Taxonomy of Risk-Sharing Agreements

Risk-sharing arrangements (RSAs), also known as managed entry agreements (MEAs), are often categorized as financial/non-health outcome or health outcome-based1. RSAs have been predominantly adopted in the pharmaceutical sector, though they are gaining traction also in the medical device industry, particularly in areas such as diabetes.

Eight Ways to Reduce State Healthcare Costs

Medicaid programs nationwide face many new challenges. Burgeoning Medicaid enrollment and revenue shortfalls (and the resulting budget cuts) have placed a significant burden on the states’ ability to support their existing programs. The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has stretched Medicaid capabilities and resources even further. The Health Information Technolog…

Hospital Management & Information System (HMIS)

Quintegra’s HMIS is a revolutionary solution with end-to-end features for simplifying hospital management –all at a cost which provides the fastest ROI
Access to the right information and the automation of complex tasks & workflow is the key focus of the HMIS, enabling freeing the staff to spend more time on caring for patients and extending the reach of services
The HMIS is d…

Information and Communication Technology in Healthcare Management Systems: Pr…

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are being widely used in healthcare management systems. Rapid advancements in ICT in the last decade or so provide solutions to the problems in healthcare management systems. These include a wide spectrum of issues such as patient safety, dietary management, telemedicine, digital imaging, document management etc. This paper explores the emerging …

Positive practice environments for health care professionals

Today there is a global health workforce crisis – one marked by critical imbalances. Many countries are faced with the challenge of shortages of dentists, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists and other health workers. In some countries these shortages co-exist with underemployed and unemployed health professionals, because of funding shortfalls, planning inadequacies and geographic …

Quality Assurance of Health Care In Developing Countries

The Quality Assurance Project (QAP) was initiated in 1990 to develop and implement sustainable approaches for improving the quality of health care in less developed countries. QAP has two broad objectives: 1) to provide technical assistance in designing and implementing effective strategies for monitoring quality and correcting systemic deficiencies; and 2) to re- fine existing methods for en…

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND MEASUREMENT

Since accountability for performance has become increasingly critical in health care, it is necessary for an organization to understand the key drivers behind its performance and demonstrate the results of its work. Performance measurement has many interrelationships with quality improvement (QI), and focus on the use of the data is one of the four key principles of QI discussed in the Quality…

Health Care Records - Documentation and Management

The Health Care Records Policy defines the requirements for the documentation and management of health care records across public health organisations in the NSW public health system. The Policy ensures that high standards for documentation and management of health care records are maintained consistent with common law, legislation, ethical and current best practice requirements.

FUNDAMENTALS OF IMMIGRATION LAW

Before the enactment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (“IIRIRA”), the decision as to whether an alien was subject to deportation proceedings or exclusion proceedings was based on whether or not the alien had made an “entry” into the U.S. An alien who had made an entry was entitled to a deportation hearing and the greater procedural safeguards it…

The COMPLETE HOME

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THE ROUGH GUIDE TO Economics

One of the main concerns of economics is how best to allocate scarce resources. This preface aims to help allocate scarce copies of this book to the right readers, and guide different readers through various ways of using it.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY a step-by-step guide for beginners

This book is based upon my experiences in research as a student, practitioner and teacher. The difficulties I faced in understanding research as a student, my discoveries about what was applicable and inapplicable in the field as a practitioner, and my development of the ability effectively to communicate difficult concepts in simple language without sacrificing technicality and accuracy as …

Project Management

Project management has evolved from its formative stages in the 1940s to become a leading international and interdisciplinary application. The relevant professional bodies (the International Project Management Association and Project Management Institute) operate globally and across most areas of industry and commerce. Project management practices and procedures operate across a wide range of a…

Types of Business Organization

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Corporate Finance Principles & Practice

Introduction Corporate finance is concerned with the financing and investment decisions made by the management of companies in pursuit of corporate goals. As a subject, corporate finance has a theoretical base which has evolved over many years and which continues to evolve as we write. It has a practical side too, concerned with the study of how companies actually make financing and invest…

Management Information Systems MANAGING THE DIGITAL FIRM

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Owen Graduate School of Management

OGSM students are expected to meet standards of personal and professional integrity. This bulletin is designed to acquaint OGSM students with the expectations of them and their responsibilities as members of the university community. This bulletin is available online on Blackboard, Owen Catalog 2015- 2016, and all students receive a copy during orientation. It is the student’s responsibility …

BUSINESS FINANCE Theory and Practice

This book attempts to deal with financing and investment decision making, with particular focus on the private sector of the UK economy. Its approach is to set out the theories that surround each area of financial decision making and relate these to what appears to happen in practice. Where theory and practice diverge, the book tries to reconcile and explain the differences. It also attempt…

Optimisation in Economic Theory Second Edition

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My Lady Ludlow

I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they were in my youth. Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches, carrying six inside, and making a two days' journey out of what people now go over in a couple of hours with a whizz and a flash, and a screaming whistle, enough to deafen one. Then letters came in but three times a week; indeed, in some places in Scotland where I…

How to Manage Series for Healthcare Technology

All health service providers want to get the most out of their investments. To enable them to do so, they need to actively manage health service assets, ensuring that they are used efficiently and optimally. All management takes place in the context of your health system’s policies and finances. If these are favourable, the management of health service assets can be effective and efficient, a…

MACROECONOMICS

An economist must be “mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher, in some degree . . . as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near the earth as a politician.” So remarked John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist who, as much as anyone, could be called the father of macroeconomics. No single statement summarizes better what it means to be an economist. …

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Methods & Techniques

I feel encouraged by the widespread response from teachers and students alike to the first edition. I am presenting this second edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged, to my readers in all humbleness. All possible efforts have been made to enhance further the usefulness of the book. The feedback received from different sources has been incorporated. In this edition a new chapter on “The…

Fundamentals of human resource management Emerging experiences from Africa

This book is not just one of the many introductions to Human Resource Management that are published, year after year, for use in HRM classes. Authors of those introductions face many challenges, such as the need to produce something that is both theoretically sound and practically valuable, or to find a way to integrate discussions on a variety of topics into one comprehensible teaching too…

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