Managed Care
Published on 9. May 2008
109 pages
978-1-84663-883-1 (ISBN)
Description
A steady flow of efficiency and effectiveness-focused Managed Care articles in recent months have prompted the launch of this special edition. Managed Care services are one-stop healthcare provider networks, such as Health Maintenance and Preferred Provider Organizations (HMO and PPO). Financial control and service quality as well as practice regulation and shared risk taking are important considerations in these organizations. This poses the question that even if Managed Care regulators keep service quality on the front burner and finances aren't allowed to dominate then is there a risk that QA gets lost in the Managed Care milieu? In this e-book the authors have pushed back the frontiers to generate original insights in to the efficiency and effectiveness of Managed Care organizations.
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Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
- Editorial
- Quality of health care in the US managed care system
- Seamless healthcare delivery systems
- LIFENET hospitals (India): developing new services' case study
- Business process re-engineering - saviour or just another fad?
- Managed care's clinical and economic impact on patients with type II diabetes in France
- Implementing QA programs in managed care health plans: factors contributing to success
- Point of care testing to improve glycemic control
- Call for papers
