Healthcare Strategy: In Pursuit of Competitive Advantage [Paperback]

Roice D. Luke (Author), Roice Luke PH D (Author), Steven Walston PH D (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1567932150 | ISBN-13: 978-1567932157 | Publication Date: January 2004 | Edition: 1

With a focus on the five P's of competitive advantage-power, position, pace, potential, performance-this text selectively applies and adapts the concepts and methods of strategy analysis to the unique constraints and realities of the healthcare industry. This comprehensive text gives your students the basics of strategy, provides them with the know-how to adapt to their future organization's unique strategic plan. Benefits: Accompanying web-based study system, Stratcenter, will give students access to current information on numerous hospitals and healthcare systems across the country. Through this site, healthcare systems can be analyzed and compared to similar systems across the country. (The link to StratCenter will be available upon the book's publication.) An online Reader's Guide that provides information on using the StratCenter will also be available upon the book's publication. Text is truly geared towards the unique healthcare market, addressing subjects as payment structures, autonomous groups of health professionals, and merging systems.

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About the Author

Roice D. Luke, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Health Administration at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to coming to VCU, Luke was on the faculty of the Program in Health Administration at the University of Colorado at Denver. He served as program director while at Colorado and Chair at VCU.

Stephen L. Walston, Ph.D. is an associate professor at Indiana University. He has served as the director of Indiana University's Master in Health Administration Program. Prior to his present position he taught at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Patrick Michael Plummer is the founder & CEO of myHealthcareNews.com, the largest news-aggregating service for the business of healthcare on the web.

Product Details

• Paperback: 286 pages
• Publisher: Health Administration Press; 1 edition (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567932150
• ISBN-13: 978-1567932157
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #869,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Competitive strategy applied to provider-side healthcare, October 10, 2005

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This review is from: Healthcare Strategy: In Pursuit of Competitive Advantage (Paperback)

I was pleasantly surprised by this book, which provides a nice overview of the leading concepts in graduate-level, economics-based competitive strategy as it applies to provider-side healthcare. The book takes many of the key concepts and frameworks from the likes of Porter, Mintzberg, Ghemawat, Hamel, Prahalad, etc., and applies them to provider-based strategic competition in a way that is both intuitive and functional. If you're not already familiar with the authors mentioned above, the book is a good starting place for moving on to more advanced (though less healthcare- and provider-specific) work. Regardless, I'd highly recommend this book for those trying to improve the rigor of their strategic thinking for hospitals, medical groups, schools of medicine, and health systems.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book on healthcare strategy, October 11, 2008

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Liu, Xiao (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

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This is the second book for me about HC strategy. You can find very few book on this subject but I think this book is must read for new comers as its layout is great for both general understanding of competitive advantage and case-based strategies for healthcare providers. It covers in a short length the development of competitive advantage concepts and frameworks since 1800. It will be helpful to find out how the original concepts developed if you can move on to Porter's and Mintzberg's books.