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by Dolorita Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Do you know what medical care your insurance covers? Do you understand when Medicare may stop paying for medical care or that Medicare managed care plans require approval for care the same as commercial insurance plans? This book contains information for everyone but all information pertains to everyone....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Since its beginning, Buddhism has been intimately concerned with confronting and understanding death and dying. Indeed, the tradition emphasizes turning toward the realities of sickness, old age, and death - and using those very experiences to develop wisdom and liberating compassion. In recent decades,...
by William J. Ward Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Today's health care managers, frequently, were yesterday's technicians, physicians, and nurses. This puts them in an interesting predicament, since they know the health care side of the business but often lack the financial management skills necessary to create budgets and manage finances in a health...
Making Medicare
The Politics of Universal Health Care in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Since the 1980s, Australians have had a system of universal health care that is often taken for granted. But the road there wasn’t easy. Making Medicare is a comprehensive account of Australia’s long, tortuous, and unconventional path toward universal health care—as it was established, abolished,...
Provider-Led Population Health Management
Key Strategies for Healthcare in the Cognitive Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Provider-Led Population Health Management: Key Healthcare Strategies in the Cognitive Era, Second Edition draws connections among the new care-delivery models, the components of population health management, and the types of health IT that are required to support those components. The key concept...
The Internet and Health Care
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The Internet and Health Care: Theory, Research, and Practice presents an in-depth introduction to the field of health care and the Internet, from international and interdisciplinary perspectives. It combines expertise in the areas of the social sciences, medicine, policy, and systems analysis. With...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Medical and health activities can greatly benefit from the effective use of health informatics. By capturing, processing, and disseminating information to the correct systems and processes, decision-making can be more successful and quality care and patient safety would see significant improvements....
by Julie Bracken, Dr Cecily Morrison, Dr Matthew R. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
The complex IT requirements of a critical care unit have led to the development of numerous information systems. In this concise handbook, the authors share their experience and research findings on how to unleash the power of the technology and overcome potential problems. Clinical Information Systems...
by Andrew Webb
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The global trend of increasingly ageing societies and long term illnesses has meant a growth in demand for intensive care resources. This book advises on leadership and organizational development of intensive care units, in order to give best practices for governance, performance, emergency response...
E-Patients Live Longer
The Complete Guide to Managing Health Care Using Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
e-Patients Live Longer, The Complete Guide to Managing Health Care Using Technology is a comprehensive guidebook on using e-tools to facilitate the complexities of our health care system. The book illustrates how the communication tools that consumers use every day: digital records, email, the Internet,...
Malpractice
A Neurosurgeon Reveals How Our Health Care System Harms Patients and Protects Dangerous Doctors
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
An insider’s devastating critique of modern medical practices and “an honest view of what our broken health-care system looks like” (Patricia J. Skolnik, president, Citizens for Patient Safety, LLC).
In 1991, the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report revealing that as many...
Talking About Death Won’t Kill You
The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This practical handbook will equip readers with the tools to have meaningful conversations about death and dying
Death is a part of life. We used to understand this, and in the past, loved ones generally died at home with family around them. But in just a few generations, death has become a...
by Joseph R. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
How prepared are you to guide your baby through the first and most important year of his life?
There's nothing quite like a baby's first months of life, as they are arguably the ones that will have the most impact throughout their entire development.
First-time parents and veterans...
Critical Reflection in Context
Applications in Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Critical reflection enables practitioners – especially those within health and social care –to theorise from their own practice, improving and developing their work and practising both creatively and professionally.
This book provides an accessible overview of the influential Fook/Gardner...