Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Administration

The negative consequences of natural hazard events are staggering and growing. Governments are acting to increase community resilience, reduce losses, and facilitate recovery, but these actions do not always yield anticipated consequences. This book is a compelling interdisciplinary analysis of California s efforts to ensure that acute care hospitals survive earthquakes and continue to function in the aftermath. The book weaves together several threads essential to understanding the effectiveness of public policies intended to reduce the consequences of natural hazard events: public policy...

According to private and public estimates, billions of dollars are lost per hour to healthcare waste, fraud, and abuse. A must-have reference for auditors, fraud investigators, and healthcare managers, Healthcare Fraud, Second Edition provides tips and techniques to help you spot--and prevent--the -red flags- of fraudulent activity within your organization. Eminently readable, it is your -go-to- resource, equipping you with the necessary skills to look...

Although physicians and hospitals are receiving incentives to use electronic health records (EHRs), there is little emphasis on workflow and process improvement by providers or vendors. As a result, many healthcare organizations end up with incomplete product specifications and poor adoption rates.

Process Improvement with Electronic Health Records: A Stepwise Approach to Workflow and Process Management walks you through a ten-step approach for applying workflow and process management principles regardless of what stage your organization is in its EHR journey. Introducing workflow and...

Drawing on the expertise of decision-making professionals, leaders, and managers in health care organizations, Hospitals & Health Care Organizations: Management Strategies, Operational Techniques, Tools, Templates, and Case Studies addresses decreasing revenues, increasing costs, and growing consumer expectations in today's increasingly competitive health care market.

Offering practical experience and applied operating vision, the authors integrate Lean managerial applications, and regulatory perspectives with real-world case studies, models, reports,...

While the interdisciplinary field of materials science and engineering is relatively new, remarkable developments in materials have emerged for biological and medical applications, from biocompatible polymers in medical devices to the use of carbon nanotubes as drug delivery vehicles. Exploring these materials and applications, Materials in Biology and Medicine presents the background and real-world examples of advanced materials in biomedical engineering, biology, and medicine.

With peer-reviewed chapters written by a select group of academic and industry...

Qualitat als wissenschaftliche Superidee und als generalisierbares Ideal der Medizin ist theoretisch und praktisch unhaltbar und unfruchtbar, weil Qualitat nicht letztgultig ableitbar oder legitimierbar und daher auch alles andere als kritikresistent ist. Das schmerzt gerade im Fall der Medizin, die uns wie kaum eine andere Disziplin und menschliche Tatigkeit existenziell betrifft und wo Willkur und Beliebigkeit keinen Platz haben durfen und doch in diesem oder jenem Fall immer wieder unterstellt werden konnen. Der Ruf nach Qualitat in der Medizin ist daher vielleicht auch ein...