Managing Integrated Health Systems

Managing Integrated Health Systems

Author: Shiver

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2015-08-03

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1284044491

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Managing Integrated Healthcare Systems: A Guide for Health Executives provides those managers engaged in and studying healthcare the understanding and the knowledge required to succeed in this dynamic industry.


Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems

Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems

Author: Yuehwern Yih

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 798

ISBN-13: 1439803625

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With rapidly rising healthcare costs directly impacting the economy and quality of life, resolving improvement challenges in areas such as safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity has become paramount. Using a system engineering perspective, Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems offers theoretical foundation


The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century

The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2003-02-01

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 0309133181

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The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.


Improving Financial and Operations Performance

Improving Financial and Operations Performance

Author: Richard J. Priore, ScD, MHA, FACHE, FACMPE

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2021-01-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0826144640

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The increasing pressure on the bottom line of healthcare provider organizations requires leaders who understand and can adeptly apply the basic principles of effective financial and operations management. To be successful in today's environment leaders must simultaneously improve quality and service while reducing expense. Improving Financial and Operations Performance: A Healthcare Leader's Guide is a collection of proven effective tips, tools, and techniques accumulated from real-world challenges and lessons learned logically organized to provide a straightforward approach to planning, assessing, managing, and monitoring a business enterprise to improve profitability. This book provides a clear, step-by-step "how to" approach for both new and experienced leaders seeking a leg up in tackling the myriad of common and complex challenges they are facing including conducting a budget variance analysis, managing labor and non-labor productivity and expense, performing a comprehensive financial condition analysis, growing profitable volume and market share, developing an effective business case for improving quality, and evaluating the financial impact of a future project. Written for clinical and administrative leaders working in the trenches, it provides practical and applicable tools with relevant, real-world, and replicable case study examples. The essential value of Improving Financial and Operations Performance: A Healthcare Leader's Guide is improving decision-making effectiveness, enhancing operations efficiency know-how, and developing strong financial management acumen to overcome the challenges in today's healthcare environment. Key Features: Author experience with extensive expertise as a former investor-owned hospital CEO, integrated health system vice president, managing director for the renowned turnaround experts, the Hunter Group, and graduate business school professor in management, finance, and economics. Realistic case examples to apply the key lessons through detailed practical and relevant case studies using clear step-by-step instructions. Calls-to-action at the end of each chapter with critical leadership imperatives to help prioritize and focus efforts on what matters most. Comprehensive glossary of key terms and concepts using plain easy to understand language. Appendices and Excel templates containing easy-to-use plug-and-play financial worksheets, checklists, best practice pathways, and performance assessments.


Transforming Health Care Leadership

Transforming Health Care Leadership

Author: Michael Maccoby

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-07-29

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1118603672

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Health care organizations are challenged to improve care at the bedside for patients, learn from individual patients to improve population health, and reduce per capita costs. To achieve these aims, leaders are needed in all parts of the organization need positive solutions. Transforming Health Care Leadership provides healthcare leaders with the knowledge and tools to master the unprecedented level of change that health care organizations and their leaders now face. It also challenges management myths that served in bureaucracies but mislead in learning organizations.


The Physician Leader's Guide

The Physician Leader's Guide

Author: Richard Burton

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 1997-12

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9781569251072

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The Physicians Leader's Guide, Second Edition was updated and expanded to help you and your staff define your challenges, organize your expa nding responsibilities and take your performance to new levels. Edited by Richard Burton MD, MBA, PhD, this time-saving resource includes 15 additional, all-new, skill-building chapters, to help you excel in yo ur leadership role. From developing effective negotiation skills as a physician...to handling information systems in clinical practice...to using medical practice guidelines and evidence-based medicine to impro ve care.. you'll see how your colleagues in the healthcare industry ma stered the very same challenges you face, and how you can do it too!


Integrated Delivery System A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition

Integrated Delivery System A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition

Author: Gerardus Blokdyk

Publisher: 5starcooks

Published: 2019-09-29

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780655931652

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What exactly do you mean by integrated services? Is integration in large medical groups associated with quality? What health systems will succeed in such a reformed health care landscape? Do you consider you organization to be an integrated delivery system? Just how integrated are integrated delivery systems? This instant Integrated Delivery System self-assessment will make you the principal Integrated Delivery System domain leader by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Integrated Delivery System challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the Integrated Delivery System work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Integrated Delivery System task and that every Integrated Delivery System outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Integrated Delivery System costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Integrated Delivery System advice instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Integrated Delivery System essentials are covered, from every angle: the Integrated Delivery System self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Integrated Delivery System outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Integrated Delivery System practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Integrated Delivery System are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access details to the Integrated Delivery System self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation - In-depth and specific Integrated Delivery System Checklists - Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.


Alliances

Alliances

Author: Douglas E. Goldstein

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780834206021

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This executive report takes you step-by-step through the process of developing integrated delivery systems. You'll learn eleven fundamental building blocks for integration and how to apply these methods to redesign and improve your existing processes and systems.


Virtually Integrated Health Systems

Virtually Integrated Health Systems

Author: Richard J. Coffey

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 1997-11-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780787910785

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A Road Map to the Future of Health Care Richard Coffey, Kate Fenner, and Sheryl Stogis bring together their years of experience to show how to avoid the most common problems on the journey toward integration. They offer an expanded view of the health and community services required of the emerging integrated health system. Using a powerful three-strategy plan, they outline a comprehensive, community-based approach to health promotion and maintenance that sustains and improves the health of all people in the communities served. With models, techniques, and practical tools, Virtually Integrated Health Systems Details a unique taxonomy of healthcare, health, and social services and shows how to assess your own, your potential partners', and even your competitors' scope of services Offers guidance and insights to address organizational issues of culture, leadership, and human resources Uses the criteria common to most external assessment and accreditation organizations to show how to make external expectations and evaluation criteria a vital part of the assessment process