Understanding healthcare economics : managing your career in an evolving healthcare system
- Title
- Understanding healthcare economics : managing your career in an evolving healthcare system / Jeanne Wendel, William O'Donohue, Teresa D. Serratt ; foreword by Mary A. Paterson.
- Published by
- Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, [2014]
- Author
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| Status | FormatBook/Text | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberRA410.5 .W46 2014 | Item locationOff-site |
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- Description
- xxxii, 223 pages; 27 cm
- Summary
- "This book provides key economic facts, explains the economic concepts needed to examine the implications of these facts, and summarizes the results of empirical studies regarding our healthcare system's access, cost, and quality problems as well as identifying six key trends that are reforming our system. The book helps readers understand the terminology, the facts, and the types of changes that are currently underway. The authors address the macro-problems, and micro-problems which will help assess practice opportunities, and identify viable strategies for adapting to the changes that will optimize the care provided"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Contents
- Access -- Cost -- Quality -- Align incentives via payment system design -- Managed care organizations, accountable care organizations, and patient-centered medical homes -- Wellness, prevention, disease management -- New types of providers -- HIT = EMR + HIE.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.