The Retail Revolution in Health Care

The Retail Revolution in Health Care
Author: Myron D. Fottler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2010-02-26
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0313366241

This book unveils and demystifies a revolution occurring in health care in the United States and beyond and how it will reform the health care system. There is something new in health care. Retail clinics, sometimes partnering with prestigious health-care institutions such as the Cleveland Clinic, offer an affordable, accessible solution for delivering primary-care services to underserved populations. The Retail Revolution in Health Care presents an overview of the retail health trend and its implications for consumers, employers, health care providers, health care companies, insurers, and health policy makers. The authors examine the phenomenon of retail health care from an entrepreneurial perspective, discussing the growth of retail care beyond traditional retail establishments and possible performance indicators to assess health outcomes. They report on the differing perspectives of retail care from a variety of experts, including doctors, nurses, patients, and insurers. Finally, they address business realities in the United States and globally as they affect the clinics. Retail clinics will almost certainly play a key role as either an alternative to national health insurance or a component of health reform. This important book explores their part in furthering the availability of health care for all Americans.

The Retail Revolution

The Retail Revolution
Author: Nelson Lichtenstein
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2009-07-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1429989718

The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change means Wal-Mart, the world's largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology, Reagan-era politics, and Protestant evangelism, Sam Walton's firm became a byword for cheap goods and low-paid workers, famed for the ruthless efficiency of its global network of stores and factories. But the revolution has gone further: Sam's protégés have created a new economic order which puts thousands of manufacturers, indeed whole regions, in thrall to a retail royalty. Like the Pennsylvania Railroad and General Motors in their heyday, Wal-Mart sets the commercial model for a huge swath of the global economy. In this lively, probing investigation, historian Nelson Lichtenstein deepens and expands our knowledge of the merchandising giant. He shows that Wal-Mart's rise was closely linked to the cultural and religious values of Bible Belt America as well as to the imperial politics, deregulatory economics, and laissez-faire globalization of Ronald Reagan and his heirs. He explains how the company's success has transformed American politics, and he anticipates a day of reckoning, when challenges to the Wal-Mart way, at home and abroad, are likely to change the far-flung empire. Insightful, original, and steeped in the culture of retail life, The Retail Revolution draws on first hand reporting from coastal China to rural Arkansas to give a fresh and necessary understanding of the phenomenon that has transformed international commerce.

The Customer Revolution in Healthcare: Delivering Kinder, Smarter, Affordable Care for All

The Customer Revolution in Healthcare: Delivering Kinder, Smarter, Affordable Care for All
Author: David W. Johnson
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2019-09-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1260455580

Customer-centric, market-driven solutions for fixing America’s broken healthcare system—from one of the industry’s most innovative thought leaders. Healthcare accounts for nearly a fifth of the U.S. economy. Everyone agrees that the current system is broken and in desperate need of repair. It should cost less, tackle chronic disease, and promote health. It requires a massive shift in resources from acute services to better care management, behavioral health, and primary care services. The question isn’t what to do. It’s how to do it. The revolution starts by meeting and supporting consumers’ real health needs. It’s time for American healthcare to serve the people. This is The Customer Revolution in Healthcare. Written by leading healthcare strategist and commentator David W. Johnson, this groundbreaking book is more than a wake-up call. It’s a point-by-point action plan to: • Blow up the “Healthcare Industrial Complex” • Liberate data and empower consumers with technology • Promote agile, innovative, and customer-centric “platform” companies • Reduce costs, improve service, and generate superior outcomes • Deliver personalized care with precisions and compassion • Explain and address America’s self-created opioid crisis • Provide affordable and accessible health insurance for all • Turbocharge the U.S. economy • Foster healthier communities Revolutionary healthcare empowers patients and providers alike. Competitive healthcare companies reconfigure inefficient business models to deliver appropriate, accessible, holistic, and reliable care at lower costs. Caregivers engage patients with insight and compassion informed by real-time data and analytics. Payers reward health companies that deliver great outcomes and great service at competitive prices while keeping members as healthy as possible. Investors fund innovative companies whose products and services delight customers. And consumers receive compassionate, affordable, convenient healthcare that meets their needs. Most important, The Customer Revolution in Healthcare provides a robust framework for aligning economic incentives with patient needs to deliver better outcomes at lower costs with superior customer service. The future of healthcare belongs to innovative customer-centric health companies that deliver kinder, smarter, more affordable care—to all.

Handbook of Healthcare Management

Handbook of Healthcare Management
Author: Myron D. Fottler
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2015-09-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 178347016X

The Handbook of Healthcare Management is a comprehensive examination of key management practices for global healthcare organizations, arguing that insight into and implementation of these practices is essential for success and sustainability.

Flipping Health Care through Retail Clinics and Convenient Care Models

Flipping Health Care through Retail Clinics and Convenient Care Models
Author: Kaissi, Amer
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2014-08-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1466663561

Over time, a country’s healthcare system typically undergoes a number of developments as new demands emerge from the public and new legislation is passed from the government. These systems are composed of a number of interconnected parts, each one vital to the overall success of the system. Flipping Health Care through Retail Clinics and Convenient Care Models addresses the present state of the health system by focusing on current trends and future developments that could assist in delivering accessible and cost-effective medical care to the general public. Bringing together components of the present and future, this publication serves as an essential tool for students and researchers who want to develop a thorough understanding of the changing scope of the health industry in the public sphere.

Strategic Human Resource Management in Health Care

Strategic Human Resource Management in Health Care
Author: Grant T. Savage
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2010-07-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1849509492

Strategic management of HR in health care is important in delivering high-quality patient care. This volume of Advances in Health Care Management which focuses on Human Resource Management aims to explore the strategic role that HRM can play in delivering high quality and affordable health care.

Health Care Marketing

Health Care Marketing
Author: Philip D. Cooper
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1994
Genre: Hastahane ekonomisi
ISBN: 9780834205277

Health Care Marketing: A Foundation for Managed Quality builds on tradition and delivers the very latest answers to the whats, whys, and hows of making effective marketing a reality in your health care organization. Included are journal articles, book chapters, scholarly papers, editorials, research reports, and case studies, all gathered here in a single timely and comprehensive source.

Managing Change

Managing Change
Author: Ewan Ferlie
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137518162

Managing Change is about implementing health care reforms, policies and programs into everyday practices. The book explores organizational change in health care as influenced by contemporary policy and management concepts, and presents and applies theoretical perspectives.