Alignment : a provider's guide to managing the practice of health care /: a provider's guide to managing the practice of health care. ([2013?])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Alignment : a provider's guide to managing the practice of health care /: a provider's guide to managing the practice of health care. ([2013?])
- Main Title:
- Alignment : a provider's guide to managing the practice of health care
- Further Information:
- Note: Paul A. Sommers.
- Authors:
- Sommers, Paul A
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Changes in Health Care Practice: Prevention and Management of Disease; Proactive Considerations; Provider's Self-Analysis, Targets, and Benchmarks; Provider Group Self-Needs Assessment; Optimizing the Provider's Role; The New Medical Economics; Mental Attitude, Mind-Set, and Consciousness; Changing Roles, Issues of Reimbursement, and Capitation; Healthy Outcomes-One Patient at a Time; Challenges of the Twenty-First Century; Summary; Chapter 2. Using Information; Proactive Considerations; Defining Alignment. Selecting Targets for Business SuccessImplementing Action to Achieve Desired Outcomes; Summary; Chapter 3. Top-Down ₃!Bottom-Up ₁!Planning; Proactive Considerations; Organization-Wide Participation; Case Example: Strategic Plan Development tor Metropolitan-Based Multispecialty Physician Group and Regional Tertiary Care Hospital; Outcomes Management and Continuous Improvement; Case Example: Developing a Community-Based Primary Care Group and Hospital Strategic Plan; Case Example: Health Plans' Managed Care Strategic Plan; Summary; Chapter 4. Aligning Focus, Measurement, and Outcomes. Proactive ConsiderationsInferential Management and Continuous Improvement; Begin with the Desired Outcomes in Mind; Establishing a Basis for Health Care Decision Support; Outcomes Management System; Summary; Chapter 5. Customer-Focused Care; Proactive Considerations; Understanding That Consumer Satisfaction Is the Only Way ofCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Changes in Health Care Practice: Prevention and Management of Disease; Proactive Considerations; Provider's Self-Analysis, Targets, and Benchmarks; Provider Group Self-Needs Assessment; Optimizing the Provider's Role; The New Medical Economics; Mental Attitude, Mind-Set, and Consciousness; Changing Roles, Issues of Reimbursement, and Capitation; Healthy Outcomes-One Patient at a Time; Challenges of the Twenty-First Century; Summary; Chapter 2. Using Information; Proactive Considerations; Defining Alignment. Selecting Targets for Business SuccessImplementing Action to Achieve Desired Outcomes; Summary; Chapter 3. Top-Down ₃!Bottom-Up ₁!Planning; Proactive Considerations; Organization-Wide Participation; Case Example: Strategic Plan Development tor Metropolitan-Based Multispecialty Physician Group and Regional Tertiary Care Hospital; Outcomes Management and Continuous Improvement; Case Example: Developing a Community-Based Primary Care Group and Hospital Strategic Plan; Case Example: Health Plans' Managed Care Strategic Plan; Summary; Chapter 4. Aligning Focus, Measurement, and Outcomes. Proactive ConsiderationsInferential Management and Continuous Improvement; Begin with the Desired Outcomes in Mind; Establishing a Basis for Health Care Decision Support; Outcomes Management System; Summary; Chapter 5. Customer-Focused Care; Proactive Considerations; Understanding That Consumer Satisfaction Is the Only Way of Doing Business Successfully; Excellence Is Everything; Quality, Consumer Satisfaction, and the Practice of Medicine; Myths and Other Misunderstandings About Medical Practice; Looking at Health Care from the Patient's Perspective. Making Consumer Satisfaction a Way of Doing BusinessBecoming Consumer Oriented; The Physician's Role in Developing a Consumer-Oriented Initiative; How Consumers Select and Evaluate Physicians; The Role of Management in Developing a Consumer-Oriented Initiative; The Role of Nonphysician Staff in Making a Consumer-Oriented Initiative Work; From Initial Call for Appointment to Billing: Treating the Patient Right; Tips for Providing High-Quality Service; Consumer Satisfaction: An Overview; Summary; Chapter 6. Special Applications; Proactive Considerations; Consumer Satisfaction Redefined. Rank Ordering Clinical PrioritiesBenchmarking: The Search for Best Practices; Forecasting/Predicting Outcomes: The Inferential Evaluation Model (IEM); Enhanced Data Support Methodology (EDSM); Management Decision Process; Process Mapping: Physician, Hospital, and Health Plan Billing Cycle Redesign; Integration: Physician/Hospital Outcomes Analysis; Goals and Results of Clinic/Hospital Integration of Business Office; Key Indicator Definitions and Drill-Down Analysis: Preparation for Action Plan Development; Report Cards; Physician/Practitioner Information Systems. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Copyright Date:
- 1999
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 362.1068
Medicine -- Practice
Health services administration
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
Health services administration
Medicine -- Practice
Health Services Administration
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- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781317948445
1317948440 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780789006356
0789006359 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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