Paradox and imperatives in health care
Subtitle: how efficiency, effectiveness, and e-transformation can conquer waste and optimize quality
By: Jeffrey C. Bauer, Mark Hagland ; foreword by David B. Nash.
Contributors: Hagland, Mark.
Publisher: Productivity Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781563273797
Subjects: Health services administration -- Economic aspects; Organizational effectiveness; Organizational change; Health care reform; Medical care -- Cost effectiveness; Medical care -- Quality control; Efficiency, Organizational; Hospital Administration -- economics; Health Care Reform; Information Management; Organizational Innovation -- economics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157) and index.
Table of contents: title: The economic challenge : approaching chaos; title: The economic imperative : efficiency (cost); title: The clinical imperative : effectiveness (quality); title: The common denominator : information technology; title: Becoming efficient and effective : case studies; title: Performance improvement methodologies to organize and manage change; title: Organizational success factors for efficiency and effectiveness; title: Resolving the paradox : foundations for successful system reform.