Medical : Health Care Delivery

Offers a different viewpoint to the US healthcare crisis. This book discusses how the system evolved and debunks various myths. Exploring potential solutions, it balances conflicting factors, including the movement to make healthcare patient-centered and the trend to transfer significant portions of financial risk to patients via high-deductibles. more...

Price: $55.00

Professor Herzlinger documents how the consumer-driven health care movement is being implemented and its impact on insurers, providers, new intermediaries, and governments. With additional contributions by health care’s leading strategists, innovators, regulators and scholars, Consumer-Driven Health Care presents a compelling vision of a health care system built to satisfy the people it serves. This comprehensive resource includes the most important thinking on the topic and compelling case studies of consumer-driven health care (CDHC) in action, here and abroad, including new consumer-driven intermediaries for information and support; types of insurance plans; focused factories for delivering health care; personalized drugs and devices; and government roles. more...

Price: $65.00

Dr. Muennig has taken a complex subject and translated it into lay terms without compromising the integrity of the method. He does it with a touch of humor, and with lots of practical tips that will be valued highly by analysts who actually have to crunch more...

Price: $80.00

Where were you born? Were you born at the Beth? Many thousands of Americans—Jewish and non-Jewish—were born at a hospital bearing the Star of David and named Beth Israel, Mount Sinai, or Montefiore. Newark Beth Israel Hospital is a distinguished modern medical institution in New Jersey whose history opens a window on American health care, the immigrant experience, the religious impulse for health care, and urban life. Alan and Deborah Kraut tell the story of this important institution, illuminating the broader history of voluntary nonprofit hospitals created under religious auspices initially to serve poor immigrant communities. Like so many Jewish hospitals in the early half of the twentieth century, “the Beth” cared not only for its own community’s poor and underprivileged, a responsibility grounded in the Jewish traditions of tzedakah (“justice”) and tikkun olam (“to heal the world”), but also for all Newarkers. The Krauts tell the Beth Israel story against the backdrop of twentieth-century medical progress, Newark’s tumultuous history, and the broader social and demographic changes altering the landscape of American cities. Today, the United States, in the midst of another great wave of immigration, once again faces the question of how to provide newcomers with culturally sensitive and economically accessible medical care. Covenant of Care will inform and inspire all those working to meet these demands, offering a compelling look at the creative ways that voluntary hospitals navigated similar challenges throughout the twentieth century. more...

Price: $27.00

Addresses various issues relevant to error prevention and safe practice in the acute and emergency health-care setting. This book begins with the basic principles of human behavior and decision making and then details the influences of the individual, the team, and the organization within the health-care system. more...

Price: $59.95