New Leadership in Health Care Management: The Physician Executive-Second Edition

Editor: Wesley Curry

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New Leadership in Health Care Management: The Physician Executive-Second Edition

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A comprehensive and accurate portrait of a physician executive in the '90s and beyond, this text fully explains and explores the content and context of medical management. Revised and updated to reflect health care's rapidly changing structure and environment, new chapters look at integrated health systems, informatics, cost, quality, and more.

339 Pages © 1994

Table of Contents

Section One
The Context of Management

Chapter 1
The Challenges Facing American Medicine: The Search for a New Equilibrium and Its Implications for Physician Executives

Chapter 2
The Future of Medicine

Chapter 3
Physician Executives and Integrated Health Care Systems

Chapter 4
Why Physicians Move into Management

Chapter 5
The Unique Contribution of the Physician Executive to Health Care Management

Chapter 6
The Dual Role Dilemma

Chapter 7
The Credibility of and Necessity for the Physician Executive

Chapter 8
Key Management Skills for the Physician Executive

Chapter 9
Career Positioning

Chapter 10
Managing Physicians in Organizations

Chapter 11
Physician in Management: The Costs, Challenges, and Rewards

Section Two
The Content of Management

Chapter 12
Economics and U.S. Health Care

Chapter 13
Cost/Quality Relationships: A Generic Model for Health Care

Chapter 14
Medical Informatics and the Physician Executive

Chapter 15
Marketing as a Necessary Function in Health Care Management: A Philosophical Approach

Chapter 16
The Elements of Medical Quality Management

Chapter 17
Maintaining Quality in a Cost-Conscious Environment

Chapter 18
Discipline and Commitment

Chapter 19
Alternatives for Group Behavior Problems and Group Decision Making

Chapter 20
Communication as a Tool of Influence

Chapter 21
Hiring and Firing

Chapter 22
Reaching for the Stars: Effective Recruiting

Chapter 23
The Physician Executive and the Law