Introduction to the Complexity of Health Care. Health Care Services: Difficult to Define, Difficult to Measure. The Unique Role of the Physician. Patients as Challenging Customers. Measuring Returns from Health Care IT Investments. Increasing Complexity of Medicine. Clinical Data Management and...

Introduction -- Grounded dual contingency model of leadership effectiveness -- Creating a caring and safe environment -- Transformation from hidden to visible leadership -- Transformation from inflexible to receptive leadership -- Transformation from intuitive to deliberate leadership --...

part Section I: Pressures for Change -- chapter 1 Access -- chapter 2 Cost -- chapter 3 Quality -- chapter Conclusion to Section I -- chapter Introduction -- chapter 4 Align Incentives via Payment System Design -- chapter 5 Managed Care Organizations, Accountable Care Organizations, and...

The pivotal role of employer paid health insurance -- An alternate universe : life without the tax subsidy -- How to get there from here and also grow the economy -- Who might support or oppose our proposal? -- What else needs fixing? -- Pre-existing conditions and the individual mandate --...

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Author; SECTION I: INDUSTRY DYSFUNCTION: ITS ROOT CAUSES AND EFFECTS; 1: It's Not the Future We Used to Have; The Old Future; The Curves of Health Care; The Root Causes of Industry Dysfunction; The Economic Human and the...

Acknowledgements -- The problem -- Where it all started -- The Swedish roots of the American welfare state -- Exporting egalitarianism to America -- Problem 1: Fiscal eugenics -- Problem 2: Slow growth -- Problem 3: Government debt -- Conclusion -- Reference list -- Index.

Introduction -- Organization structure -- Organizational culture -- Performance management -- Financial management -- Human resource management -- Procurement management -- Policy making -- Capital management -- Information-technology management -- Appendix A: Meeting the NASPAA universal...

1. Capitalism in crisis -- 2. Accountancy : capitalism's handmaiden -- 3. The deplorable state of accountancy practice -- 4. The reform of capitalism : the stakeholder theory of the firm -- 5. The reform of accountancy : stakeholder reporting -- 6. Sustainability reporting : the GRI's initiative...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Learning From Inter-Organizational Collaboration in Action: Overcoming Barriers in Affordable-Housing Collaborations -- chapter 3 The ABCDS (Autonomy, Boundary Spanning, Common Vision, and Design Attitude) of Successful Collaboration -- chapter 4 Mutually...