New perspectives in healthcare : impacts of regulation, organization, reform and change in the United States health system.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emerald, author, issuing body.

Series:

Emerald gems.

Emerald Gems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--United States.

Medical policy.

Health care reform--United States.

Health care reform.

Health planning--United States.

Health planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 205 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

United Kingdom : Emerald, 2015.

Summary:

A mixture of original research and thought leadership pieces combine to examine the changing landscape of the US healthcare system. This book provides researchers, professionals, managers and policy makers with a summary of how the US healthcare system has evolved and provides food for thought on how to prepare for the challenges of the future.

Contents:

A different kind of public healthcare system ... / David Birnbaum

Physician Medicare fraud: characteristics and consequences / Vivek Pande and Will Maas

Obamacare: an ethical analysis of his leadership and the health reform initiative / Lamar Odom, Richard Owen, Amina Valley and Phillip Burrell

Applying continuous improvement in public reporting: what should government reports do for quality improvement? / David Birnbaum and Jude Van Buren

What can Canada learn from the USA's experience in reducing healthcare-associated infections? / William R. Jarvis

Mandatory public reporting: the New York State experience / Rachel Stricof

Applying the free market philosophy to healthcare / Pat Testa and Walter E. Block

Forces, trends, and decisions in pharmaceutical supply chain management / Christian L. Rossetti, Robert Handfield and Kevin J. Dooley

Primary care in the United States: practice-based innovations and factors that influence adoption / Debora Goetz Goldberg

Strategic groups and outcomes in the US hospice care industry / Eric G. Kirby

Structuring agency: examining healthcare management in the USA and Australia using organizational theory / Julianne Payne and Jeffrey Leiter

Managing in the context of healthcare's escalating technology and evolving culture / Dawn E. Bowden and Stanley J. Smits

Do health care professionals find the use of age-based rationing to reduce health care costs ethical? / Hengameh Hosseini.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781785608742

1785608746

OCLC:

1007675925