The Management of Health CareWilliam J. Abernathy, Alan Sheldon, C. K. Prahalad 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 |