Reviews (3)

How to empower health care consumers

Huge but a litle simplistic
Sub-Title: Implications for Providers, Players, and Policy-Makers --,Citizen participation, Consumer satisfaction, Evaluation, Health & Fitness, Health Care Administration, Health Care Delivery, Health Care Issues, Health Policy, Health planning, Health/Fitness, Medical / Nursing, Patient Compliance, Patient satisfaction, Health systems & services, Medical / Administration, Personal & public health, Medical ==If your interests or profession lies in any area of health care this is a book that you almost have to have. In its almost 1,000 pages nearly every aspect of health care coverage is discussed. The format of the book includes some 200 pages written by Professor Herslinger followed by some 72 articles written by some 93 participants in a conference she held. As you would expect, the quality of the papers vary greatly. ==There are also a few reasons to disagree with some of Professor Herslingers basic thesis. She seems to believe that health insurers would compete in a fair market place to provide care to anyone. This is simply not true. If an insurance company can pre-select to eliminate giving any coverage at all to the sicker or more risky patients, it is to their benefit. An AIDS patient, with a requirement for expensive drugs can be folded into the coverage written for a large group, but an individual policy would have to be very expensive, or simply not written at all. The coverage of such patients is covered with what I think are unrealistic assumptions. ==The book presents a series of views that are just a bit simplistic, but which are forming a part of the national debate on health care. The information is needed if only to be aware of the discussion.

Thoughtful Contribution
In Consumer-Driven Health Care, Regina E. Herzlinger, a leading health care thought leader and a professor at the Harvard Business School, provides a thought-provoking look inside a new, powerful force slowly transforming America's dysfunctional health care industry. Consumer-Driven Health Care builds on her popular 1997 book Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America's Largest Service Industry.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Citizen participation    2. Consumer satisfaction    3. Evaluation    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health Care Administration    6. Health Care Delivery    7. Health Care Issues    8. Health Policy    9. Health planning    10. Health/Fitness    11. Medical / Nursing    12. Patient Compliance    13. Patient satisfaction    14. Health systems & services    15. Medical / Administration    16. Personal & public health    17. Medical   

Reviews (1)

Highly Recommended for Health Quality Professionals
There is ample evidence America has a serious problem with poor quality health care.Thankfully, there is no shortage of caring professionals motivated to improve care and the problems are solvable.As with any effort to improve performance, measurement is the first step to improving care and reducing medical mistakes.As I often remind clients and colleagues: you can't fix what you can't see.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Case studies    2. Evaluation    3. General    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health Care Delivery    6. Health/Fitness    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Medical care    9. Quality assurance    10. Quality control    11. Family & Health    12. Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues    13. Popular medicine   

Reviews (1)

Personal opinion of the book
I purchased this book as a text for a class and was pleasantly surprised.I've read a lot of leadership books but this has a different perspective than most.The author stresses the importance of core values in order to be a successful leader and how important those values are for the future of healthcare in America.I think any manager would find the book interesting and gain from reading it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Health Care Delivery    2. Health services administration    3. Leadership    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing   

Reviews (1)

thumbs up on economic explanation
This text makes the controversies regarding the state of health care systems clear. The explanations on Medicaid and Medicare make sense. The history of Canada's national health care, pitfalls, advantages, etc. give one a place to start when designing a new system of our own.Alyce Huntsinger RN NNP ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Cost control    5. Economic aspects    6. Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues    7. Hospital Administration    8. Industries - General    9. Medical care    10. Medical economics    11. Medical policy    12. United States   

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Business management    3. Business/Economics    4. Finance    5. Financial Management In Health Care    6. Health Care Delivery    7. Health facilities    8. Hospital Administration    9. Medicaid & Medicare    10. Medical    11. Medical / Administration    12. Medical / Health Care Delivery    13. Medical / Nursing    14. Medical care    15. Practice Management & Reimbursement    16. United States   

Reviews (1)

A concise and accessible introduction to available US health care
Department of Health Policy Management Professor Leiyu Shi and School of Public and Environmental Affairs Associate Professor Douglas Singh present Essentials of the US Health Care System, a concise and accessible introduction to available US health care. Written as a textbook especially for students considering a profession in the field, yet also accessible to lay readers, Essentials of the US Health Care System includes basic information concerning the effects of modern medical technology, the roles of different providers and professionals in US health care, managed care and health networks, long-term care services, and much more. Graphs, charts, and black-and- white photographs round out this excellent primer of basic terms and concepts; each section features a neatly summarized conclusion and a list of references for more information. Also very highly recommended is the author's previous textbook, Delivering Health Care In America: A Systems Approach.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Delivery of Health Care    2. General    3. Health & Fitness    4. Health Care Issues    5. Health Policy    6. Health/Fitness    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Medical care    9. Medical policy    10. United States    11. Family & Health    12. Non-Classifiable    13. Popular medicine   

Reviews (1)

Excellent Service and Product!
I recieved my product as decribed and expeditiously!Thanks so much!!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - General    2. Continuum of care    3. Health Care Delivery    4. Long-term care of the sick    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Nursing Home Care    8. Public Health    9. Terminal Care    10. United States    11. Hospital administration & management    12. Medical / Allied Health Services / General    13. USA   

Subjects:  1. Ethics    2. General    3. Health & Fitness    4. Health/Fitness    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Medical ethics    7. Medical laws and legislation    8. Medical personnel    9. Moral and ethical aspects    10. Professional ethics    11. United States    12. Social law   

Reviews (2)

Essential Resourcefor the Healing Garden Designer
Beautiful organization, research examples to support common-sense recommendations, case studies with pictures, this superb book is the first stop for the healing garden designer.The case studies and design recommendations are grouped by health care setting, which makes the reading more focused.By far the best professional text on the topic.

Aplicaciones para la salud
Creo que es un buen punto de partida para comenzar a incluir en el dise�o del entorno y el paisaje pautas que incluyan un beneficio directo en la salud de quienes lo contemplan. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Occupational Therapy    2. Architecture    3. Gardening    4. Landscape    5. Landscape Architecture And Design    6. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation    7. Therapeutic use    8. Therapeutics (Specific Aspects)    9. Architecture / Landscape    10. Garden design & planning   

Reviews (2)

Hope for Our Sick Hospitals
Since we have had several personal experiences of almost dying or being infected after a medical procedure, we tuned into the PBS broadcast of the documentary "Good News... How Hospitals Heal Themselves". It was so revealing that we got the book for both personal and business reasons. In our business, ESF, Inc., we frequently deal with hospitals and those in the medical and nursing professions. Both my husband, Dr. Peter J. Esseff, and I feel this book should be read by personnel in every hospital from administrator to janitor. The "Systems Thinking" initiatives put into effect by the hospitals in the two "Good News" health care systems (SSM Health Care, St. Louis, Mo. comprised of 23 hospitals, and the Pittsburgh Regional Health Care Initiative, Pittsburgh, PA, comprised of 40 hospitals) demonstrated how a variety of "hospital diseases" could be treated and eventually eradicated. These initiatives were used initially by Dr. W. Edwards Deming in helping Japan "work smarter, not harder" in improving their auto manufacturing industry. In these two health care systems, statistics are given that demonstrate how the hospitals were able to: focus more on patients' needs; reduce costs, deaths, suffering, infections, duplication of services, waste of time and supplies; avoid deadly mistakes; streamline their bureaucracy; and work as a Team, from the top to the bottom of the chain of employees, by not placing blame for errors committed and empowering their workers to recommend changes to improve the quality of care in the hospitals.
Save your life....and others too....
Read this book and give it to your doctor and your hospital administrator and they will learn how to reduce waste, suffering, hospital-acquired infections, costs, errors and improve patient safety and save lives.And additional money or government regulations are not required to begin this improvement plan.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Education & Training    2. Health Care Delivery    3. Hospital Administration    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Medical / Hospital Administration & Care    6. Medical-Education & Training    7. Medical-Health Care Delivery   

Subjects:  1. Medicaid & Medicare    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Medical History & Records    5. Practice Management & Reimbursement    6. Health systems & services    7. Hospital administration & management   

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Data processing    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Medical care    6. Medicine    7. Research    8. Utilization    9. Health systems & services    10. Medical / Administration    11. Medical research    12. Social research & statistics   

Reviews (4)

Desperate to find real help
My wife has been suffering for months with debilitating anxiety.In addition to medication and therapy, we have read about 6 (layman) books on the subject.I found this book to be the only secular book on the subject that offered practical, clear information that really helped.Save your money and order this book first.It is very comprehensive, well organized, and easy to understand.

Magnesium can relieve anxiety; please read this review!
I am very familiar with the pain of anxiety, panic attacks, and agoraphobia for I suffered from these maladies for several decades. During those years of suffering I believed that my problems were purely mental and underwent treatment by psychiatrists, psychologists, and hypnotherapists. I took various prescribed medications and read many books such as this, but experienced little relief. And then something wonderful happened: I began taking a daily supplement of chelated magnesium (for a different ailment) and shortly thereafter experienced a significant diminishment of anxiety in addition to cure of the ailment for which I had originally taken the supplemental magnesium. There seemed to be no explanation for why taking supplemental magnesium caused this wonderful loss of anxiety until the publication in 2003 of the important book The Miracle of Magnesium by Dr. Carolyn Dean. Early in her book Dr. Dean reveals that a major cause of anxiety and panic attacks is deficiency of magnesium and that magnesium deficiency is quite common in the U.S. Therefore, I beg all sufferers of anxiety, panic attacks, and agoraphobia -- whatever else you may do -- please purchase and read The Miracle of Magnesium by Dr. Carolyn Dean and please try the magnesium supplementation which she recommends. It may change your life as it has changed mine.

Beyond the Typical Advise (that you've already heard)
This book is extremely helpful to those who have found other advise too elementary. If you have tried the basics - diet, relaxation, medications - and are not satisfied that you are getting to the ROOT of your problem, try this book. The author helps you discover personality traits and other issues that could be undermining your basic sense of security. I have always considered myself to be a very strong person and I was at a loss when I began experiencing anxiety and panic attacks. I quit caffeine, learned to relax and started eating better. It helped, but I still didn't feel "right." I have gotten much more relief from my symptoms by reading this book. The author asks questions to help the reader explore the BIG things in life, including love, spirituality and having a sense of purpose. He includes a lot of food for thought as well as practical advise on how to build for yourself a secure, meaningful life. The language is very easy to read, written intelligently and respectfully. I highly recommend this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Mood Disorders    3. Panic disorders    4. Phobias    5. Self-Help    6. Coping with illness    7. Holistic medicine   

Subjects:  1. Ethics    2. Ethics Committees, Research    3. Ethics, Medical    4. Institutional review boards (Medicine)    5. Management    6. Medical    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Nursing - General    9. Research    10. organization & administration    11. Research & development management   

Reviews (1)

core curricullum for case management
I found the book very wordy and boring and contained very little information I could use in case management. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Business/Economics    3. Case management services    4. Health Care Delivery    5. Hospitals    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Nursing - Management & Leadership    8. Nursing - Test Preparation & Review    9. Nursing care plans    10. Outlines, syllabi, etc    11. Primary nursing    12. Hospital administration & management    13. Medical / Nursing / Management & Leadership    14. Nursing    15. USA   

Reviews (4)

How to Create Win-Win-Win Partnerships in Health Care

Comprehensive Analysis
The author can be forgiven for writing a book that reads a little more like a formal academic paper, given his illustrious credentials. However, it is a surprisingly comfortable read given the complexity of the industry (if you could call it one industry) and the material covered. His analysis is as comprehensive as it is thought provoking. He does an excellent job of portraying the myriad of complex relationships between various evermore technologically sophisticated players within the health value chain. I would have preferred more coverage and discussion of specific company/organizational profiles. But, his artful and deft handling of the complex subject matter presented in a way that gives the reader many "aha" moments makes this book a must-read for anyone serious about the business of healthcare.

Excellent Industry Overview
For anyone working in the manufacturing or distribution industry within pharmaceutical, diagnostic or medical device companies, this book offers an excellent oversight. Its very helpful for anyone doing business analyst work in a technology department who is new to the industry, but wants to come up to speed rapidly. I recommend it for everyone in my department.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Economic aspects    3. Health Care Delivery    4. Industries - General    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Medical care    8. Miscellanea    9. Organizational effectiveness    10. Physical distribution of goods    11. Health systems & services    12. Medical / Administration    13. Pharmaceutical industries    14. USA   

Reviews (1)

Great
The quick service of getting this book for a college course was great. Thanks for being quick. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Health & Fitness    2. Health services administration    3. Health/Fitness    4. Hospital Administration    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Medical care    7. Quality control    8. Total quality management    9. United States    10. Vision   

Reviews (3)

Obviously not the first shot at the material.
The author created an invaluable tool to help begineers understand the rather complicated topic of managed care using a straightforward linear approach to the topic.All topics are covered early with references to indepth coverage found later in the volume.
Management of Managed Care
The book was easy to understand and was written from the perspective of someone who is unfamiliar with the managed care topic.I recommend it highly

Excellent Overview of Managed Care
Excellent, comprehensive primer on the intricacies of managed care.Covers all the major topics, including delivery systems, public and private sector forms of managed care, regulatory and legal issues, medicalmanagement, information systems, and operational issues.Thoughtfully doneby Dr. Peter R. Kongstvedt and contributors. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Health Care Delivery    2. Medicaid & Medicare    3. Medical    4. Medical / Nursing    5. Medical Law & Legislation    6. Family & Health    7. Medicine: General Issues   

Reviews (3)

I hate this book!!
I absolutely without a doubt hate this book.It is a required book for a course that I am taking.It uses way to many initials instead of writing the complete name of each organization, so unless you have one heck of a memory you arn't sure which organization that those initials stand for.It is a very hard book to sit down and read because it is way to boring, the authors go on and on about about the topics instead of presenting the topics in a clear straight forward way.The questions at the end of each chapter are mostly based on your opinion, so you are never quite sure if your answer is correct or not.I can't wait till this class is over so that I never have to read this book again!!!

fast service book not in condition described
I received the book in four days of order. In the description it said "good condition, no writing or highlighting inside book. Good buy!" The book has a ton of highlighting throughout. Not such a good buy.

U wanna know why this is an excellent book
I rate this book as an excellent book because it has covered a wide variety of things you would like to learn in health services. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health Care Delivery    4. Health Care Issues    5. Health facilities    6. Health/Fitness    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Practice Management & Reimbursement    9. Health systems & services   

Subjects:  1. Medical    2. Practice Management & Reimbursement