Portable Health Administration (Paperback)

Overview

Environmental Issues: Health Care Systems, Politics and Policy, and Access
Health Administration: Systems, Policy and Management
How Politics Makes Health Policy
Poverty and the Ethics of Equitable Access and Quality

Critical Organization & Management Elements
The Tough Work of Leadership
Developing Networks to Deal with Complex Health Care Problems
Management Information Systems for Clinicians: Design and Function
Medical Care Quality: Double Track Thinking and Action
Quality Care and Academic Medical Centers: the Need for Physician
Listening to Stakeholders Input - Interviews, Focus Groups Surveys and Direct Observation
Lessons Learned from Hospital Mergers

Finance, Economics, and Insurance
Its Not About the Money: Financing and Payment of Physician Services
Understanding Health Insurance
Implementing Cost Control in Healthcare
Physicain Rewards in the Academic Medical Center

The Future
Design and Redesign of the Health Systems' Futures
Need for Health Policy Education in the Medical Curriculum
Healthy Communities: Past, Present, and Future