Innovation in Community-Based Private Practices Through Ehealth
There are many definitions of eHealth and no consensus around the underlying idea. Most contributions on eHealth focus on informatic, public health, legal, social and anthropological implications. This book investigates eHealth through community-based private practices such as pharmacies, hearing centres, opticians, and private medical centres from a management perspective. It first presents a systematic review of the theoretical research models that have been developed on eHealth. It then identifies the many innovative managerial implications of eHealth, and finally, it analyses reasons why some eHealth tools are or are not adopted.
Business Process Management in Healthcare Organizations
This book is an overview of healthcare organization business processes including business process management approaches as well as a discussion of healthcare organization entrepreneurship as a business process. This book is for you if you are interested in the world of business processes and business process management in healthcare organizations in the United States. This book is for those with a developing interest in healthcare organization operations as they pertain to business processes and their management. It is also suitable for those who have some expertise, but who wish an overview or refresher of these topics. Unlike most other texts, this book has an agenda or purpose aimed at aiding the reader. The book knows that you have your own specific personal goals regarding business processes in healthcare organizations (e.g., improve your ability to facilitate the management of business processes in a healthcare organization, improve your healthcare administration skills, learn more about business processes in healthcare organizations in general). The purpose of this book is to enable you to develop your own learning path to reach your learning goal regardless of what that goal happens to be. The intent of the book is to provide you with content and resources to pursue a personal learning path. That content extends past the reading of this text and will help you in your chosen work or study.The unique purpose of the book requires a unique format. The format includes tons of resources (some would say encyclopedic) coupled with the Socratic Method and suggested competency development tasks. The Socratic Method promotes understanding of a topic by posing questions on that topic. Answering the question requires a learner/reader to think critically and synthesize information. The overall competency goal for all readers of this book is that it enables each reader to think more critically and more independently about business processes in healthcare organizations. The book is organized into four (4) lessons. Each lesson is organized around competency objectives, questions, readings, competency development tasks (e.g., quiz) to organize your thinking and cement your learning. It is a format which makes extensive use of the resources available on the internet. As such the book provides links to external sites to connect you to the larger "real world" of healthcare organizations to help you better build your own learning path. The links also serve as resources you can use after you complete this book. Many might say that that the most valuable part of this book is the list of resources provided for the reader. These links (more than 550) are directly accessible in the content in the e-book version. For the print version - and for reference in the e-book version - the full URL for each link in the book can be found at the corresponding in-text link number [bib#] in the section at the end of the book entitled Bibliography: Associated URL/Link List. The list includes data, management, and research links needed for healthcare administration, management, and operations related to business processes in a healthcare organization.The competency development tasks in this book facilitate content mastery to help you organize your thinking. Such organized thought should help you determine the relationship between the book content, a personal learning path, and achievement of personal goals. Competency development tasks in this book are: discussion questions, quizzes, and a project. Again, this is a Socratic approach in that the book asks for your thinking on the topics. The included suggested project is intended to help you synthesize content material by developing business processes for a healthcare organization of your choice the way you would have things run in the best of all worlds. The suggested design format to communicate these business processes is an electronic memo format.
Losses in Later Life
Achieve faith and understanding when dealing with the loss of a loved one or a major change in your life! Losses in Later Life: A New Way Of Walking with God, Second Edition, focuses on seven major losses: loss of youth, loss of family, loss of parents, loss of work, loss of spouse, loss of health, and loss of identity. This second edition has been reworked with new research to include updated information about the loss of independence and several additional losses not discussed in the previous edition. You will explore the path to becoming a spiritually mature person who has faith and is able to grieve, let go, and release what is lost in order to live a mentally healthy and rewarding life. With this valuable book, you will explore the issues of losses in later life from an approach that integrates psychology and spirituality to help you understand that loss is an inevitable and significant factor in the lives of people over the age of 40. Discussing the dynamics of loss and grief and defining spiritual health, Losses in Later Life examines common losses of the second half of your life from a positive perspective. Caregivers and anyone interested in the psychology and spirituality of aging will find excellent help and suggestions from Losses in Later Life. This book is a necessary tool for spiritually assisting your times of grief and confusion. With proven suggestions and advice, Losses in Later Life serves to enlighten your path through the later years and enrich your soul.
Health MattersEvidence, Critical Social Science, and Health Care in Canada
In Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as nursing, midwifery, home care, pharmaceuticals, medical education, and palliative care. Through their explorations, the book poses questions about the role that the forms of expertise associated with evidence-based health care play in shaping how we understand and organize health services. Authors critique instrumental, managerial ways of knowing health care and focus on how such ways of knowing limit our understandings of and responses to health care problems and are linked with the growing commodification, individualization, and privatization of Canadian health services. Working with analytic perspectives such as feminism, Marxist political economy, critical ethnography, science and technology studies, governmentality studies, and institutional ethnography, the volume demonstrates how critical social science perspectives contribute alternative perspectives about what counts as health care problems and how to best to address them.
Losses in Later Life
Achieve faith and understanding when dealing with the loss of a loved one or a major change in your life! Losses in Later Life: A New Way Of Walking with God, Second Edition, focuses on seven major losses: loss of youth, loss of family, loss of parents, loss of work, loss of spouse, loss of health, and loss of identity. This second edition has been reworked with new research to include updated information about the loss of independence and several additional losses not discussed in the previous edition. You will explore the path to becoming a spiritually mature person who has faith and is able to grieve, let go, and release what is lost in order to live a mentally healthy and rewarding life. With this valuable book, you will explore the issues of losses in later life from an approach that integrates psychology and spirituality to help you understand that loss is an inevitable and significant factor in the lives of people over the age of 40. Discussing the dynamics of loss and grief and defining spiritual health, Losses in Later Life examines common losses of the second half of your life from a positive perspective. Caregivers and anyone interested in the psychology and spirituality of aging will find excellent help and suggestions from Losses in Later Life. This book is a necessary tool for spiritually assisting your times of grief and confusion. With proven suggestions and advice, Losses in Later Life serves to enlighten your path through the later years and enrich your soul.
L瓣rm Im Krankenhaus-Op
Optimale raumakustische Bedingungen und l瓣rmmindernde Ma?nahmen liefern die Basis f羹r konzentriertes Arbeiten und beg羹nstigen die Fehlervermeidung. F羹r den operierenden Arzt k繹nnen Kommunikationsdefizite und Ablenkung konkrete Folgen einer mangelhaften Akustik sein. Philipp Kn繹fler verdeutlicht mit Messungen im Ohrkanal des operierenden Arztes, dass der empfohlene L瓣rm-Maximalpegel am OP-Tisch deutlich 羹berschritten wird. F羹r den untersuchten OP-Saal wurden M繹glichkeiten der Pegelreduktion entwickelt, die sich auch auf andere OP-S瓣le 羹bertragen lassen. Um jedoch einen akustischen Mindeststandard bei der Realisierung von OP-S瓣len zu gew瓣hrleisten, m羹ssen einfache handhabbare Vorgaben in den Planungsprozess implementiert werden. Die Planungsaufgabe "l瓣rmarmer OP" sollte dringend ihren Weg in die Praxis finden, damit die Arbeitsbedingungen f羹r das Personal verbessert werden und auch f羹r den Patienten eine ad瓣quate Umgebung geschaffen wird.
Complex Systems and Population Health
Currently, population health science is an integral part of global academic curricula. For over a century, the principles of the reductionist paradigm have guided population health curricula, training, research, and action. Researchers continue to draw upon these principles when theorizing, conceptualizing, designing studies, analyzing, and devising interventions to tackle complex population health problems. However, unresolved impasses in addressing pressing population health challenges have catalyzed calls for the integration of complex-systems-science-grounded approaches into population health science. Mounting evidence denotes that a complex systems paradigm can bring about dramatic, multipronged changes for education and training, and lead to innovative research, interventions, and policies. Despite the large and untapped promise of complex systems, the haphazard knowledge base from which academics, researchers, students, policymakers, and practitioners can draw has slowed their integration into the population health sciences. This volume fulfils this growing need by providing the knowledge base necessary to introduce a holistic complex systems paradigm in population health science. As such, it is the first comprehensive book in population health science that meaningfully integrates complex systems theory, methodology, modeling, computational simulation, and real-world applications, while incorporating current population health theoretical, methodological and analytical perspectives. It is intended as a programmatic primer across a broad spectrum of population health stakeholders: from university professors and graduate students, to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.
Beyond the Reluctant MoveA Practical Approach to Emotional Wellbeing in Residential Aged C
Do you have a loved one currently living in residential care or likely to move into care in the near future? Do you work in aged care and find that many of your clients experience emotional changes during the transition but you are uncertain how to best help them? The transition into residential aged care is often overwhelming - for the older person and their families. However, there is little information available for loved ones and aged care workers on how to provide emotional support during the change.Until recently, most older people received in-home care from family - but over the last two decades, this has changed. An ageing population, a higher prevalence of dementia, an increase in the retirement age and the burden of financial commitments have seen a boom in the number of people moving into residential aged care.Aged Care Psychology Consultant, Dr Julie Bajic Smith has dedicated her career to improving the wellbeing of older people. In this book she shares her proven and easy to follow non-drug strategies for residential care settings that focus on the strengths and abilities of older people, rather than their limitations.In this book you'll learn: The risk factors that impact emotional health in late lifeThe role of families in promoting wellbeing in older peopleThe importance of self-care for carersStrategies to provide positive and meaningful care.This book contains practical wellbeing tips that can be implement today - and is essential reading for the aged care workforce, family members and loved ones who believe every older person deserves to be heard, understood and loved.
The Little Book of Doctors’ Rules
Clearly the science of medicine has progressed by leaps and bounds over the last twenty years-from computerized surgery to genetic modification. Yet medicine is more than just a science. It is also an art. As medical students complete their education, however, they may find that their training has been focused solely on the mechanics of diagnosis and treatment. While this scientific knowledge is fundamental to proper healthcare, it can overlook the importance of interacting with patients. In an attempt to refocus on how vital it is for doctors to consider their patients in full, Dr. Clifton K. Meador has written The Little Book of Doctors' Rules. It offers simple and concise suggestions to humanize the practice of medicine. In this book, Dr. Meador draws on his nearly sixty-year medical career for nuggets of advice with both compassion and humor. Although there may not be a defined medical disease behind every physical symptom, Dr. Meador reminds us that the reason behind a symptom may be found if a doctor observes and listens carefully to a patient. He believes an effective physician treats a patient, not just a patient's disease. The Little Book of Doctors' Rules offers insightful rules that address a host of topics, which include developing a rapport with patients, treating dementia, and prescribing drugs. Designed for any healthcare professional, these short rules are easily understood and (mostly) non-technical. Here is a small sampling of Dr. Meador's advice, from the sage and somber to the clever and sometimes controversial. While listening to a patient, do not do anything else. Just listen.Stop drug use in treatment whenever possible. If impossible, cease a patient's use of as many drugs as possible whenever possible.Just because you know a lot of physiology, biochemistry, and anatomy does not mean you know anything about people.If all you listen to are symptoms, then all you will hear from your patients are symptoms. In addition to his own rules, Dr. Meador has included advice offered by some of the past giants of medicine. It is no coincidence that their words echo the message of this book, which gets to the true center of the healing arts.
Domestic Violence and Nonfatal Strangulation Assessment
Domestic Violence and Nonfatal Strangulation Assessment is designed to standardize anatomic nomenclature, as it relates to the head and neck, for both new and experienced sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) and sexual assault forensic examiners (SAFEs), first responders, medical residents and physicians, nursing students, and nurse practitioners, including nurse midwives, women's health nurse practitioners, pediatric nurse practitioners, and forensic nurse practitioners. The text will teach readers the language of evidence-based evaluative methods of care for strangulation patients in domestic violence situations.Fifteen strangulation case studies with a clear history, photographic representation, and confirmation of anatomic landmarks and injuries, along with discussions about existing conditions and their influence, identification of injury, evidence-based collection techniques, and treatment based on current standards of practice. Chapters will also include best practice recommendations and other tools to support evaluation and documentation. Offering this workbook to first responders and health care providers will help fulfill their need for basic, peer-reviewed information and will contribute to continuing competence in care for strangulation patients.
Aspectos Psicol籀gicos em Tempos de Pandemia
Ap籀s a 籀tima recep癟瓊o do artigo intitulado "Qual o papel do psic籀logo diante do novo virus?", que publiquei na C獺tedra Aberta de Psicologia e Neuroci礙ncia em 12 de fevereiro de 2020, e, tendo em vista o interesse despertado entre colegas psic籀logos e outras pessoas interessadas em psicologia, decidi escrever este livro, em que o tema da perspectiva psicol籀gica 矇 abordado em tempos de pandemia. Apesar de as informa癟繭es sobre crises sanit獺rias, como a virus, serem muito recentes e, em alguns casos, "mut獺veis", vou apresentar o trabalho com base nos dados atuais e, especialmente, em publica癟繭es de natureza cient穩fica, que tamb矇m incluir瓊o declara癟繭es de diferentes especialistas coletadas por meios de comunica癟瓊o devidamente citados. Um livro acess穩vel a todos que desejam se aprofundar nos aspectos psicol籀gicos de um fen繫meno de massa em tempos de crise de sa繳de, como 矇 o caso da virus.
聶Morir duele?
聶Morir duele? es un libro de relatos en el cual Alejandro Nespral -su autor-, luego de m獺s de diez a簽os trabajando en el campo de los cuidados paliativos, se abre paso al mundo de algunas de las experiencias que m獺s lo marcaron y transmutaron. P獺ginas donde distintas historias se entrelazan con preguntas, aprendizajes y reflexiones. Pero es m獺s que un libro, es un tributo a su memoria y especialmente a todas esas personas que lo hicieron tambi矇n el hombre que es hoy.聶Morir duele? es una invitaci籀n a viajar a algunos rincones de la experiencia humana del dolor y el alivio, del sufrimiento y la enfermedad, de la sanaci籀n y el amor.聶Morir duele? es un proyecto en el cual desde Fundaci籀n Ideas Paliativas en Acci籀n (www.fundacionipa.org) proponemos e invitamos seguir hablando de algunos temas, de los que a veces cuestan, pero que siempre nos transforman y nos vuelven m獺s humanos. Es tambi矇n, otra forma para intentar difundir los Cuidados Paliativos.
Queering Public Health and Public Policy in the Deep South (hc)
In this volume, authors explore the interconnected issues of public health and public policy as they relate to queer issues in the Deep South. The book begins with a sustained examination of public health, health disparities, and mental health for LGBTQ people in the South. Next, the issues of public policy and public advocacy, including law enforcement, community advocacy and activism, and public life in the Deep South are taken up.Through the chapters in this text, the peculiarities of public health and public policy for LGBTQ people in the Deep South are explored. However, this volume also points to trends, themes, and dynamics at work in the Deep South that are also implicated in the queer experience in other parts of the U.S. The authors of this text push readers to think deeply about these issues. They clearly highlight the systemic nature of oppression of queer people in the South through institutions of medicine, mental health discourses, the criminal justice system, and public life including Pride and Mardi Gras. Taken together, the authors in this volume call for reform, liberation, and conscientization and queerly envision the future of health and policy in the Deep South.
The Doctor’s Ultimate Guide to Contracts and NegotiationsTheDoctor’s Ultimate Guide to Con
"The Doctor's Ultimate Guide to Contracts and Negotiations" is a must-have manual for new and practicing doctors that fills the information gap left by medical education and training on preparing current and future doctors to successfully navigate transitioning into their first or next practice. This critical 300-page guide to understanding contracts, which is the most important document in a doctor's professional and personal life, will enable doctors to: - Become empowered by over 60 Power Moves for Doctors during Contract Negotiations- Recognize the Top 10 Contract Mistakes Physicians Make- Understand the Top 5 Most Important Contract Terms (Hint: Salary is NOT one of them!)- Develop a plan of attack when reading any contract using the RISC Analysis(TM)- Build Confidence with 6 Easy Yet Critical Negotiation Prep Steps- And Much More, including an accompanying Personal Power Moves Workbook with Customizable Blueprints, Worksheets, and ChecklistsAlleviate stress, anxiety and fear precipitated by analyzing & negotiating contracts!With over 18 years of experience as physician educator, entrepreneur and coach, Dr. Bonnie Simpson Mason, a retired orthopaedic surgeon, has written "The Doctor's Ultimate Guide to Contracts and Negotiations" because she believes with the right information, tools and resources, every doctor can employ an informed decision-making process when facing critical contract and negotiation decisions. If you are a doctor or if you know a doctor, this book is the single best gift one could ever give!
Improving Patient Care
Strategies for successfully updating and improving health care organizations of all kinds Health care is always evolving and improving. However, the rapid speed of medical advancement can make the adoption of new technologies and practices a challenging process - particularly in large organizations and complex networks. Any projected impact upon quality and outcomes of care must be carefully evaluated so that changes may be implemented in the most efficacious and efficient manner possible. Improving Patient Care equips professionals and policymakers with the knowledge required to successfully optimize health care practice. By integrating scientific evidence and practical experience, the text presents a cohesive and proven model for practice change and innovation, complete with analysis of innovation, target group and setting; selection and application of strategies; and evaluation of process, outcomes and costs. This new third edition also includes: Newly written chapters on clinical performance feedback, patient engagement, patient safety, evaluation designs, and methods for process evaluation Increased emphasis on the role of contextual influences in implementation and improvement New research examples from across the world and updated scientific literature throughout Designed to help promote safer and more efficient, patient-centered care and better outcomes, Improving Patient Care is an essential resource for healthcare providers, quality assessors, and students of health services research, health management, and health policy.
Quality Improvement in Healthcare Organizations
Healthcare organization quality improvement (e.g., improvement in the quality of organizational functioning, improvement in the quality of health care delivery) requires an understanding of healthcare organization and delivery processes as well as ways to measure those processes. It requires understanding of statistical analyses which use those measures to decide if there has been quality improvement in those processes. It may seem cut-and-dry, but the history of the healthcare quality movement is full of drama. For example, Ignaz Semmelweis proposed in 1847 that doctors should wash their hands with chlorinated lime solution to prevent the spread of disease and improve both health care and healthcare organization quality. His idea was rejected - continuously and soundly - and it is thought that this rejection led to his nervous breakdown and death in 1865. About the same time (1854), John Snow (this is NOT the John Snow from the Game of Thrones) tried to improve the health quality of people drinking water from the London Broad Street Pump. His measurements and analysis led him to believe that water from the Broad Street Pump was the source of cholera in the area. People would not listen so he removed the handle of the Broad Street Pump so it could not be used. Being unable to convince the public and the government of the validity of his quality improvement analysis, he stopped the cholera outbreak with a wrench.Ernest Codman, MD pioneered the use of quality standards for hospitals and doctors. Dr. Codman was a founding member of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in 1912 and was instrumental in the formation of its Hospital Standardization program in 1917. However, not everyone was happy with these efforts. In fact, his insistence that the quality (competence) and outcomes of his surgical colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) be evaluated got him fired from MGH in 1914. Florence Nightingale was a nurse in the Crimean War (1853 - 1856). While there she collected data on the deaths of soldiers for the purpose of analyzing the data to improve the quality of military hospitals to reduce soldier mortality. She organized that data into polar area diagrams (which she invented) to demonstrate that disease, especially disease from unsanitary conditions, was the primary cause of soldier deaths. Polar area diagrams are sometimes called coxcombs. As a result of this and other statistical work, Florence Nightingale was made a member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and an honorary member of the American Statistical Association.Perhaps you have thought about healthcare quality and ways it could be improved just as Ignaz Semmelweis, John Snow, Ernest Codman, and Florence Nightingale did. You may have asked yourself if there is a way for you to determine the relative quality of your healthcare choices? Have you found yourself thinking that there should be a way for you to provide your view and input on the quality of healthcare organization? Or do you work in a healthcare organization and find yourself thinking that there must be better ways to continuously and systematically improve the quality of your healthcare organization? If you have, this book is for you.This book is an overview of quality and quality improvement programs, measures, and data in healthcare organizations. These topics are addressed from an evidence-based perspective. The evidence-based approach relies on data which are scientifically collected and analyzed using statistical techniques coupled with literature reviews. It is the foundational approach in modern health care quality improvement systems. This book is for those with a developing interest in the organizational operations, administration, and quality improvement in healthcare organizations and for those who have some expertise, but who wish an overview or refresher of these topics.
Queering Public Health and Public Policy in the Deep South
In this volume, authors explore the interconnected issues of public health and public policy as they relate to queer issues in the Deep South. The book begins with a sustained examination of public health, health disparities, and mental health for LGBTQ people in the South. Next, the issues of public policy and public advocacy, including law enforcement, community advocacy and activism, and public life in the Deep South are taken up.Through the chapters in this text, the peculiarities of public health and public policy for LGBTQ people in the Deep South are explored. However, this volume also points to trends, themes, and dynamics at work in the Deep South that are also implicated in the queer experience in other parts of the U.S. The authors of this text push readers to think deeply about these issues. They clearly highlight the systemic nature of oppression of queer people in the South through institutions of medicine, mental health discourses, the criminal justice system, and public life including Pride and Mardi Gras. Taken together, the authors in this volume call for reform, liberation, and conscientization and queerly envision the future of health and policy in the Deep South.
Mount Sinai Expert Guides
Part of the Mount Sinai Expert Guide series, this outstanding book provides rapid-access, clinical information on all aspects of Critical Care with a focus on clinical diagnosis and effective patient management. With strong focus on the very best in multidisciplinary patient care, it is the ideal point of care consultation tool for the busy physician.
Assisted Living Administration and Management
Note to Readers: Publisher does not guarantee quality or access to any included digital components if book is purchased through a third-party seller.Assisted Living Administration and Management: Effective Practices and Model Programs in Elder Care 2nd Edition provides students and healthcare professionals with the most up to date and essential knowledge on assisted living and residential care. This comprehensive text empowers current and future assisted living administrators to employ effective practices, understand model programs, and learn the necessary tools and tips to maximize the overall health, safety, and comfort of residents in their care. Organized by domains of practice, it also covers content information required to prepare for state-based Residential Care and Assisted Living (RC/AL) administrator certification or licensure exams.The textbook is structured in five parts which instruct on how to build and manage effective assisted living and residential care communities, beginning with Organizational Management and progressing through Human Resources, Business and Financial Management, Environmental Management, and Resident Care Management. The second edition includes six new chapters on evolving topics, such as interprofessional practice, home and community-based services (HCBS) as alternatives to assisted living, information and communication technology (ICT), LGBT issues, memory care units, and palliative and hospice care. Chapters feature learning objectives, case studies, effective practices, and more enabling students and healthcare professionals to evaluate, analyze, and synthetize information on how to best operate, manage, and lead assisted living communities. Useful for any long-term care and health management professional or student in the fields of gerontology, health administration, and long-term care administration, this comprehensive book covers the most crucial aspects of assisted living and residential care management--the most abundant and fastest growing senior living line of service in the United States.Key Features: Describes real-life situations and challenges associated with Assisted Living Administration with pragmatic solutions which highlight the most effective practices and model programs in elder careContains new chapters on interprofessional practice, home and community-based services (HCBS) as an alternative to assisted living, information and communication technology (ICT), LGBT issues, memory care units, palliative and hospice careHighlights useful details on business and financial management, including guidelines for marketing facilities and services, important legal issues and terms, and evolving public policy issues Incorporates chapters on environmental management, with information on accessibility, fire safety, disaster preparedness, universal design and aging in place, and much moreEmphasizes the importance of holistic, resident care management by examining the biological, psychological, and social aspects of agingPrepares students to qualify and sit for the state certification or licensure examination as Assisted Living AdministratorsIncludes access to the fully downloadable eBook and instructor resources including a test bank
Patient Speak
Patient Speak is a reference guide of communication techniques and approaches recommended for healthcare and medical professionals to use when interacting with their patient and family members. Trust is built through effective conversations with compassion between physicians, nurses and specialists and their patient. Only then do patients and family members feel the genuine concern of their medical team for their overall emotional, psychological, and physical health. The care and connection you have with your patients and their families, providing respect, dignity, and concern for their mental well-being, in addition to their physical needs, can be life changing. Patient Speak helps reinforce effective communication practices that will leave patients with more positive impressions about their time interacting with medical professionals.
Revenue Cycle Management
How does the revenue cycle of a medical practice actually work? It is easy to get lost in all the phases of revenue management, so how does a practice keep it all straight? Proven solutions to optimize revenue cycle are the key, and this primer is a business-critical resource to deliver just that. Whether you're new to managing the revenue cycle or a seasoned professional, the concepts covered in these pages are key to your success
Who’s In Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health C
With a new preface assessing leadership responses to the coronavirus pandemic, this text explores leadership problems that can develop during such public health crises as the 2001 anthrax attacks, 2003 SARS epidemic, and Mad Cow Disease epidemic of the 1980s-1990s. A threat to public health, such as a rampaging virus, is no time for a muddled chain of command and contradictory decision-making. Who's In Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises, re-issued with a new preface assessing leadership during the COVID-19 outbreak, explores the crucial relationships among political leaders, public health officials, and journalists to see why leadership confusion develops. As the problematic response to COVID-19 has once again shown, the reluctance of politicians to risk alarm can run counter to the public health need to prepare for worse cases. Many leaders will seek high visibility during a public health crisis, but politicians are not medical experts, and the more they speak, the more they risk disseminating harmful information. How to achieve the right balance is the essence of this book. Beginning by looking at the overarching issues of leadership and public health administration, it then examines in depth five emergencies: the 2001 anthrax attacks, the 1993 cryptosporidium outbreaks, the 2003 SARS outbreak, the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease crisis, and the battle against Mad Cow Disease.
Wie Gesundheit im Rechtsstaat funktioniertEin themenorientierter Streifzug durch die deuts
Jahr f羹r Jahr gewinnen die Sozialgesetzb羹cher an Umfang. Neue Paragrafen werden eingef羹gt, Abs瓣tze erg瓣nzt und verschoben, manche wieder gel繹scht. Und was steht drin? "Wie Gesundheit im Rechtsstaat funktioniert" bietet einen themenorientierten Einstieg in die Welt der Rechte und Pflichten rund um die Gesundheit - von der Pr瓣vention 羹ber die Selbstverwaltung und Selbsthilfe bis zu klinischen Studien und neuen Konzepten f羹r die Versorgung. Zudem bezieht es Rehabilitation und Pflege ein. Das Buch richtet sich an alle, die einen Einblick in die Funktionsweise des deutschen Gesundheitssystems gewinnen wollen, ohne zu polemisieren oder Partei zu ergreifen; denn letztlich kommt es in einem so vielschichtigen System wie dem hiesigen Gesundheitssystem auf das Zusammenspiel aller Beteiligten an, um ein gutes Ergebnis f羹r die Gesundheit eines jeden Einzelnen als auch der Bev繹lkerung insgesamt zu erzielen.
(op)Nieuw Geleerd, Oud Gedaan
Veel familieleden en zorgverleners weten niet dat mensen met dementie nog goed in staat zijn om nieuwe dingen te leren. En dat terwijl dit lerend vermogen een enorme invloed heeft op de kwaliteit van leven van de persoon in kwestie en zijn omgeving. Dit lerend vermogen is zowel bij mensen met beginnende als mensen met gevorderde dementie nog aanwezig. In dit boek leggen wij uit wat er in de hersenen gebeurt bij dementie en hoe het kan dat mensen met dementie nog kunnen leren. Het hoopgevende (Op)nieuw geleerd, oud gedaan staat vol tips om dit leren als familielid of zorgverlener te stimuleren. De grote hoeveelheid ervaringsverhalen inspireert en vertaalt de theorie naar de praktijk.(Op)nieuw geleerd, oud gedaan is het tweede boek in de reeks 'Moderne Dementiezorg'.Het eerste boek, Had ik het maar geweten, is uitgegroeid tot het best verkochte informatieve boek over dementie in Nederland.
Agile Implementation
Agile Implementation describes the underlying theories and frameworks that explain health delivery systems and lays out the 8 steps of the Agile Implementation Model founded by Malaz Boustani, MD, MPH and Jose Azar, MD.In today's complex healthcare environment, implementing evidence-based care into real-world practices is difficult and time consuming. Even methods that are known to be effective allow for limited flexibility and therefore fail as often as they succeed. Through much study and experimentation, Malaz Boustani, MD, MPH, Jose Azar, MD, and Craig A. Solid, PhD have come to understand how individuals' interactions within the complex social systems of hospitals, clinics, and other care delivery organizations shape the decisions and behaviors of those involved. Upon this foundation and through leveraging theories of behavioral economics, we have developed the Agile Implementation Model, a process for selecting, adapting, implementing, evaluating, sustaining, and scaling evidence-based healthcare interventions.This model acknowledges the uniqueness of each individual facility and considers individuals within the system to be semiautonomous but interconnected. In tandem with illustrative examples, Agile Implementation describes the underlying theories and frameworks that explain health delivery systems and lays out the 8 steps of the Agile Implementation Model. Upon completing Agile Implementation, readers have a better understanding of why certain quality initiatives succeed while others fail and have tangible, actionable tools for implementing effective and sustainable change in the healthcare setting.
Aspectos Psicologicos en Tiempos de Pandemia
Despu矇s de la gran acogida del art穩culo titulado "聶Cu獺l es el papel del psic籀logo ante el nuevo virus?" que publiqu矇 en la C獺tedra Abierta de Psicolog穩a y Neurociencias el pasado 12 de febrero del 2020, y en vistas al inter矇s suscitado entre los compa簽eros psic籀logos y otras personas interesadas por la psicolog穩a, he decidido realizar este libro donde se aborda el tema de la perspectiva psicol籀gica en tiempos de pandemia.A pesar de que la informaci籀n sobre crisis sanitarias es muy reciente, y en algunos casos "cambiante", voy a presentar el trabajo basado en los datos actuales y sobre todo en publicaciones de car獺cter cient穩fico, donde adem獺s se incluir獺n declaraciones de distintos expertos recogidos por los medios de comunicaci籀n debidamente citados.Un libro accesible para todos los que quieran profundizar en los aspectos psicol籀gicos de un fen籀meno de masas en tiempos de crisis sanitaria.
Had Ik Het Maar Geweten
Iemand met dementie heeft maar beperkt ziekte-inzicht. Daarom is het van belang dat familie, vrienden en verzorgenden dit inzicht wel krijgen en ernaar handelen. Dit boek geeft hiervoor veel praktische tips gericht op communicatie, het omgaan met geheugenproblemen, mentorschap bij medische en financi禱le kwesties, activiteiten en het toepassen van nieuwe technieken en hulpmiddelen.Had ik het maar geweten is gebaseerd op de nieuwste wetenschappelijke inzichten en technische mogelijkheden. Bijzonder zijn de persoonlijke ervaringen van bekende Nederlanders, zoals Adelheid Roosen en Gerdi Verbeet. Had ik het maar geweten is de afgelopen jaren uitgegroeid tot het best verkochte informatieve boek over dementie. De praktische toepasbaarheid van de 100 tips, de positieve toon van het boek en de herkenbaarheid van genoemde voorbeelden zorgen hiervoor.
Code Blue
A powerful and path-breaking expose of America's Medical Industrial Complex-the network of mutually beneficial relationships between big business, academic medicine, patient advocacy organizations, hospitals, and government-and a compelling way forward for transforming America's healthcare system
How to Be a God-Pleasing Patient
In today's society, healing and doctors' visits are centered around a "self" and "me" attitude. As Christians, in spite of an illness or condition, we should approach medical care with a Christian attitude. Dr. Jim Halla shows readers how to be a God-pleasing patient and how to have a mindset that centers on God.
Physicians Rise Up
The healthcare industry is rapidly transforming, and effective healthcare management is critical. Yet, most physicians who are propelled into leadership lack the proper guidance and structure to be effective. Unable to excel in their roles, many often experience burnout and some even quit medicine for good, leaving an even bigger fracture in our delicate healthcare system. Is there a solution? Absolutely!In Physicians Rise Up: The Guide to Evolving as a Healthcare Leader, Dr. Herbert shares how training and recruiting physician leaders is the answer to addressing the difficulties plaguing the healthcare industry. By doling out tips and insights she gained while making her own successful comeback from burnout after 20 years of practice, Dr. Herbert proves that physician leaders can indeed step up and change the direction of the healthcare system one organization at a time.This invaluable guide is a must-read for every doctor who is ready to confidently transition into a thriving leadership role in healthcare.
Prescription Technology
The secret to opening physician-patient communication channels, reducing physician burnout, and achieving real results for patient health outcomes lies in the embrace of technology. In Prescription Technology, author Dr. Pranathi Kondapaneni shows healthcare stakeholders how current and future technology tools can be leveraged to reduce stress for the doctor and increase the patient's adoption of modified lifestyle behaviours.What you'll discover: Why current deployment of technology is causing more problems for the physician than it solves, and how to change thatHow remote-monitoring and voice-first technologies will soon play an important role in healthcareWhy artificial intelligence is the huge game-changer for patient-physician communicationHow adopting gamification concepts can strengthen the human connection between doctor and patient. Imagine never again having to suffer through another electronic medical record meltdown or worry about where to find time to update patient charts. In Prescription Technology, explore how technology can solve the dysfunction caused by a system that perversely values economic incentives over patients' health. Dr. Kondapaneni has written this book for physicians and medical leaders, but technology professionals may also find it useful in learning how physicians regard current cumbersome technology tools, and how the growing impact of technology can benefit patient care.
Departure from the Darkness and the Cold
In the midst of the cold and dark in the current practice of medicine there is a glimmer of hope called the soul of medicine - comprehensive, compassionate, patient-clinician interactions focused solely on the needs of the patient - that can warm and enlighten both patients and clinicians. This book consists of essays and poems describing patient-clinician interactions exhibiting the soul of medicine. Though coming from different viewpoints, both the general public and medical personnel can be enlightened from what they read. The general public has the opportunity to witness the lifting of the veil that shades the lives of clinicians and their loved ones - and from that observation, to occasionally understand why patients are treated as they are. For medical practitioners, what is read offers the possibility of hope - knowing there are at least some ongoing manifestations of the soul of medicine, and how to be like them. Every story and poem written in this book is true. Readers of any background can grasp the astounding nature of events that occur in the practice of medicine: the evolution of a doctor from being in the lowest 10 percent of his first year medical school class to being bestowed an Emeritus Professor designation upon his retirement; a cardiologist carrying for the rest of his young life the haunting image of a patient dead on the floor after a treadmill; a physician routinely working into the night having a son asking of the child's mother, "Did daddy die?"; a young pregnant woman joyously and tearfully offering a hand to her husband after their physician told them the congenital cardiac abnormality she had would not threaten the delivery of their first child; and, pre-medical and medical students, and all types of people in medical training, learning how, and how not, to treat patients - and experience the beauty of caring for them. What this book offers as it is read is an opportunity for readers of all kinds to meet both the horror and the wonder of medical practice, and observe clinicians doing their best to serve their patients - in the presence of the soul of medicine, to the warmth and light of all.
The Podiatry Practice Business SolutionThePodiatry Practice Business SolutionEverything Yo
Podiatrists have long had difficulty finding a resource that addresses their specific needs to manage their practice as a business. That's right--you're not only a medical provider; you're a business owner, the CEO of your own organization. If you've been frustrated about the amount of money you take home versus the number of hours you work, this book is for you. The Podiatry Practice Business Solution will teach you how to manage every aspect of your business to make it more efficient, from hiring your "A" team, to focusing on your practice goals, to evaluating the numbers--all for the purpose of being much more profitable. You'll learn everything you need to know to be a successful businessperson who practices podiatry.The goal is to love your life. And if you don't love your podiatry practice--if it's actually sucking the life out of you instead of energizing you--then you can't love the rest of your life. Learn from Dr. Peter Wishnie how you can run a profitable podiatry practice and get your nights and weekends back!
Death Is But a Dream
The first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears. Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as "more real than real," these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships, meaningful events and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life's meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance. Drawing on interviews with over 1,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process. He shares how his patients' stories point to death as not solely about the end of life, but as the final chapter of humanity's transcendence. Kerr's book also illuminates the benefits of these phenomena for the bereaved, who find solace in seeing their loved ones pass with a sense of calm closure. Beautifully written, with astonishing real-life characters and stories, this book is at its heart a celebration of our power to reclaim the dying process as a deeply meaningful one. Death Is But a Dream is an important contribution to our understanding of medicine's and humanity's greatest mystery.
Maximize Your Medicare 2020-2021
"A must-read for both current and future retirees." --Robert Powell, Retirement Daily Includes the Most Up-to-Date Information for 2020-2021 Confused by Medicare? Get answers from Maximize Your Medicare, an informative guide by nationally recognized expert Jae W. Oh. Maximize Your Medicare helps readers understand how and what to choose when deciding on Medicare options. This book shows readers how to: Enroll in Medicare and avoid never-ending penaltiesCompare Medigap vs. Medicare AdvantageDiscern the differences among Parts A, B, and DIncrease benefits every yearAvoid costly errorsDeal with special circumstancesGet the most from the plan Written in a clear and concise style, Maximize Your Medicare is a vital resource for every American aged sixty-five or older, as well as for their families and care coordinators.
How to Get the Right Diagnosis16 Tips for Navigating the Medical System
Get the Correct Medical Diagnosis You Need and Deserve"If you, or one of your loved ones, has a complex, chronic illness, you need to read this book. You are not alone if you fear your medical problems are misunderstood." ―Dr. Jeanne Shiffman, MD, Well Being―Being Well, Integrative and Family Medicine#1 Bestseller in Men's HealthMany know from experience that getting an accurate medical diagnosis can be difficult. Take it from Randy Pherson, who struggled with a medical condition for five years before getting a proper diagnosis―and once he did, had to undergo a major surgery to save his life.Learn to leverage the system. As traumatic as Pherson's situation was, it is not an isolated experience. He decided to help others facing similar situations. Applying his analytical skills honed as a CIA senior intelligence officer, Pherson offers precise, analytical techniques for using the medical system to your advantage.Lessons that could save your life. Because of the sheer number of patients doctors and medical staff see each day, it can be difficult to get the medical attention you deserve. Pherson cites a network of individuals who have tried, both successfully and unsuccessfully, to navigate the medical system. By using their stories as examples, Pherson gives value to their experiences and provides lessons learned to potentially save lives.Inside find: 16 tips for navigating the medical systemHow to better describe your pain and the specific questions to ask your doctorTechniques to spur a correct diagnosis and obstacles to overcome when seeking treatmentTips for building an effective partnership with your doctorIf self-help and medicine books such as Lab Values, Diagnosis, How to Be a Patient, How Doctors Think, Attending, or The Patient Will See You Now have been valuable, then Randy Pherson's How to Get the Right Diagnosis is the next book for you.
The White Coat EntrepreneurTheWhite Coat EntrepreneurMaster Business So You Can Work Less,
FROM SURGEON TO CEO Earning a degree in medicine doesn't prepare you to take on the world of entrepreneurship. Yet every year, thousands of doctors across the nation set out to launch their very own practices with little to no knowledge of what it truly takes to run a successful business. In this book, Dr. Edwin Williams reveals secrets that can help physicians at any level of their career attain success in launching and operating their own practice with complete confidence. Using examples and anecdotes from his own life, Dr. Williams takes readers through an intricate journey, outlining essential components that will help physicians kick-start and sustain a sturdy practice. Leveraging his advice, readers can sidestep hurdles, avoid errors, and dodge costly mistakes, all while launching a business that breeds success for the present ... and the future. Building on his own life experience, Dr. Edwin Williams has crafted an excellent and important book that should be required reading for every physician aspiring to start or already running a private practice. -William H. Truswell, MD, FACS; Past President of AAFPRS
Atypical Premed
The decision to apply to medical school is not one that can be made easily overnight. It takes years of preparation to construct a decent application, and even then, acceptance is not guaranteed. The process is especially grueling for non-traditional students who do not fit the cookie-cutter mold of the thousands of students applying to medical school each year. As a three-time medical school applicant, single mother, and former non-traditional student, Dr. Danielle Ward knows all too well the difficulties and obstacles that come along with the decision to start on the path to becoming a physician.Atypical Premed was created to prove that despite not fitting the mold, you absolutely can accomplish your dream of becoming a physician! Atypical Premed is filled with advice, tips, and Dr. Ward's own personal experiences to both guide and encourage students from all backgrounds who are interested in pursuing a medical career. Whether you are overcoming low GPA and/or MCAT scores, a single parent, changing careers, involved in the military, an older (or even younger) student, or involved in anything else that does not fit the typical view of an entering medical student--if you plan on applying to medical school, this book will have something for you.
Seeing Patients
"A powerful and extraordinarily important book."--James P. Comer, MD "A marvelous personal journey that illuminates what it means to care for people of all races, religions, and cultures. The story of this man becomes the aspiration of all those who seek to minister not only to the body but also to the soul."--Jerome Groopman, MD, author of How Doctors Think Growing up in Jim Crow-era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in the world of medicine. While race relations have changed dramatically since then, old ways of thinking die hard. In this blend of memoir and manifesto, Dr. White draws on his experience as a resident at Stanford Medical School, a combat surgeon in Vietnam, and head orthopedic surgeon at one of Harvard's top teaching hospitals to make sense of the unconscious bias that riddles medical care, and to explore how we can do better in a diverse twenty-first-century America. "Gus White is many things--trailblazing physician, gifted surgeon, and freedom fighter. Seeing Patients demonstrates to the world what many of us already knew--that he is also a compelling storyteller. This powerful memoir weaves personal experience and scientific research to reveal how the enduring legacy of social inequality shapes America's medical field. For medical practitioners and patients alike, Dr. White offers both diagnosis and prescription."--Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Harvard University "A tour de force--a compelling story about race, health, and conquering inequality in medical care...Dr. White has a uniquely perceptive lens with which to see and understand unconscious bias in health care...His journey is so absorbing that you will not be able to put this book down."--Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., author of All Deliberate Speed
Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb
Drawing on the real-life stories of twenty exemplary caregivers, Dr. Charles Garfield explains the widely used Shanti caregivers model he originated-and shows how to set limits, avoid burnout, accept gratitude, and grapple with issues of life and death when caring for people with HIV/AIDS.
The Equality Toolkit
Every individual is entitled to quality health care, but medical professionals are not always equipped with the training and knowledge to provide the necessary care to patients--especially when it comes to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities and individuals with differences of sex development (DSD). For this reason, the University of Louisville School of Medicine established eQuality (www.louisville.edu/medicine/equality/), an inclusive LGBTQ/DSD-affect
Prognosis Hope
A powerful formula that ignites a revolution to restore humanity to healthcare.
Navigating to Value-Based Outcomes
Payment reform efforts will be a mainstay of healthcare delivery so long as our societal spending on care is high while our outcomes are inconsistent or middling. To thrive - financially, individually, and collectively as care delivery units - we must be able to demonstrate to ourselves and for others, the value of the outcomes we produce. While it is true that you can't improve what you don't measure, it is also true that you can't act on measurements you don't understand. Every healthcare system, form a single provider office up to a national chain, has to bridge administrative and clinical workflows to create better, more meaningful, outcomes for each patient. Learn to rebuild an organization with tools you already have in your practice now to listen to your patients and create a system to empower patients and staff alike.Create an environment where outcomes are: - measured in a meaningful way- evaluated based on both the patient and the practice's needs- acted upon to strengthen both the practice's community and bottom line.Dr. Walsh utilizes extensive clinical, business, and academic experience to demonstrate a proven methodology to identify and measure what matters most to patients. Learn to: - capture the data that matters to patients - create data governance and oversight structures - employ new cost-allocation techniques - evaluate the effectiveness of varied transformation techniques - implement shared decision-making - improve the patient experience with all levels of the practice Here is the roadmap to identifying actionable strategies and effective improvement activities to engage your patients and align your people so your organization can navigate toward value-based outcomes and thrive.
Don’t Do Something, Just Stand There
We are what we think all day long. At least that's what Ralph Waldo Emerson said. If that is true, then you should really stop and ask yourself, "What am I thinking about right now?" And if you take a moment to really do that, then the title of this book will make sense to you. So often, we simply react to what is going on around us, and while we do "think" when we react, we often do not "critically think," because if we did, we would respond and not react. When I was in the Navy, I was taught to "work the problem," which meant to stop, look around, use whatever tools were available and figure out a solution. In fact, that's pretty much what I do today; I am a problem solver. I find solutions to problems that are oftentimes complex and illusive, and I often do it by just standing there -- taking a breath, looking at the information that is available to me and then making the best decision possible. Does it always work out the way I would like? Nope. But the outcome is positive a whole lot more often than it is negative, and that's because I have reduced the uncertainty around the problem.The purpose of this book is to show you how to reduce the uncertainty around the decisions you make, thereby increasing the likelihood of a positive outcome. The way to do this is to understand the process of critical thinking and evidence-based practice. Being an evidence-based thinker means being able to wade through the masses of information and data and bring to the table something that we can use to make better decisions. And evidence-based decisions will more often than not result in positive management outcomes. So, welcome to my world. And remember, don't do something, just stand there.
Medicine at the Crossroads
Stories and Conversations to Forge a Vision for Health CareMedicine at the Crossroads is a collection of essays based a column originally published in the Waco-Tribune Herald by renowned cardiologist Dr. Michael Attas. It touches on three perspectives - the physician, the patient, and the healthcare system - and addresses some of the most pressing questions in medicine today. Individually, each story of illness, medicine, and healing provides a tiny, fragmented glimpse into the heart of a problem. Collectively, it is Dr. Attas's hope that these stories forge together to reveal a larger narrative truth.The collection originated among scores of bright, inquisitive students in the classrooms of Baylor University, where Dr. Attas founded the Medical Humanities Program. The program was the first of its kind in the United States, and it redefined how students prepare for a career in health care. Dr. Attas and his students explored medicine and the human condition through stories of brokenness and redemption, pain and loss, and joy and despair.But the stories that have emerged from Dr. Attas's 40-year career are not just for students. The conversations are for all of us. Whether you are a physician, patient, or other participant in the healthcare system, may you be bold enough, humble enough, and vulnerable enough to listen to these stories--and to the stories of those around you--with wonder and awe.While this collection may offer some solutions with "fear and trembling," it does not dare claim to have all the answers. The purpose is simply to start conversations. So, let us take a collective breath and examine our personal feelings and expectations of medicine. May we each glimpse the possibilities and discover our own fresh, creative solutions.Ultimately, the purpose of Medicine at the Crossroads is to help us find our way to compassionate, humane health care for all. Together, may we find healing--for ourselves, our loved ones, and our system.What leaders are saying"For years, Dr. Attas has been prescient about changes in medicine and the physician's role. In a time of radical change in health care, when the very practice of medicine is in question, he shows us that the essential relationship is between the patient and the physician." - United States Ambassador Lyndon L. Olson, Jr. "Candid, transparent, and provocative, this is a "stained glass" collection of stories for talking about health care through the lens of the medical humanities, helping us understand how the science and art of medicine intersect. A must-read for anyone entering or serving in health care." - Joel T. Allison, FACHE, Retired CEO, Baylor Scott and White Health; Senior Advisor, Robbins Institute for Health Policy and Leadership"Dr. Attas reclaims ancient wisdom and offers a new vision. This is not only a handbook about recognizing patients' needs in body and soul, but about how those holding life and death in their hands at work can recognize and meet their own needs of body and soul. I hope every clinician reads it." - Kerry Egan, MDiv, Author of On Living"At the intersection of faith and medicine, Dr. Attas grapples with the dilemmas and dissonances of modern medicine in stories that are both personal and prophetic. This important conversation about the future of health care reminds future healthcare professionals of their sacred duty to care for patients and urges us all to build a healthcare system based on compassion, wisdom, and justice." - Lauren Barron, MD, Director, Medical Humanities Program, Baylor University
