دانلود کتاب Healthcare Delivery in the U.S.A.: An Introduction to Hospitals, Health Systems and Other Providers of Care

Whether our healthcare system reached its current crisis by way of fragmentation and misaligned policy or by way of self-interest and shortsightedness, what matters now is that the system is so convoluted and complex that only those intimate with its complex ways can hope to unravel the tangle. Creative healthcare providers and business experts adept at problem solving stand ready to weigh in with viable solutions but first they must be ordained in the terminology and the layers of confusion that have become endemic to the system. Margaret F. Schulte has made her reputation explaining the U.S. healthcare maze to IT professionals, students, and others not savvy to the arcane structures that make up our current system. With clarity that defies the very complexity of the problem, Dr. Schulte distills the whole of the U.S. healthcare system into something comprehensible if not logical and consequently, remediable. In this brilliantly simple work, she— Examines the history of U.S. healthcare and details the maze of the current unforgiving system Explores the regulations that add more complexity than protection Discusses current and potential means of financing Looks at the contemporary movement towards quality and the solutions that technology can offer The truth is that we are in a morass, and we need to invite fresh thinkers to the table, Healthcare Delivery in the USA: An Introduction will help those folks find their way to the table and once there, help them define new imperatives and goals that are all about the quality care we can no long afford to forego.