Healthcare Management Books

New and Published Books

1. Organizations and the Bioeconomy

   The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences

   By Alexander Styhre

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   The advancement of the life sciences and the technosciences has enhanced the longevity of citizens in the Western world, and half of the generation born in the first decade of the new millennium is now expected to live to the age of one hundred years. In a society with such longevity and affluence,...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Working in Mental Health

   Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment

   Edited by Peter Phillips, Tom Sandford, Claire Johnston

   A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening – both for service users, and for professional mental healthcare workers. A more influential service user movement, a range of new community-based mental healthcare programmes delivered by an increasing...

   Published March 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Electronic Health Record

   A Systems Analysis of the Medications Domain

   By Alexander Scarlat, MD

   An accessible primer, Electronic Health Record: A Systems Analysis of the Medications Domain introduces the tools and methodology of Structured Systems Analysis as well as the nuances of the Medications domain. The first part of the book provides a top-down decomposition along two main paths: data...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Productivity Press
4. Integrated Care

   Applying Theory to Practice

   Edited by Russ Curtis, Eric Christian

   This book provides pertinent and practical information about how to create, work, and thrive in an Integrated Care (IC) setting. Unlike other books on the subject, it focuses on the "nuts and bolts" of establishing an IC practice; it also covers material that is often missing from or insufficiently...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Lean-Led Hospital Design

   Creating the Efficient Hospital of the Future

   By Naida Grunden, Charles Hagood

   Instead of building new hospitals that import old systems and problems, the time has come to reexamine many of our ideas about what a hospital should be. Can a building foster continuous improvement? How can we design it to be flexible and useful well into the future? How can we do more with less?...

   Published March 15th 2012 by Productivity Press
6. Prospective Payment Systems

   By Duane C. Abbey

   The third book in the Healthcare Payment Systems series, Prospective Payment Systems examines the various types of prospective payment systems (PPS) used by healthcare providers and third-party payers. Emphasizing the basic elements of PPS, it considers the many variations of payment for hospital...

   Published February 14th 2012 by Productivity Press
7. Epidemic of Medical Errors and Hospital-Acquired Infections

   Systemic and Social Causes

   By William Charney

   Medical error as defined in Epidemic of Medical Errors and Hospital-Acquired Infections: Systemic and Social Causes encompasses many categories including, but not limited to, medical error, hospital-acquired infections, medication errors, deaths from misdiagnosis, deaths from infectious diarrhea in...

   Published February 5th 2012 by CRC Press
8. Hospitality and Health

   Issues and Developments

   Edited by Jaime Seba

   In the last several decades, international traffic volume has significantly increased, raising the risk of infectious diseases and their spread. In this important volume, the impact of health issues is explored in connection with travel. Not only does the book explore the risk of diseases such as...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Apple Academic Press
9. Understanding Health Care Reform

   Bridging the Gap Between Myth and Reality

   By Arthur M. Feldman, MD, PhD

   After nearly a year of debate, in March 2010, Congress passed and the president signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to reform the U.S. health care system. The most significant social legislation since the civil rights legislation and the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, the bill...

   Published December 13th 2011 by Productivity Press
10. A Factory of One

    Applying Lean Principles to Banish Waste and Improve Your Personal Performance

    By Daniel Markovitz

    Most business readers have heard of the Lean principles developed for factories—a set of tools and ideas that have enabled companies to dramatically boost quality by reducing waste and errors—producing more while using less. Yet until now, few have recognized how relevant these powerful ideas are...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Productivity Press