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Dr. Richard L. Reece's Innovation-Driven Health Care: 36 Key Concepts for Transformation offers an accessible and compelling, in-depth look at important innovative trends in the healthcare industry. Written for practicing physicians, hospital-physician joint venturers, corporation benefit officers, health plan executives, healthcare reformers, and leaders of the consumer movement, this unique text is a must-have resource featuring six sections on small practice innovations, large group practice innovations, hospital/physician relationship innovations, employer/health plan innovations, cost constraints/reform innovations, and consumer-driven innovations. Each chapter includes clear descriptions and examples of the moving forces behind medical innovation and the state of the industry from the physician's and consumer's perspective, with comprehensive cases studies from leaders in the healthcare industry, illustrating practical use and implementation of each trend.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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This book makes the case for 'ordinary' people to get the health and social care which the state has promised them for over 60 years but which has not been delivered. What is the case for choice? How can choice be made real for the individual? What impact can genuine, individually financially-empowered choice have on effective funding, purchasing, delivery, and outcomes? How can a genuine market grow and thrive? How can the quest for choice include the large numbers of NHS and social care staff on whom success depends? The book urges individual financial empowerment, through a life-long health savings account for all NHS and social services.
Physicians offer candid, insightful comments as they reflect on their profession, in this work that looks at what it's like to be a doctor in today's highly regulated and often dysfunctional healthcare system.
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Intensive care patients are the most critically ill in any hospital and they are a patient group that utilises a disproportionate amount of medical resources. Intensive care medicine, around for about 40 years, is a relatively recent but globally expanding specialty due to a growing geriartric population of discerning demand for health system.The older generation of intensivists are approaching retirement. The middle generation is trained in various medical specialties and then subspecialised in intensive care. These doctors now lead the way in clinical practice, research, management and training. On the other hand, the younger generation of intensivists includes an ever increasing number of...