When it comes to managed care, do American's really have the choices they deserve? In today's healthcare environment, consumers' only choices are selecting a healthcare plan, designating a primary care doctor out of that plan, or opting not to have a plan and pay the high cost of healthcare out of their pockets. And yet there is another little-known choice that ought to be available to the consumer-qualified non-physician practitioners. Nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, clinical pharmacists, and specialized therapists are trained experts in their specific areas of practice, frequently costing much less than the physician and always providing care of equal or better quality. This better deal will not only benefit the consumer, but the health systems and health plans that makes these certified non-physicians available to their patients. 
Not What the Doctor Ordered, revised once again opens the eyes of consumers, providers, and third party insurers to the vision of low cost, high quality alternative choices when it comes to delivering care. 
Written by medical economist and healthcare futurist, Dr. Jeff Bauer, Not What the Doctor Ordered, revised explains how opening up the healthcare market and creating competition can achieve the goals of health reform and managed care-without raising costs or imposing more restrictions. 
New to Not What the Doctor Ordered, revised: * Clinton health reform-what exactly went wrong and why * Managed care- how it will evolve * Alternative medicine-steps in the right direction * Technology-the growth of telemedicine and integrated information systems * What's ahead for healthcare in 2000 and beyond

Not What the Doctor Ordered: How to End the Medical Monopoly in Pursuit of Managed Care (The Hfma Healthcare Financial Management Series)

Bauer, Jeffrey C.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

McGraw=Hill

Center for the New West, Denver, CO. Offers a comprehensive introduction to the related elements reshaping health care. For health professionals. Includes interviews and illustrated sidebars. Topics include virtual house calls, on-line medical records, rural information network, on-line practice management, and more.

Telemedicine and the Reinvention of Healthcare (Healthcare Informatics Executive Management Series)

Medical Books

Ringel, Marc A.

Administration & Medicine Economics

This 25th Anniversary edition completely updates the powerful insights and policy recommendations of Not What the Doctor Ordered, first published in 1993 by renowned healthcare futurist and medical economist the author. It presents specific solutions to serious problems of cost, quality, access, and outcomes by allowing all Americans to purchase services directly from caregivers who provide an expanding array of medical services at least as well as physicians―at lower cost. Focusing on new realities of the 21st century, the authorshows not only why giving consumers the right to choose advanced practitioners is the top priority for improving our overpriced, underperforming medical care delivery system, but also how to make the necessary changes. As he clearly and concisely explains from medical and economic perspectives, the key is eliminating physicians’ monopoly powers over advanced practice nurses, clinical pharmacists, physical therapists, clinical psychologists, and other advanced practice (AP) health professionals who now rival physicians in scientific knowledge and caregiving skills within well-defined scopes of practice regulated by state governments.

Not What the Doctor Ordered: Liberating Caregivers and Empowering Consumers for Successful Health Reform

Business & Money

Industries

Productivity Press

Statistical Analysis for Decision Makers in Healthcare, Second Edition: Understanding and Evaluating Critical Information in Changing Times

Americans are bombarded with statistical data each and every day, and healthcare professionals are no exception. All segments of healthcare rely on data provided by insurance companies, consultants, research firms, and the federal government to help them make a host of decisions regarding the delivery of medical services. But while these health professionals rely on data, do they really make the best use of the information? Not if they fail to understand whether the assumptions behind the formulas generating the numbers make sense. Not if they don�t understand that the world of healthcare is flooded with inaccurate, misleading, and even dangerous statistics. Statistical Analysis for Decision Makers in Healthcare: Understanding and Evaluating Critical Information in a Competitive Market, Second Edition explains the fundamental concepts of statistics, as well as their common uses and misuses. Without jargon or mathematical formulas, nationally renowned healthcare expert and author, Jeff Bauer, presents a clear verbal and visual explanation of what statistics really do. He provides a practical discussion of scientific methods and data to show why statistics should never be allowed to compensate for bad science or bad data. Relying on real-world examples, Dr. Bauer stresses a conceptual understanding that empowers readers to apply a scientifically rigorous approach to the evaluation of data. With the tools he supplies, you will learn how to dismantle statistical evidence that goes against common sense. Easy to understand, practical, and even entertaining, this is the book you wish you had when you took statistics in college � and the one you are now glad to have to defend yourself against the abundance of bad studies and misinformation that might otherwise corrupt your decisions.

Statistical Analysis for Decision Makers in Healthcare: Understanding and Evaluating Critical Information in Changing Times

Management & Leadership

Americans are bombarded with statistical data each and every day, and healthcare professionals are no exception. All segments of healthcare rely on data provided by insurance companies, consultants, research firms, and the federal government to help them make a host of decisions regarding the delivery of medical services. But while these health professionals rely on data, do they really make the best use of the information? Not if they fail to understand whether the assumptions behind the formulas generating the numbers make sense. Not if they don’t understand that the world of healthcare is flooded with inaccurate, misleading, and even dangerous statistics. Statistical Analysis for Decision Makers in Healthcare: Understanding and Evaluating Critical Information in a Competitive Market, Second Edition explains the fundamental concepts of statistics, as well as their common uses and misuses. Without jargon or mathematical formulas, nationally renowned healthcare expert and author, Jeff Bauer, presents a clear verbal and visual explanation of what statistics really do. He provides a practical discussion of scientific methods and data to show why statistics should never be allowed to compensate for bad science or bad data. Relying on real-world examples, Dr. Bauer stresses a conceptual understanding that empowers readers to apply a scientifically rigorous approach to the evaluation of data. With the tools he supplies, you will learn how to dismantle statistical evidence that goes against common sense. Easy to understand, practical, and even entertaining, this is the book you wish you had when you took statistics in college ― and the one you are now glad to have to defend yourself against the abundance of bad studies and misinformation that might otherwise corrupt your decisions.

Clearly, concisely, and with many examples from public and private enterprise, Upgrading Leadership’s Crystal Ball shows why predictions are usually wrong and presents a better way to look at the future―forecasting. This book is essential-reading for anyone who needs to make the best possible strategic decisions for moving an organization forward in today’s rapidly changing environment. Dr. Bauer supplies an insightful comparison of the two mainstream approaches for looking ahead. Although predicting and forecasting are usually used as synonyms for a single process, they are conceptually and methodologically quite different. He explains why everyday failure to operationalize these differences robs us of power to envision and pursue good futures, especially when we are headed in the wrong direction. Readers will learn the real-world value of distinguishing between predicting (extrapolating historical trends) and forecasting (estimating the probabilities of possibilities). Following a description of predictive modeling and a discussion of five reasons why it fails so often in current applications, Dr. Bauer explains the superiority of forecasting and how to do it. To complete readers’ understanding of the many compelling reasons for making the shift from predicting to forecasting, Upgrading Leadership’s Crystal Ball presents a practical approach to strategic planning in unpredictable times. It concludes with an analysis of the future of big data and its likely impact on the future. Dr. Bauer is uniquely qualified to write this important book; he is trained in both predicting (economics) and forecasting (meteorology). Author of more than 250 publications, he is internationally recognized not only for long-term success in foretelling the future of medical science and health care, but also for successful innovations to create a better delivery system. This book distills the lessons garnered over his 40 year career as economist and futurist into a guide that other leaders can use to avoid problems and create better options in any realm. The book includes a foreword by Dr. Stan Gryskiewicz, author of Positive Turbulence.

Upgrading Leadership's Crystal Ball

Economics

Routledge

The Paradox: Americans are not as healthy as people in dozens of comparable countries that spend 30 percent less on health care, and our medical marketplace overall is plagued by persistent problems of cost, quality, and access. Yet, the world’s best individual health systems are located in the U.S.―each a unique result of visionary leadership and private initiative, not government-driven health reform. The Imperatives: Due to powerful new forces explained in this book, medical spending has stopped growing. Purchasers, payers, and patients are no longer willing or able to keep paying more. To stay in business and improve population health, providers and their business partners must eliminate the shameful waste generated by inefficient and ineffective production processes. The Solution: Simply repairing or repealing the Affordable Care Act will not get us where we want to go. The fundamental roadblock is a wasteful system, not uninsured Americans. Reform needs to be immediately redirected to creating the best health care system that 17 percent of GDP can buy. Money saved by taking the new path to reform can then be used to improve population health through access for all. Paradox and Imperatives in Health Care is the roadmap for getting there. <ul>
<li>Supplies updated perspectives on health care’s problems and solutions</li> <li>Details the reasons why government-driven reform does not solve problems</li> <li>Provides a justification for regulatory relief tied to performance improvement</li> <li>Suggests specific new policies for a better approach to desired outcomes</li> <li>Presents content written expressly for busy executives and policy makers </li> </ul>

Paradox and Imperatives in Health Care: Redirecting Reform for Efficiency and Effectiveness, Revised Edition

This is a hardcover book in very good condition very easy to read. Just a nice book to add to your collection.

Not What the Doctor Ordered: Reinventing Medical Care in America

Probus Professional Pub

This-easy-to-read and understandable text explains the fundamental concepts, uses and misuses of statistics. It provides a practical discussion of scientific methods and data to show why statistics cannot compensate for bad science or bad data. Includes numerous charts and graphic illustrations.

Statistical Analysis for Decision Makers in Healthcare: Understanding and Evaluating Critical Information in a Competitive Market

Insurance

Most hospitals, health systems, and other provider organizations in the United States are facing real financial peril. Mounting receivables from high-deductible health plans, financially challenged consumers, continuing cuts in Medicare, and a precarious economic environment suggest that real health care revenue has peaked. With operating costs increasing and critical investments in infrastructure―both physical and virtual―not being made, health care providers must find new ways to survive. 
In their groundbreaking collaboration, Paradox and Imperatives in Health Care, award-winning authors Jeffrey C. Bauer and Mark Hagland explain why providers must draw upon internal resources to increase net revenue and provide the quality of care that payers and consumers are demanding. Through numerous case studies, the authors show how pioneering health care organizations are using performance improvement tools―including lean management, Six-Sigma, and the Toyota Production System―to produce excellent services as inexpensively as possible. This book challenges health care leaders to change their status quo mentality and to put their organizations on a positive path… while redirection is still possible. 
About the Authors 
Dr. Jeffrey C. Bauer is a nationally recognized health futurist and medical economist. He is a Chicago-based partner in the management consulting practice of ACS Healthcare Solutions (Dearborn, MI). In his numerous publications and presentations, he forecasts the future of health care and describes practical, creative approaches to improving the health care delivery system. 
Dr. Bauer has published more than 150 articles, books, Web pages, and videos on health care delivery. He speaks frequently to national audiences about key trends in health care, medical science, technology, reimbursement, information systems, public policy, and creative problem-solving. Dr. Bauer is often quoted in the national press and writes regularly for periodicals that cover the business of health care. For details, visit www.jeffbauerphd.com. 
Mark Hagland is a nationally respected independent health care journalist. He has been recognized for the quality of his writing in a variety of areas and has won numerous awards in recognition of his achievements. He writes regularly for Healthcare Informatics, the Journal of AHIMA, Biotechnology Healthcare, Behavioral Healthcare, AuntMinnie.com, and other prominent publications in health care. He covers a wide range of topics and issues pertinent to the industry.

Paradox and Imperatives in Health Care: How Efficiency, Effectiveness, and E-Transformation Can Conquer Waste and Optimize Quality

Hagland, Mark

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