Download or read book Best Care at Lower Cost written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Best Care at Lower Cost explains that inefficiencies, an overwhelming amount of data, and other economic and quality barriers hinder progress in improving health and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness. According to this report, the knowledge and tools exist to put the health system on the right course to achieve continuous improvement and better quality care at a lower cost. The costs of the system's current inefficiency underscore the urgent need for a systemwide transformation. About 30 percent of health spending in 2009-roughly $750 billion-was wasted on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud, and other problems. Moreover, inefficiencies cause needless suffering. By one estimate, roughly 75,000 deaths might have been averted in 2005 if every state had delivered care at the quality level of the best performing state. This report states that the way health care providers currently train, practice, and learn new information cannot keep pace with the flood of research discoveries and technological advances. About 75 million Americans have more than one chronic condition, requiring coordination among multiple specialists and therapies, which can increase the potential for miscommunication, misdiagnosis, potentially conflicting interventions, and dangerous drug interactions. Best Care at Lower Cost emphasizes that a better use of data is a critical element of a continuously improving health system, such as mobile technologies and electronic health records that offer significant potential to capture and share health data better. In order for this to occur, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, IT developers, and standard-setting organizations should ensure that these systems are robust and interoperable. Clinicians and care organizations should fully adopt these technologies, and patients should be encouraged to use tools, such as personal health information portals, to actively engage in their care. This book is a call to action that will guide health care providers; administrators; caregivers; policy makers; health professionals; federal, state, and local government agencies; private and public health organizations; and educational institutions.

Download or read book Evaluating the Nonprofit CEO written by John Gillis and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluating the Nonprofit CEO is designed to be read and used by board members, and covers all the points administrators tell us they'd like their board members to know about the performance appraisal process. This resource provides information about how board members can conduct regular, consistent, and fair evaluations and salary reviews. Evaluating the Nonprofit CEO contains tips and strategies to actually conduct performance appraisals. It's full of useful forms, checklists, and questionnaires to make sure board members are fully qualified to write job descriptions, evaluate performance, and formulate achievable and measurable goals.

Download or read book Contracts for Healthcare Executives written by and published by Foundation of American College of Healthcare Executives. This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report written by American College of Healthcare Executives and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report and Reference Guide written by American College of Healthcare Executives and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hospital Turnarounds written by Terence F. Moore and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The U S Healthcare System written by Joel I. Shalowitz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a diverse, multi-faceted approach to health care evaluation and management The U.S. Health Care System: Origins, Organization and Opportunities provides a comprehensive introduction and resource for understanding healthcare management in the United States. It brings together the many "moving parts" of this large and varied system to provide both a bird's-eye view as well as relevant details of the complex mechanisms at work. By focusing on stakeholders and their interests, this book analyzes the value propositions of the buyers and sellers of healthcare products and services along with the interests of patients. The book begins with a presentation of frameworks for understanding the structure of the healthcare system and its dynamic stakeholder inter-relationships. The chapters that follow each begin with their social and historical origins, so the reader can fully appreciate how that area evolved. The next sections on each topic describe the current environment and opportunities for improvement. Throughout, the learning objectives focus on three areas: frameworks for understanding issues, essential factual knowledge, and resources to keep the reader keep up to date. Healthcare is a rapidly evolving field, due to the regulatory and business environments as well as the advance of science. To keep the content current, online updates are provided at: healthcareinsights.md. This website also offers a weekday blog of important/interesting news and teaching notes/class discussion suggestions for instructors who use the book as a text. The U.S. Health Care System: Origins, Organization and Opportunities is an ideal textbook for healthcare courses in MBA, MPH, MHA, and public policy/administration programs. In piloting the content, over the past several years the author has successfully used drafts of chapters in his Healthcare Systems course for MBA and MPH students at Northwestern University. The book is also useful for novice or seasoned suppliers, payers and providers who work across the healthcare field and want a wider or deeper understanding of the entire system.

Download or read book Evaluating the Performance of the Hospital CEO written by Peter A. Weil and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book Accountability and Effectiveness Evaluation in Non-Profit Organizations (2000, Routledge), authors James Cutt and Vic Murray state, "Evaluators draw their conclusions about performance from inadequate data, informally gleaned impressions and pre-existing beliefs. Evaluatees often try to avoid blame rather than accept responsibility for those matters for which they are accountable. Many games are played with evaluation systems to ensure positive conclusions." The scenario in this quote, not uncommon in healthcare, keeps the healthcare industry from reaching its fullest potential. Triumphing over the dynamic forces that dictate healthcare's role in communities requires a leader who is dynamic as well as one who can redefine an organization's goals, redevelop its strategies, and respond to the outside threats and opportunities that come along. The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)'s valuable monograph, Evaluating the Performance of the Hospital CEO, presents the results of a 2001 survey involving chief executives affiliated with ACHE. The findings and recommendations in this monograph can help trustees and corporate officers complete the indispensable task of performing an unbiased evaluation of their hospital CEO. Case studies feature interviews with CEOs of both rural and urban, government and private (including, not-for-profit and investor-owned) hospitals and healthcare systems.

Download or read book The Hospital and Clinic Improvement Handbook written by Boaz Ronen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential healthcare guide to doing more with existing resources The healthcare industry faces foundational challenges to how it sustains itself. As the gap between cost and revenue continues to widen, and as cost-effectiveness remains an elusive imperative, the question persists: how can healthcare organizations do more with the same resources? The Hospital and Clinic Improvement Handbook is a practical guide to how operations management -- in particular Lean and the Theory of Constraints (TOC) -- can rapidly advance value and performance in any healthcare organization. Utilizing a systems approach that will be relevant for healthcare managers and executives, it unpacks and demystifies concepts such as performance measures, operations, quality, cost accounting, pricing, and value enhancement, all as they relate to eliminating waste and non-value-adding activities. Enriched with dozens of examples and building on the authors' experience teaching and refining these concepts for healthcare, this text is an essential guide for executives and managers across the industry.

Download or read book The Guide to Governance for Hospital and Health System Trustees written by Mary K. Totten and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Principles of Risk Management and Patient Safety written by Barbara J. Youngberg and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Risk Management and Patient Safety identifies changes in the industry and describes how these changes have influenced the functions of risk management in all aspects of healthcare. The book is divided into four sections. The first section describes the current state of the healthcare industry and looks at the importance of risk management and the emergence of patient safety. It also explores the importance of working with other sectors of the health care industry such as the pharmaceutical and device manufacturers. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.

Download or read book Healthcare Executive written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The AUPHA Manual of Health Services Management written by Robert J. Taylor and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1994 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from more than 30 authorities in the field, this reference covers topics varying from management techniques to strategic planning, To ownership and governance, To a department-by-department breakdown of health care facility support services.

Download or read book Hospital Compensation written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the compensation hospital chief executives received for overseeing hospital operations, the factors that influenced these compensation levels, & compensation paid to executives of not-for-profit hospitals by businesses related to those hospitals. 9 charts & tables

Download or read book Ownership Structure Goals and Performance Measures in CEO Compensation Contracts written by Ola Marie Smith and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biennial Review of Health Care Management written by Grant T. Savage and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the advances on a variety of micro and macro health care management topics. Part of the "Advances in Health Care Management" series, this title showcases reviews of both empirical and conceptual research in specific areas of health care management.

Download or read book Performance Measurement written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-07-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Measurement is the first in a new series of an ongoing effort by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to improve health care quality. Performance Measurement offers a comprehensive review of available measures and introduces a new framework to examine these measures against the six aims of the health care system: health care should be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. This new book also addresses the gaps in performance measurement and introduces the need for measures that are longitudinal, comprehensive, population-based, and patient-centered. This book is directed toward all concerned with improving the quality and performance of the nation's health care system in its multiple dimensions and in both the public and private sectors.