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  • Insourced

    How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad

    by Dr. Kate Tulenko ...
    For years, opponents of outsourcing have argued that offshoring American jobs destroys our local industries, lays waste to American job creation, and gives foreigners the good jobs and income that would otherwise remain on our shores. Yet few Americans realize that a parallel dynamic is occurring in the healthcare sector—previously one of the most consistent sources of stable, dependable living ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • High Performing Healthcare Systems, Delivering Quality By Design

    Delivering Quality by Design

    by G. Ross Baker,Anu MacIntosh-Murray,Christina Porcellato,Lynn Dionne,Kim Stelmacovish and Karen Born ...
    An examination of leadership, strategies, organization processes and investments made to create and sustain improvement in healthcare. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Catastrophic Care

    How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It

    by David Goldhill ...
    A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Powerful Medicines

    The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs

    by Jerry Avorn M.D. ...
    If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug’s safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of patient care, teaching, and research at Harvard Medical School, he shares ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

    Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

    by Charles R. Morris ...
    "Insightful and filled with verve...electrifying."—Wall Street JournalHailed as "an astute book of enormous importance" (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Charles R. Morris recounts in thrilling detail a late-night against-the-clock "harvest run" to secure a precious transplantable organ, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Understanding Global Health, 2E

    by William H. Markle, Melanie A. Fisher, Ray A. Smego Jr. ...
    A complete introductory review of global health--updated to reflect the latest issues and challengesThe first edition of Understanding Global Health set a new information standard for this rapidly emerging subject. Written by a remarkable group of authors and contributors, this comprehensive, engagingly written text offers unmatched coverage of every important topic--from infectious disease to ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Alcohol, Power and Public Health

    A Comparative Study of Alcohol Policy

    by Shane Butler, Karen Elmeland, Betsy Thom, James Nicholls ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
    In recent years, the reduction of alcohol-related harm has emerged as a major policy issue across Europe. Public health advocates, supported by the World Health Organisation, have challenged an approach that targets problem-drinking individuals, calling instead for governments to control consumption across whole populations through a combination of pricing strategies, restrictions on retail ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Public-Private Partnerships in Health

    Improving Infrastructure and Technology

    Edited by Veronica Vecchi, Mark Hellowell ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book considers the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the delivery of physical assets, infrastructure and technologies and related clinical services, in the health sector. The PPP model represents the most complex form of contracting transaction yet to have emerged in the health sector, owing to its long-term character, financial complexity, and risk-allocation mechanisms. This book ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Accessibility and Active Offer

    Health Care and Social Services in Linguistic Minority Communities

    Edited by Marie Drolet, Pier Bouchard, Jacinthe Savard ...
    Series series Health and Society
    It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading professionals. Accessibility and Active Offer thus combines theory and empirical data to help ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine

    Health Care Fraud and What to Do about It

    by Terry L. Leap ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    U.S. health care is a $2.5 trillion system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation's GDP. It is also highly susceptible to fraud. Estimates vary, but some observers believe that as much as 10 percent of all medical billing involves some type of fraud. In 2009, New York's Medicaid fraud office recovered $283 million and obtained 148 criminal convictions. In July 2010, the U.S. Justice ... Read more

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  • Just-in-Time for Healthcare

    by Thomas L. Jackson ...
    Series series Lean Tools for Healthcare Series
    The change from traditional ways of producing and managing healthcare services to a just-in-time approach requires a new understanding about what adds value for the patient or customer, and what does not. Just-in-Time for Healthcare is intended to share powerful knowledge that will help you participate effectively in the change to just-in-time.Part of the Lean Tools for Healthcare series, this ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Conceptual Design Standards for a Single Comprehensive Confidential Health Record Database Communications Network

    by John R. Krismer ...
    Patients legally own their medical records that are stored either manually or on an assortment of computers, software, and operating systems in a variety of disorganized healthcare facilities, which are spiraling healthcare costs out of control. In 1910, the Flexner Report by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations, established medical education standards and licensing of qualified physicians who ... Read more

    $8.69 USD