Innovation, Collective Intelligence and Resiliency in Healthcare Organizations


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Resilience in healthcare organizations is a complex issue, involving all stakeholders in the healthcare field. It is a highly topical issue, even more so in the wake of the recent health crisis. This book explores the impact of collective intelligence on the resilience of these organizations, and the role played by innovation. Health organizations comprise the structures and systems involved in treating patients, as well as healthcare professionals with medical, social or medico-social expertise, along with institutional and administrative players in the field. Innovation, Collective Intelligence and Resiliency in Healthcare Organizations alternates between theoretical readings and illustrative case studies. Their diversity is the result of their contributors: university researchers, institutional players from healthcare authorities, practicing caregivers in hospital structures or healthcare coordination support systems, and managers of healthcare structures and systems.




The Law of Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations


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A complete and up-to-date legal resource for administrators of tax-exempt healthcare organizations, the Third Edition equips you with a comprehensive, one-volume source of detailed information on federal, state, and local laws covering tax-exempt healthcare organizations. The Third Edition of this practical, down-to-earth book tackles complex legal issues by providing you with plain-English explanations and the appropriate legal citations for further research.




The New Navigators


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The extensive use of the web by patients and laymen for health information, challenges us to build information services that are easily accessible and trustworthy. The evolution towards a semantic web is addressed and papers covering all the fields of biomedical informatics are also included. [Ed.].




Intelligent Agents in Data-intensive Computing


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This book presents new approaches that advance research in all aspects of agent-based models, technologies, simulations and implementations for data intensive applications. The nine chapters contain a review of recent cross-disciplinary approaches in cloud environments and multi-agent systems, and important formulations of data intensive problems in distributed computational environments together with the presentation of new agent-based tools to handle those problems and Big Data in general. This volume can serve as a reference for students, researchers and industry practitioners working in or interested in joining interdisciplinary work in the areas of data intensive computing and Big Data systems using emergent large-scale distributed computing paradigms. It will also allow newcomers to grasp key concepts and potential solutions on advanced topics of theory, models, technologies, system architectures and implementation of applications in Multi-Agent systems and data intensive computing.




Clinical Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications


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"This multi-volume book delves into the many applications of information technology ranging from digitizing patient records to high-performance computing, to medical imaging and diagnostic technologies, and much more"--




Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care


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Healthcare organizations are experiencing rapid and complex changes in delivery of care, and nurses and health care providers must possess the leadership skills to navigate such change. Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care, Seventh Edition provides strategies for handling periods of transformation while creating a healing environment for both providers and patients. With clarity and depth of detail, it features theories about contemporary leadership within today's complex and diverse healthcare delivery system. It works from a model of complexity leadership, in which leadership is not limited to those with certain titles but an attribute that every healthcare worker can develop for success in fast-moving, information-overloaded organizations. With Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care, Seventh Edition, nursing students will feel confident in their leadership skills to manage changes in delivery of care with optimal patient-centered care.




Quantum Leadership:Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care


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Quantum Leadership: Creating Sustainable Value in Health Care, Fifth Edition provides students with a solid overview and understanding of leadership in today’s complex healthcare delivery system. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.




Health Care Ethics


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The Capitation Sourcebook


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Here's a challenge to conventional wisdom that will change the way you think about capitation. This hands-on resource is a collection of articles detailing the most advanced methods used by leading healthcare operational experts on how to provide high-quality care at less cost; manage financial risk more efficiently; design operational, clinical and information systems to meet the needs of patients, practitioners and managed care organizations; structure financial incentives to promote successful collaborations and make the transition from fee-for-service to risk-sharing arrangements. You'll find practical examples of how to build the trust necessary to create win-win solutions to problems that arise between competing yet interdependent interests of the various stakeholders. Edited by Peter Boland, PhD, and based on a "best practices" approach, each of the articles in the book illustrate compensation methodologies that have been successfully implemented with the support of physicians and hospitals.




The Coordination of European Public Hospital Systems


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This book engages theoretically and empirically with the unprecedented wave of public management reforms in public hospitals in Europe in the past 25 years. It provides a useful overview of these reforms and studies the way in which they have influenced the ability of national policy-making institutions to co-ordinate the system of public hospitals as a whole. Using a comparative structure, as well as original empirical data collected by the author, the book examines case studies on which little has so far been published for an international audience in English.