Hospitals & Health Care Organizations

This book addresses decreasing revenues, increasing costs, and growing consumer expectations in today's health care market. Offering practical experience and applied operating vision, the authors integrate Lean managerial applications and regulatory perspectives with real-world case studies, models, reports, charts, tables, diagrams, and sample contracts. The result is an integration of post PP-ACA market competition insight with Lean management and operational strategies. Coverage includes hard-to-find topics such as hospital inventory management, capital formation, and revenue cycle enhancement.

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. David Edward Marcinko is a health care economist, managerial and technology futurist, and former board-certified surgeon from Temple University in Philadelphia. In the past, he edited seven practice-management books, three medical texts in two languages, five financial planning books, dozens of interactive CD-ROMs, and three comprehensive administrative dictionaries for physicians, accountants, attorneys, medical management consultants, and health care business advisors. Internationally recognized for his work, he provides litigation support and expert witness testimony in State and Federal Court, and has clinical publications archived in the Library of Congress and the Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. His thought leadership essays have been cited in journals such as Managed Care Executives, Healthcare Informatics, Medical Interface, Plastic Surgery Products, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, Orthodontics Today, Chiropractic Products, Journal of the American Medical Association, Podiatry Today, Investment Advisor Magazine, Registered Representative, Financial Advisor Magazine, CFP Biz (Journal of Financial Planning), Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA.ama-assn.org), The Business Journal for Physicians, and Physician's Money Digest; by companies and professional organizations such as the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), American College of Medical Practice Executives (ACMPE), American College of Physician Executives (ACPE), American College of Emergency Room Physicians (ACEP), Health Care Management Associates (HMA), and PhysiciansPractice.com; and by academic institutions such as the UCLA School of Medicine, Northern University College of Business, Creighton University, Medical College of Wisconsin, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine,

On the Origins and Development of Quality Initiatives in American Business. Competitive Analysis of the Contemporary Healthcare Ecosystem. Capital Formation Strategies for Healthcare Entities. Inventory Management and Economic Order Quantity Analysis. Improving Operations and Management to Achieve Objectives. Financial and Clinical Features of Hospital Information Systems. Managing Health Information Technology Security Risks. Monitoring, Managing and Enhancing Hospital Revenue Cycles. Patient (Customer) Relations Management in Healthcare. Healthcare Organization Compliance Processes and Tactics. Reviewing OSHA Standards and Health Policy Practices. Operational Impact ofHIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and the USA PATRIOT ACT. Understanding Continuous Healthcare Process Improvement. Using Medical Informatics to Track Health Care. Appreciating Six-Sigma Healthcare Quality Improvement. A Concluding Example of Hospital-Flow Through Efficiency Logistics.