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Business Ethics in Healthcare is an examination of a wide range of practical ethical issues facing conscientious healthcare managers. The discussion explores the implications of applying ethical standards and reasoning to the organization's responsibilities as care provider, as employer, as citizen of the community. more...

Price: $28.00

This book is directed to practicing and student nurses, health care professionals invloved in putting information systems in place, and information technology profesionals working in the health sector. Its objective is to provide these health workers with a basic source of facts on the use and implementation of standards in clinical and administrative documentation. A compelling case is made about the importance of appropriately documenting nursing care, in order to facilitate analyses of nursing activities, the provision of quality and evidence-based direct patient care, and promotion of continuity of service. Standardized documentation also is requred for communicating nursing concepts, interventions, and outcomes to other nurses and health professionals working in different settings and countries. This book focuses on key issues of modern nursing practice and illustrates how information technology support for the implementation and use of standard-based practice can improve clinical and management nursing functions. more...

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Professor Herzlinger documents how the consumer-driven health care movement is being implemented and its impact on insurers, providers, new intermediaries, and governments. With additional contributions by health care’s leading strategists, innovators, regulators and scholars, Consumer-Driven Health Care presents a compelling vision of a health care system built to satisfy the people it serves. This comprehensive resource includes the most important thinking on the topic and compelling case studies of consumer-driven health care (CDHC) in action, here and abroad, including new consumer-driven intermediaries for information and support; types of insurance plans; focused factories for delivering health care; personalized drugs and devices; and government roles. more...

Price: $65.00

El propósito de esta guía es orientar a los formuladores de políticas de los sistemas de seguridad pública al considerar la posibiidad de establecer un sistema de servicios de emergencias médicas (SSEM). Esta guía está basada en la experiencia y la historia de un modelo frecuentemente utilizado en los Estados Unidos y muchos países europeos, y destaca los aspectos más comunes de los elementos centrales de esos sistemas. Se prevé que este documento pueda ser utilizado por los formuladores de políticas en los ministerios de salud y seguridad pública, comisiones responsables de establecer, superviar y promocionar servicicos de emergencias médicas, como marco de referncia a la hora de diseñar el modelo de su sistema. more...

Price: $32.00

E-Health Care Information Systems is a comprehensive collection written by leading experts from a range of disciplines including medicine, health sciences, engineering, business information systems, general science, and computing technology. This easily followed text provides a theoretical framework with sound methodological approaches and is filled with numerous case examples. more...

Price: $75.00