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Healthcare Management [electronic resource] : Managed Care Organisations and Instruments / by Volker Eric Amelung.

By: Amelung, Volker Eric [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Springer Texts in Business and Economics: Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013Description: XIII, 267 p. 62 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783642387128.Subject(s): Business | Health care management | Health services administration | Public health | Health administration | Health economics | Medical economics | Business and Management | Health Care Management | Health Administration | Health Economics | Public HealthAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 362.10681 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Basic Ideas of Managed Care -- Managed Care Organisations and Products -- Managed Care Instruments -- Evaluation of Managed Care.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: Within the international discussion on the structure of healthcare systems, managed care is an increasingly important topic. Over more than twenty years managed care approaches have fundamentally influenced healthcare systems in terms of patient orientation, efficiency, and quality. Experts assume that up to 20% of healthcare expenses can be saved by applying high-quality managed care approaches. By using suitable organisational forms and management principles, not only can costs be reduced, but the quality of medical service provision can be augmented. Managed care is therefore much more than a cost-cutting strategy. The goal of this book is to offer a systematic overview of the organisational forms and management instruments implemented in managed care. Advocates consider managed care to be a logical and necessary developmental step in modern healthcare systems. An increase in quality and at the same time a reduction of costs is not seen as contradictory but rather as consistent. Therefore, managed care is a response to changed challenges in the provision of healthcare.
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Basic Ideas of Managed Care -- Managed Care Organisations and Products -- Managed Care Instruments -- Evaluation of Managed Care.

Within the international discussion on the structure of healthcare systems, managed care is an increasingly important topic. Over more than twenty years managed care approaches have fundamentally influenced healthcare systems in terms of patient orientation, efficiency, and quality. Experts assume that up to 20% of healthcare expenses can be saved by applying high-quality managed care approaches. By using suitable organisational forms and management principles, not only can costs be reduced, but the quality of medical service provision can be augmented. Managed care is therefore much more than a cost-cutting strategy. The goal of this book is to offer a systematic overview of the organisational forms and management instruments implemented in managed care. Advocates consider managed care to be a logical and necessary developmental step in modern healthcare systems. An increase in quality and at the same time a reduction of costs is not seen as contradictory but rather as consistent. Therefore, managed care is a response to changed challenges in the provision of healthcare.

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