Management Principles for Health Professionals

Liebler, Joan Gratto

ISBN 10: 128408132X / ISBN 13: 9781284081329

Published by Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2016

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Synopsis:

Management Principles for Health Professionals is a practical guide for new or future practicing healthcare managers. The customary activities of the manager-planning, organizing, decision making, staffing, motivating, and budgeting-are succinctly defined, explained, and presented with detailed examples drawn from a variety of health care settings. Students will learn proven management concepts, techniques, models, and tools for managing individuals or teams with skill and ease. The Seventh Edition continues to present foundational principles of management in the context of contemporary health care. This thorough update offers many new examples including corporate compliance, standards of conduct and mandatory reporting, eHealth, revenue cycle considerations, cultural competency and diversity training, comparative effectiveness reviews. The Seventh Edition also offers expanded coverage of material relating to HIPAA, the electronic health record/personal health record, due diligence reviews, and healthcare reform legislation. Key Features: * Offers new and updated examples throughout reflecting a wide variety of settings, including acute care, observation units, urgent care, continuing care facilities, and more * Includes a full-scale plan, with 500-day implementation schedule to illustrate project management * Explores newly emerging job positions, such as compliance officer, privacy specialist, data quality and analysis specialist, and contractual management teams

About the Authors: Joan Gratto Liebler, MA, MPA, is Professor Emerita, Health Information Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.' She has more than 40 years of professional experience in teaching and research in healthcare settings.' In addition to teaching, her work and consulting experience include engagement with community health centers, behavioral care settings, schools, industrial clinics, prisons, and long-term care, acute care, and hospice settings.' She has been an active participant in area-wide healthcare planning, end-of-life coalitions, and area-wide emergency and disaster planning.Professor Liebler is also the author of Medical Records: Policies and Procedures and has authored numerous journal articles and contributed chapters relating to health information management.She holds the degrees of Master of Public Administration, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and Master of Arts (concentration in medical ethics), St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia, PA.

Charles R. McConnell started his professional career in industrial and management engineering, followed by 29 years in human resources management in the healthcare industry. During those years he served as a human resources manager for affiliated organizations of a multi-facility healthcare system based in Rochester, New York, and earlier as a senior consultant with the Management and Planning Services division of the Hospital Association of New York State. He currently is an independent human resources and editorial consultant who has published more than 20 books and numerous articles, and serves as editor of a quarterly professional journal. He holds a BS in engineering and an MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has served as adjunct faculty at several colleges.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Management Principles for Health ...
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good