| Description |
1 online resource : color illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A guide through the wilderness -- What as a healthcare system? -- Population health -- Goals of healthcare -- The 800-pound gorilla : rising healthcare costs -- Managing quality : another 800-pound gorilla? -- Healthcare providers -- The medical profession -- Primary care : physicians, nurses, and pharmacists -- Hospitals -- Hospital diversification, restructuring, and integration -- Organized ambulatory care -- Post-acute care -- Employer-based health insurance -- Contracting for prescription drug benefits : role of employers, insurers, and pharmacy benefit managers -- Private health insurance and managed care organizations -- Medicare -- Medicaid and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- The healthcare technology sectors -- The pharmaceutical sector -- The biotechnology sector -- The medtech sector -- Healthcare information technology -- The federal bureaucracy, the US Congress, and healthcare policy -- The public health system. |
| Summary |
"This text is differentiated from the many other healthcare delivery texts available in that it gives equal attention to the parties that pay for health care, the parties that provide healthcare, and the parties that produce the products used in healthcare. To this end, the author weaves a common thread throughout every chapter in the book that the goals of healthcare relate to the the iron triangle(cost, quality, and access) and the triple aim (per capita cost, population, health, and patient experience)"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (AccessMedicine, viewed on March 11, 2021). |
| Subject |
Health Services Administration. (DNLM)D006298
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Delivery of Health Care. (DNLM)D003695
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Health Care Sector. (DNLM)D019981
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Economics, Medical. (DNLM)D004470
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United States. (DNLM)D014481
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burns, Lawton R.. The U.S. healthcare ecosystem New York : McGraw Hill, [2021] 9781264264476 (DLC) 2021005675 (OCoLC)1199587325 |
| ISBN |
9781264264483 electronic book |
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1264264488 electronic book |
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9781264264476 paperback |
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126426447X paperback |
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