Bücher der Reihe Advances in Health Care Management

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.

This book contains two Open Access chapters.The 21st volume of Advances in Health Care Management presents informed commentaries solicited from leaders across the field of health care management. Each chapter tackles a specific health care challenge, describing the state of the research on the challenge, identifying appropriate organizational innovations to respond to the challenge, and setting out a future research agenda. Expert authors consider what is known, what is not known, and what is needed to fill the gaps and advance knowledge. Responding to The Grand Challenges in Healthcare Via Organizational Innovation explores in detail varied scenarios and suggestions for dealing with unexpected crises, improving diversity, equity and inclusion in health care, building strategic alliances for inter-sector collaboration, as well as analyzing organizational governance and physician financial risk models.

This volume will interest healthcare researchers and health system designers alike. It revisits the evolution of health systems organization in light of regulatory and organizational evolution in health care, as well as assessing the latest evidence on physician integration, complexity, and system redesign.

Shedding light on current transformations in payment mechanisms and transparency of hospital performance data and prices, this volume of Advances in Health Care Management presents findings on hospital profitability, cost, and organizational structures.

This volume delves into the potential that design thinking can have when applied to organizational systems and structures in health care environments to mitigate risks, reduce medical errors and ultimately improve patient safety, the quality of care, provider well-being, and the overall patient experience.

Advances in Health Care Management Volume 17 helps to shape emerging thinking about best practices in international health care management. The volume is divided into two sections: a set of commentaries from US and European scholars, and research articles that compare two or more health systems and focus on specific topics in health care delivery.

Volume 16 of AHCM presents papers that explore population health management and organizational change across various levels of the healthcare system. Aspects of health care organizations discussed in the volume include the PCMH, ACOs, integration with the public health and mental health systems, hospital-physician alignment, and resource planning.

Includes contributions from key academic thought leaders from around the world who examine how health reform impacts the macro, meso and micro level strategy and policy decisions of healthcare organizations.

This book facilitates the exchange of management theory, best practice, implementation challenges, and the impact of adoption as it pertains to HIT adoption in one or more international settings. It presents a holistic viewpoint on HIT use in health care organizations and systems, and provides a managerial perspective from authors around the world.

The 14th volume of the Advances in Health Care Management research series addresses the links between leadership and safety, satisfaction or financial performance in health care management.

Provides a view into the world of Bioterrorism and shows how it could affect the healthcare system of the United States. This work demonstrates the ramifications to health, politics, and everyday common actions and looks at biological agents and how organizations and the government should respond in cases when such agents are unleashed.

This collection of critical ideas relating organization science to operations and accomplishments in the health care environment provides a thematic guide for leaders, practitioners, academics and administrators. It pulls in a broad cross-section of perspectives on the important linkage of scholarship and practice with a solid global perspective.

Strategic management of HR in health care is important in delivering high-quality patient care. This volume of Advances in Health Care Management which focuses on Human Resource Management aims to explore the strategic role that HRM can play in delivering high quality and affordable health care.

The papers included in this volume may be categorized loosely into four sections about health care management, including theoretical perspectives, the role and impact of managed care, the evolution of the health professions, and enhancing health care organizational performance.

Contains four sections that include, theoretical perspectives on managing patient safety, top management perspectives on patient safety, health information technology perspectives on patient safety, and organizational behavior and change perspectives on patient safety.

Features reviews of health care management, linking concerns about health care workforce management with health care organization management issues. This book focuses on health care workforce management issues, including allied health professionals, nurses, and physicians, and on health care organization management issues.

Examines the health care and hospital industries and their relation to entrepreneurial action and strategy. This work helps to recognize and address the often elusive phenomenon of successful strategic choice over environmental determinism, which is aided by quality strategic thinking and decisive entrepreneurial actions.

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Examines international health care management. This work consists of 12 papers, and explores the delivery and organization of care in health systems from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, encompassing more than 20 countries in their comparisons.

Features reviews and research on topics in the field of health care management. This work also contains papers from the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management.