The Management of Health Care

Front Cover
William J. Abernathy, Alan Sheldon, C. K. Prahalad
Ballinger Publishing Company, 1974 - Health services administration - 315 pages
The essential purpose of this book is to draw attention to the problems of managing the creation and use of technology in health care, whether that means a new blood pressure machine or a new way of doing something, whether directly involved in the medical treatment process, e.G., The nurse practitioner, or in the management of that process, e.G., A management information system. The first section deals with research and development. The second section deals with the problems of introducing and diffusing new technology in the health care system. The third deals with the impact and consequences of technology in health organization, and the final section with the problems of evaluation and values as these affect critical decision choices.

Contents

Contents
xxv
The Scope of This Paper
xxv
List of Figures xiii
xxv
Chapter
3
Chapter
9
References
17
Overview of the Literature
90
References
103
Some Ways Technology Impacts the Organization
191
Conclusions
198
Chapter Fourteen
205
Prevention versus Therapy
211
TP at SMCH
221
Chapter Sixteen
229
Ramifications for the Community and Its Health Care Institutions
241
References
250

A Research and Innovation Group for an HMO
120
Planning and Implementing a Medical Information System
134
A Critical Assessment
141
The Human Interface
147
The Dynamic Adaptive Health System
154
An Example
161
References
173
Management Characteristics
180
Chapter Seventeen
255
References
261
References
267
Physician Productivity
274
References
280
References
289
CostBased Reimbursement as a Tax Rate
292
Index
305

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