Medical : Health Care Delivery

No one misses the onslaught of claims about reforming modern medical care. How doctors should be paid, how hospitals should be paid or governed, how much patients should pay when sick in co-payments, how the quality of care could be improved, and how governments and other buyers could better control the costs of care — all find expression in the explosion of medical care conference proceedings, op-eds, news bulletins, journal articles, and books. This collection of articles takes up a key set of what the author regards as particularly misleading fads and fashions — developments that produce a startling degree of foolishness in contemporary discussions of how to organize, deliver, finance, pay for and regulate medical care services in modern industrial democracies. The policy fads addressed include the celebration of explicit rationing as a major cost control instrument, the belief in a "basic package" of health insurance benefits to constrain costs, the faith that contemporary cross-national research can deliver a large number of transferable models, and the notion that broadening the definition of what is meant by health will constitute some sort of useful advance in practice. more...

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This volume asseses the likely impact of continuous open enrolment for retired military personnel subscribing to the Uniformed Services Family Health Plan (USFHP). This option is under discussion as an alternative to enrolment during a 30-day period each spring. more...

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This straightforward and reader-friendly guide provides the most up-to-date treatment options for fractures and dislocations of the hand and wrist. A convenient reference for clinical decision-making, this source analyzes a wide variety of conditions the physician must consider during fracture repair including the nature, type, and stability of the fracture, and the type of fixation required for break repair. Emphasizing new developments, techniques, and concepts in the field, an international array of experts discuss critical elements in the care of these common musculoskeletal injuries. more...

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How can you make the best use of patient data to improve health outcomes? More and more information about patients’ health is stored on increasingly interconnected computer systems. But is it shared in ways that help clinicians care for patients? Could it be better used as a resource for researchers?. This book is aimed at all those who want to learn about how IT is transforming the way we think about medicine and medical research. The ideas explored here are taken from research carried out around the world, and are presented by a leading authority in Health Informatics based at University College London. This comprehensive guide to the field is split into three sections:.:.; What is health informatics? – an introduction.; Techniques for representing and analysing patient data and medical knowledge.; Implementation in the clinical setting: changing practice to improve health care outcomes. Whether you are a health professional, NHS manager or IT specialist, this book will help you understand how data can be managed to provide the information you and your colleagues want in the most helpful and accessible way for both you and your patients. more...

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Human body and the world in which it functions is a changing complex adaptive system. We are able to collect data about it, but the challenge is to infer local dynamics from that data. Intelligent Caring Biomechatronic Creatures and Healthmaticians have a better chance of inferring the dynamics that needs to be understood than human physicians. more...

Price: $129.00