Medical administration and management

The global trend of increasingly ageing societies and long term illnesses has meant a growth in demand for intensive care resources.

Efforts to reform healthcare systems around the globe are proliferating rapidly.

Re-humanizing medical practice for doctors, clinicians, clients, and systems.

Health care organizations around the world are judged in terms of a health care triple bottom line: ensuring employee and patient safety, maximizing employee and patient satisfaction, and meeting financial goals.

Health care, as it is currently organized, is not sustainable.

This volume focuses on management issues in the international context of health information technology (HIT).

As the health delivery landscape in the United States evolves in a post-COVID-19 era, both incumbents and new entrants are reimagining models of care.

Public health is the science and art of improving the health and well-being of communities.

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.

The Situation - A Radical Journey Thru Sisterhood is an intimate portrayal of two sisters, Carolyn and Lila, whose lives are deeply intertwined over forty years.

Hospitals, just like orchestras, are made up of many "e;instruments"e; which play their notes on their own, yet within a broader symphony.

Medical Coding ICD-10-PCS is the newest procedure coding system.

Help your team excel.

Prepare for an uncertain future with a solid vision and innovative practices.

Framed by the author's personal odyssey as a caregiver and richly informed by the inspiring and poignant tales of others, Caregiving explores medical and financial problems, all aspects of spirituality, and such issues as depression, stress, housing, home care, and end-of-life concerns.

WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE AN OPERATION IN JULY AND OTHER LIFESAVING ADVICE!

How many times have you had the unsettling experience of being treated as a troublemaker as soon as you question or raise an objection to a school policy, a textbook, a course of study, a new county regulation, or a community proposal?

This book isn't about dying.

Since its beginning, Buddhism has been intimately concerned with confronting and understanding death and dying.

Growing literature around the benefits of animal-assisted intervention (AAI) spurs health care professionals and administrators to start new programs.

Whether you're coping with a loved one who has received a terminal diagnosis, has a long-term illness or disability, or suffers with dementia, caregiving is challenging and crucial.

Business Engineering attempts to provide tools, as other engineering disciplines have, for the design of businesses.

Hospital-based physicians are privy to some of the most meaningful moments of people s lives, including life-changing diagnoses, pivotal medical procedures, complex medical decisions, and critical end-of-life decisions.

Business Engineering attempts to provide tools, as other engineering disciplines have, for the design of businesses.

The trillion-dollar health-care industry makes up the fastest growing segment of the job market, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

This accessible text presents a comparative analysis of health and social care policy and practice from around the world, with learning points drawn out for the UK.

The ability to heal is not reserved for a gifted few.

As the number of patients with diabetes increases annually, it is not surprising that the number of patients with diabetes who are admitted to the hospital also increases.

In today's health care environment, the drumbeat for care coordination grows louder and more urgent.

In today's health care environment, the drumbeat for care coordination grows louder and more urgent.

It happens all the time.

It happens all the time.

Despite new approaches, education and increased focus on preventative measures, patients are still falling.

Despite new approaches, education and increased focus on preventative measures, patients are still falling.

Care coordination has always been a primary duty of nursing.

Care coordination has always been a primary duty of nursing.

Palliative nursing reflects a holistic philosophy of care and services for patients and families who face serious or life-threatening illness in a wide variety of settings and conditions.

End-of-life care, within critical care, continues to be a controversial topic.

This book chronicles the intersection of chaplaincy, autopathography (illness narratives), and stigmatized illness through the observations and stories of a chaplain working at a facility for people with HIV and AIDS.

'Warm, wise and practical' Cressida Cowell, MBEAn invaluable reference for parents of sick or hospitalised children by an experienced and eminent psychologist.

It has become routine to see in various health care magazines, e-mails to leaders, and executive discussions on social media internet outlets, a listing of the ten top challenges that CEOs believe they are facing in the health care industry today.

Our current healthcare system is broken.

After receiving the bad news of terminal illness, many told the author the first thought they had was What do we do now?

After the many bureaucratic changes that followed the passing of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and other legislation, patient care has become secondary to satisfying the whims of government and giant insurance company administrators, who are in total control.

In Incurable Me, a maverick physician brings transparency to some of medicines most closely guarded secrets.

At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships.