Women's Health

Women's Health
Author: Mary Anne Graf
Publisher: Healthleaders Media
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: HEALTH & FITNESS
ISBN: 9781615691562

Women's health services--getting beyond the delivery room Women's health services are no longer limited to obstetrics. Smart organizations are expanding women's health to encompass everything from cardiovascular care to orthopedics to wellness, taking advantage of the new emphasis on gender-based medicine. Given the rapidly changing dynamic of this service line, providers have the unique opportunity to capitalize on women's health or risk losing market share to their competitors. Women's Health: Strategies for Superior Service Line Performance offers the business guidance you need to transition women's health to a comprehensive service line that increases market share, improves clinical quality, drives down costs, and helps drive business to all other parts of the organization. Receive high-level guidance and case studies to help you: * Develop a comprehensive women's health program beyond obstetrics * Build loyalty with women, the No. 1 healthcare decision-makers, as well as their friends and extended families * Create a road map for long-term success by using EHRs and telehealth to drive down costs, document results, and lead in quality * Establish strong physician-hospital alignment, with or without employment * Boost your overall bottom line with a thriving cross-departmental service line

Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies

Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9264805907

This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.

The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century

The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2003-02-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309133181

The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.

Women's Health: Strategies for Superior Service Line Performance

Women's Health: Strategies for Superior Service Line Performance
Author: Mary Anne Lappin Graf
Publisher: Healthleaders Media, a Division of Blr
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-12-13
Genre: Product management
ISBN: 9781601467768

Women's Health: Strategies for Superior Service Line Performance Mary Anne Lappin Graf Women's health services--getting beyond the delivery room Women's health services are no longer limited to obstetrics. Smart organizations are expanding women's health to encompass everything from cardiovascular care to orthopedics to wellness, taking advantage of the new emphasis on gender-based medicine. Given the rapidly changing dynamic of this service line, providers have the unique opportunity to capitalize on women's health or risk losing market share to their competitors. Women's Health: Strategies for Superior Service Line Performance offers the business guidance you need to transition women's health to a comprehensive service line that increases market share, improves clinical quality, drives down costs, and helps drive business to all other parts of the organization. Receive high-level guidance and case studies to help you: Develop a comprehensive women's health program beyond obstetrics Build loyalty with women, the No. 1 healthcare decision-makers, as well as their friends and extended families Create a road map for long-term success by using EHRs and telehealth to drive down costs, document results, and lead in quality Establish strong physician-hospital alignment, with or without employment Boost your overall bottom line with a thriving cross-departmental service line Take a look at the table of contents Introduction: The Air We Breathe The National Context The Organizational Context Chapter 1: Service Line: What and Why Why Do Service Lines Exist? Current State of Service Lines Are Service Lines Here to Stay? Chapter 2: Why a Women's Service Line? Unprecedented Growth The Return of the Babies Utilization The Family Healthcare Gatekeeper Potential for Philanthropy Chapter 3: What About a Men's Service Line? Historic Perspective Growing Interest? Chapter 4: Women's Healthcare Trends Shaping Strategy: Women's Health Trends The Age of the IDS, ACOs, and True Quality Service Line Planning and Direction Chapter 5: Laying the Foundation Visioning and Planning for Success The Business Plan Resource Allocation Budgeting for Kick-Off and Maintenance Dealing with Worship at the Three High Altars of Healthcare: Cardiology, Cancer and Orthopedics Chapter 6: Finance and Marketing Defining Service Line Value Service Line Finance: Beyond Department Analysis Downstream Revenue and Value What Women Want: Attracting the Female Consumer The Power of Market Research Leveraging Psychographics Chapter 7: Kicking Off Your Service Line Defining the Outcomes and Value Stay Focused Proactive Alignment Process Data, Listening, and Relationship: The Keys to Alignment Planning for Reality Physicians and The E Words (Engage and/or Employ) Chapter 8: Staying on Top Know Yourself Know Your Customers Know Your Market Respect the Change Process Who will benefit from this book? Healthcare leaders Service line directors CEOs CFOs COOs CIOs CMOs CNOs Business development executives Planning and business development heads Directors of public relations/marketing Healthcare marketing executives Healthcare consultants Physicians Board members Service line managers Department heads

Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health

Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2001-07-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309132975

It's obvious why only men develop prostate cancer and why only women get ovarian cancer. But it is not obvious why women are more likely to recover language ability after a stroke than men or why women are more apt to develop autoimmune diseases such as lupus. Sex differences in health throughout the lifespan have been documented. Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health begins to snap the pieces of the puzzle into place so that this knowledge can be used to improve health for both sexes. From behavior and cognition to metabolism and response to chemicals and infectious organisms, this book explores the health impact of sex (being male or female, according to reproductive organs and chromosomes) and gender (one's sense of self as male or female in society). Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health discusses basic biochemical differences in the cells of males and females and health variability between the sexes from conception throughout life. The book identifies key research needs and opportunities and addresses barriers to research. Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health will be important to health policy makers, basic, applied, and clinical researchers, educators, providers, and journalists-while being very accessible to interested lay readers.

The Future of Nursing 2020-2030

The Future of Nursing 2020-2030
Author: National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780309685061

The decade ahead will test the nation's nearly 4 million nurses in new and complex ways. Nurses live and work at the intersection of health, education, and communities. Nurses work in a wide array of settings and practice at a range of professional levels. They are often the first and most frequent line of contact with people of all backgrounds and experiences seeking care and they represent the largest of the health care professions. A nation cannot fully thrive until everyone - no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they make - can live their healthiest possible life, and helping people live their healthiest life is and has always been the essential role of nurses. Nurses have a critical role to play in achieving the goal of health equity, but they need robust education, supportive work environments, and autonomy. Accordingly, at the request of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, on behalf of the National Academy of Medicine, an ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a study aimed at envisioning and charting a path forward for the nursing profession to help reduce inequities in people's ability to achieve their full health potential. The ultimate goal is the achievement of health equity in the United States built on strengthened nursing capacity and expertise. By leveraging these attributes, nursing will help to create and contribute comprehensively to equitable public health and health care systems that are designed to work for everyone. The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity explores how nurses can work to reduce health disparities and promote equity, while keeping costs at bay, utilizing technology, and maintaining patient and family-focused care into 2030. This work builds on the foundation set out by The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2011) report.

Measuring the Quality of Health Care

Measuring the Quality of Health Care
Author: The National Roundtable on Health Care Quality
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1999-02-23
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309570689

The National Roundtable on Health Care Quality was established in 1995 by the Institute of Medicine. The Roundtable consists of experts formally appointed through procedures of the National Research Council (NRC) who represent both public and private-sector perspectives and appropriate areas of substantive expertise (not organizations). From the public sector, heads of appropriate Federal agencies serve. It offers a unique, nonadversarial environment to explore ongoing rapid changes in the medical marketplace and the implications of these changes for the quality of health and health care in this nation. The Roundtable has a liaison panel focused on quality of care in managed care organizations. The Roundtable convenes nationally prominent representatives of the private and public sector (regional, state and federal), academia, patients, and the health media to analyze unfolding issues concerning quality, to hold workshops and commission papers on significant topics, and when appropriate, to produce periodic statements for the nation on quality of care matters. By providing a structured opportunity for regular communication and interaction, the Roundtable fosters candid discussion among individuals who represent various sides of a given issue.

Advances in Patient Safety

Advances in Patient Safety
Author: Kerm Henriksen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

v. 1. Research findings -- v. 2. Concepts and methodology -- v. 3. Implementation issues -- v. 4. Programs, tools and products.

The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States

The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States
Author: Peter Buerhaus
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0763756849

The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States: Data, Trends and Implications provides a timely, comprehensive, and integrated body of data supported by rich discussion of the forces shaping the nursing workforce in the US. Using plain, jargon free language, the book identifies and describes the key changes in the current nursing workforce and provide insights about what is likely to develop in the future. The Future of the Nursing Workforce offers an in-depth discussion of specific policy options to help employers, educators, and policymakers design and implement actions aimed at strengthening the current and future RN workforce. The only book of its kind, this renowned author team presents extensive data, exhibits and tables on the nurse labor market, how the composition of the workforce is evolving, changes occurring in the work environment where nurses practice their profession, and on the publics opinion of the nursing profession.

Improving Health Management through Clinical Decision Support Systems

Improving Health Management through Clinical Decision Support Systems
Author: Moon, Jane D.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2015-09-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1466694335

In an effort to combat human error in the medical field, medical professionals continue to seek the best practices and technology applications for the diagnosis, treatment, and overall care of their patients. Improving Health Management through Clinical Decision Support Systems brings together a series of chapters focused on the technology, funding, and future plans for improved organization and decision-making through medical informatics. Featuring timely, research-based chapters on topics including, but not limited to, data management, information security, and the benefits of technology-based medicine, this publication is an essential reference source for clinicians, scientists, health economists, policymakers, academicians, researchers, advanced level students, and government officials interested in health information technology.