This executive report takes you step-by-step through the process of developing integrated delivery systems. You'll learn eleven fundamental building blocks for integration and how to apply these methods to redesign and improve your existing processes and systems.

The new Third Edition of Managed Health Care: What It Is and How It Works is a concise introduction to the foundations of the American managed health care system. Written in clear and accessible language, this handy guide offers an historical overview of managed care and then walks the reader through the organizational structures, concepts, and practices of the managed care industry. This thorough revision has been completely updated with all the newest data on this dynamic industry and features all new sections on: pay for performance, consumer directed health plans, new approaches to care management, as well as advances in information technology.

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.

Here in 25 authoritative articles drawn from the highly respected journal Health Care Management Review, you'll discover what you'll need to lead your organization into the generation of managed care. From short range issues like making existing product lines efficient to the policy logic of building comprehensive, integrated systems, this reference will help managers in a provider, insurer, buyer, or government organization create a successfully integrated organization.

In this provocative book, a renowned medical business reporter and a financial expert from Price Waterhouse offer a clear and objective understanding of the driving forces behind the turmoil caused by the rapid consolidation of health care organizations. Health care executives, policymakers, researchers, and consultants will gain the insider's knowledge they need to participate in a system where more key players will be investor-owned.