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| Description |
* What is managed care? * How does it fit with the current modernization of health services? * How should it be applied in particular contexts? Managed Care and Modernization is a handbook for healthcare managers and practitioners. Its primary aim is to give practical guidance on applying managed care techniques as part of the modernization of health services. David Cochrane and his contributors contextualize managed care, reviewing current policy and practice and exploring the major challenges facing health services. Throughout, they are concerned to assist practitioners in service design, delivery and management to adapt the techniques of managed care to their own needs and contexts. They draw on key examples from both American and British experience to indicate how managed care works in practice and how important is its development to the modernization of health services. This book is essential reading for all those involved in healthcare reform. |
| Author Biography |
David Cochrane is a senior management consultant and Honorary Fellow in Health Services Management at the University of Manchester. |
| Table of Contents |
Notes on contributors Managed care and modernization Part one: Contexts Managed care at the crossroads Managed care an American practitioner's perspective The modernization agenda Part two: Managed care in practice The new primary care is managed care Evidence-based medicine in practice Utilization management in primary and community care Utilization management in acute inpatient care Case management of the 'at-risk' elderly Managed care and mental health Part three: Developing the managed care agenda Benchmarking in healthcare performance management Modernizing the healthcare workforce The consumer last but not least Index. |
