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Healthcare Finance: An Introduction to Accounting and Financial Management (2nd Edition)

Meet new demands for managerial competencies in both accounting and financial management. By giving equal treatment to both accounting and finance concepts, this book teaches you not only how to measure financial performance, but how to use the information to make better financial decisions. Topics covered include: * Management accounting * Financial analysis * Long-term financing * Capital investment decisions

MBA Handbook for Healthcare Professionals

Practice management continues to be an area of growing importance, especially in the light of the increasing visibility of managed care with respect to private practice. The business aspects of medicine have acquired even greater significance. Establishing a mission for your practice allows you to convey who you are, what you want to be, and how you want to get there. Allowing a practice to be 'focused' is an investment that will pay big dividends.

The Future U.S. Healthcare System: Who Will Care for the Poor and Uninsured?

There are 43 million uninsured Americans (and millions more underinsured), because the richest country in the world has yet to develop the consensus that would provide every citizen with access to an appropriate range of health care services, regardless of health status or personal income. The problem of the uninsured persists in a country that is enjoying the benefits of one of its most sustained economic expansions and where there is even the prospect of achieving a balanced budget in 1998.

Business Planing For Healthcare Management

(Open University Press) Addresses planning strategies that will work for healthcare organizations. Advice and aids are designed to help readers with easy-to-find answers to common planning questions. For hospital managers, clinical practitioners, and those new to management. British-oriented. Softcover, hardcover not yet available.

Healthcare Human Resource Management

With additional standards now required by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, practitioners must go through even more preparation for certification in order to successfully demonstrate competency in patient care, governance, life safety code and human resource management. Human Resource Management for Healthcare Professionals provides complete coverage of relevant applications for JCAHO, as well as offers a solid foundation in both HR and health care administrative practices.

Understanding Healthcare Financial Management, Fourth Edition

Finance in Brief: Six Key Concepts for Healthcare Leaders, Second Edition

Intended to help you "over the hump," Finance in Brief: Six Key Concepts for Healthcare Leader, Second Edition explains the six key principles of effective healthcare financial management. The book's approachable question-and-answer format will help you locate answers to specific financial questions quickly and easily.

Marketing the Continuum of Care: Strategies for Developing Community Services (HFMA Healthcare Financial Management)

Marketing the Continuum of Care serves as a reference for understanding target markets and potential promotional mediums and how to apply various techniques. The book demonstrates that effective marketing can be used as an internal educational tool and in external referral development.

The Healthcare Practitioner's Handbook of Management

The American system of healthcare is rapidly changing. Today, more and more of an emphasis is being placed on management skills-organizing, coordinating and managing the resources required for providing quality patient care. Medical practitioners are now expected to be efficient administrators as well as skilled clinicians. Although some may see this as a difficult hurdle, The Healthcare Practitioner's Handbook of Management shows that many healthcare providers are already well-prepared to perform management roles effectively.

The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization (Fifth Edition)

This book is the definitive resource on managing all aspects of a healthcare delivery organization-from attracting patients to improving the quality of care to managing the physical plant. This new edition includes extensively updated chapters on information systems, performance measurement and quality improvement, physician organization design, clinical support services, and nursing. Not strictly hospital-based, the book emphasizes the importance of the continuum of care and includes a new chapter on prevention and non-acute services.

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