The Physician-Manager Alliance: Building the Healthy Health Care Organization [Hardcover]

Stephen Davidson (Author), Marion McCollom (Author), Janelle Heineke (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 9, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0787902152 | ISBN-13: 978-0787902155 | Edition: 1

Shows how the clinician-manager partnership can develop effective policies and procedures that will provide health care that is timely, considerate, technologically appropriate, and responsive to patient needs.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The authors have written an important book, underscoring the necessity of cooperative and collaborative relationships between physicians and managers. Such partnerships of medicine and management, whose destinies are inextricably intertwined, are essential if organizations are to effectively and efficiently operate for the benefit of the people they serve." —Howard S. Zuckerman, professor, School of Health Administration and Policy, and director, Center for Health Management and Research, Arizona State College of Business

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The Physician-Manager Alliance details an approach to creating a healthy health care organization built on a new dynamic for clinician-manager relations that ultimately may restore confidence in our health care system. The authors argue that the key to any health care organization's success is the partnership of managers and physicians working toward the common goal of providing patients with quality service. To achieve that And, the book shows how the alliance of managers and physicians can develop effective policies and procedures that will provide health care that is timely, considerate, technologically appropriate, and responsive to patient needs.The authors reveal how medicine is actually practiced in today's health care organizations and offer informed guidance for needed improvements. As an example, they outline a problem solving approach based on an open systems framework that allows for adaptability and flexibility in decision making that can be effectively applied to particular situations and individual health care organizations.The Physician-Manager Alliance addresses vital and timely topics such as linkages between providers in different specialties and organizations; patient, employee, and physician satisfaction; development of effective physician-manager collaboration; and much more.This book is written for managers and physicians willing to accept the challenge of meeting the high standards of care that Americans have a right to expect from their health care organizations.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 257 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (February 9, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787902152
• ISBN-13: 978-0787902155
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,714,429 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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