This highly respected annual guide to healthcare trends will help you plan for the future. Written by an expert panel, Futurescan 2013 highlights eight key trends affecting the nation's healthcare org
Spath, a health information management professional with experience in healthcare quality and safety improvement, introduces the basic principles and techniques of quality measurement, evaluation, and
Now in its fourth edition, Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Law and Ethics offers teachers and students a comprehensive textbook on the subject. The text is divided into sections covering the role of
Presented by certified legal nurse consultant McGlown, 13 papers discuss, for healthcare administrators, planning and preparedness for disaster (especially terrorism). Topics include the implementatio
Ethical dilemmas are common in healthcare management. Although there is no handbook providing absolute solutions to ethics challenges, healthcare leaders can seek guidance and insight from others who
The editor of this book identifies it with the patient-and-family-centered healthcare movement; it may also be useful to students and professionals in narrative medicine and healthcare activism. The b
Why do some leaders inspire high performance while others have trouble motivating staff? Successful leaders understand that people select a healthcare profession because of an innate desire to help ot
Dye, an executive search consultant, and Garman, a professor of external relations and development in health systems management, identify 16 competencies healthcare executives need in the areas of sel
There is a shortage of leadership talent, in healthcare as well as other industries, and it is worsening, proclaims Dye, a consultant with a human-resources background in the health care industry. The
Despite a proliferation of strategies in recent years, little, if any, progress has been made in efforts to improve physician-hospital relations in the US. Fiol and O'Connor (both health administratio
Luke presents students, academics, researchers, and working healthcare professionals and policymakers with an investigation of readmission prevention tactics employed across a wide variety of healthca
Levine and Burns present a collection of essays examining the changes and challenges to hospital construction and other capital investment projects after the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The authors are