Strategic Healthcare Management: Applying the Lessons of Today's Top Management Experts to the Business of Managed Care [Hardcover]

Ira Studin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1995

In the healthcare industry, the emergence of managed care, capitation and healthcare reform have dictated a greater need for sound business and management strategies. Strategic Healthcare Management applies the work of leading strategists Benjamin Tregoe and John Zimmerman, Kenichi Ohmae, Al Ries and Jack Trout, Bruce Henderson, Michael Porter, and Stan Davis and Bill Davidson to the healthcare industry. Strategic Healthcare Management presents the theories and principles of the "giants" in strategic planning and management with specific applications for you to use

Answers fundamental questions about the nature and direction of managed care

Looks at how you as a capitated provider must rethink the fundamentals of your production process END

Product Details

• Hardcover: 230 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies; 1 edition (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557386315
• ISBN-13: 978-1557386311
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,467,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting and useful for understanding managed care, January 7, 1997

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This review is from: Strategic Healthcare Management: Applying the Lessons of Today's Top Management Experts to the Business of Managed Care (Hardcover)

I found this book very thought provoking and interesting. His section about applying the theory of valuechains to managed care has caused a lot of comment in our office. In fact, I'm buying a second copy of the book today in self-defense because so many people want to borrow mine! Jean Stanfor

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5.0 out of 5 stars A toolbox for healthcare managers., July 15, 1996

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This review is from: Strategic Healthcare Management: Applying the Lessons of Today's Top Management Experts to the Business of Managed Care (Hardcover)

In a practical and unaffected, but powerfully comprehensive treatise, Dr. Studin manages to integrate his academic acumen and experiential skills to provide every student, physician, and experienced health care manager, the bases for the application of current managerial techniques to contemporary strategic healthcare management