Publisher's Synopsis
The health care industry is moving from an emphasis on cost containment to a growing fascination with the concept of value. How is value created? How can it be assessed? Strategic Management for Health Care Entities provides a creative, integrative, and practical road map for addressing these questions.
Highlights include:
–The integration of financial and accounting analysis with quality of care and outcomes reporting
–How medical facility and service codes can be used for competitor analysis and strategic market assessment
–A newly developed medical technology index that serves as a benchmark in the strategic assessment of community hospitals
Strategic Management for Health Care Entities provides a framework for considering the changes still to come as providers, payers, and the public define new types of accountability and search for common ground in creation greater health care value.
