergrunde, praktische Anwendungen und aufschlussreiche Fallbeispiele fur die Markenbildung im Gesundheitsmarkt. In vielen Bereichen der Gesundheitswirtschaft ist Marke als Management-Instrument und Erfolgsprinzip noch nicht angekommen. Das betrifft alle Segmente: vom pharmazeutischen Produkt uber die Apotheke und die Klinik als Marke bis zur Krankenkasse. Mit den Markentechnischen Instruktionen" soll Grundsatzliches zum Markenmanagement und zur Markenkommunikation vermittelt werden. Die Markentechnische Praxis" zeigt im erfolgreichen Einzelfall...

In der gesundheitspolitischen Debatte werden die Gesundheit und das Gesundheitswesen vielfach mit den Kosten fur die Gesellschaft in Verbindung gebracht und gleichsam als Problem fur das Gemeinwesen gesehen. Dies folgt wohl vor allem daraus, dass in den europaischen Gesundheitssystemen in erster Linie der Staat fur die Finanzierung von Gesundheitsleistungen verantwortlich zeichnet. Das Gesundheitsbedurfnis der Menschen ist jedoch ein wesentlicher Wirtschaftsfaktor, mit entsprechenden Auswirkungen auf Produktion, Wertschopfung, Beschaftigung und offentliche Einnahmen. Die Erstellung eines...

A growing body of research demonstrates how the arts - including literary, performing and visual arts as well as architecture and design - can greatly enhance the experience of healthcare, contributing to improved health outcomes, a better patient experience and lower healthcare costs. This unique book provides an overview of what the arts in healthcare can achieve and how to implement the arts in the most effective manner.

Exploring possibilities for innovative program design and implementation - from healing gardens through public performances to bedside activities - the text...

A growing body of research demonstrates how the arts - including literary, performing and visual arts as well as architecture and design - can greatly enhance the experience of healthcare, contributing to improved health outcomes, a better patient experience and lower healthcare costs. This unique book provides an overview of what the arts in healthcare can achieve and how to implement the arts in the most effective manner.

Exploring possibilities for innovative program design and implementation - from healing gardens through public performances to bedside activities - the text...

The Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision provides a global 'state of the art' overview of clinical supervision, presenting and examining the most comprehensive, robust empirical evidence upon which to base practice.

This authoritative volume builds on a previous volume, Fundamental Themes in Clinical Supervision, whilst greatly expanding its coverage. It contains nine updated and 25 entirely new chapters, focusing on both areas of contemporary interest and hitherto under-examined issues. Divided into five parts, it discusses:

• Education and...

The gap between a rising demand for health care services on the one side and scarce resources on the other, is leading to a growing pressure on decision-making processes. Hence, prioritization in medicinehas becomean increasingly important issueforassuring stability of health systems and improvingthe capability of health care. The present volume addresses normative dimensions of methodological and theoretical approaches, the legal basis behind priority setting as well as international experiences concerning the normative framework and the process of priority setting. It also...

This compelling title is a comprehensive, practical guide for current and aspiring leaders in academic medical centers (AMC). Offering both a broad overview of the dynamics of the AMC and a detailed how-to set of instructions for the wide-ranging situations that demand skilled leadership, this expertly designed volume is filled with meaningful examples and insights. Learning to Lead in the Academic Medical Center: A Practical Guide consists of five parts. The first three sections are narrative and intended to help the reader become a better leader. The first section looks at the AMC...

The change from traditional ways of producing and managing healthcare services to a just-in-time approach requires a new understanding about what adds value for the patient or customer, and what does not. Just-in-Time for Healthcare is intended to share powerful knowledge that will help you participate effectively in the change to just-in-time.

Part of the　Lean Tools for Healthcare　series, this user-friendly book is designed to improve understanding of the just-in-time (JIT) system that is fundamental to providing lean healthcare services and...