The 21st Century Health Care Leader or The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook with CD

The 21st Century Health Care Leader

Author: Roderick W Gilkey

Discover how top health care leaders envision the decades ahead and ensure your future as a 21st century health care leader. The 21st Century Health Care Leader brings together today's most influential and successful health care professionals whose valuable insight will assist current and future leaders exchange reactivity for proactivity, remain effective, and transform their organizations.
In 37 original chapters, this distinguished group of contributors describe the skills and competencies that will be required of tomorrow's health care executives and caregivers who desire to renew their organizations. With insight and candor, the authors show what it will take to prevail as a health care leader of tomorrow. Meet the myriad challenges of health care delivery including how to eliminate unnecessary duplication, competition, and inefficiency. In addition, health care professionals will learn how they can combine creativity and knowledge to design new business approaches and innovative organizations.
The 21st Century Health Care Leader offers a unique and compelling perspective on health care leadership and a powerful tool for any leader who wants to guarantee their future in the health care industry.

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Presents a collection of essays for administrators and others who must create the new organizations and systems that will provide higher- quality and lower-cost clinical care to a broad population with long life expectancies. Some of the topics addressed include eliminating unnecessary duplication, competition and inefficiency; making technical choices that offer substantial benefits but contain costs; and developing new strategies for financing medical education and training. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	The Editor
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Navigating to a New Century	1
1	The Three C's: Consumerism, Cyberhealth, and Co-Opetition	3
2	Forces and Scenarios That Will Shape Health Services Delivery	22
3	Policy Challenges	39
4	Ethical Values for a New Century	51
5	Preparing for the Global Health Transition	74
6	Public and Community Health	85
Pt. 2	The New Health Care Organization	91
7	What Comes After Consolidation?	93
8	Growing Effective Leadership in New Organizations	101
9	Reinventing the Academy	111
10	Leading Academic Health Centers	117
11	Decisions for Insurers	124
12	Seeing Insurance Through the Customer's Eyes	132
13	Leadership Skills and Strategies for the Integrated Community Health System	142
14	Alliances in a Changing Industry	149
Pt. 3	Serving Special Populations	159
15	Challenges for Women's Health	161
16	Fulfilling a Women's Health Agenda	171
17	Caring for an Aging Population	178
18	Geriatric Care	186
19	New Perspectives for Long-Term Care	199
20	Rural Health Systems	205
Pt. 4	Technology Leaders	217
21	The Evolving Role of Health Information	219
22	Wiring the Health Revolution	231
23	Strategic Health Care Computing	242
24	Technology-Induced Ethical Questions	250
Pt. 5	Clinical Leaders	259
25	Challenges to Physician Leaders	261
26	Core Competencies for Physicians	269
27	The Future of Nursing	278
28	Transforming Nursing Leadership	290
Pt. 6	Gaining New Skills	299
29	Leading Across the Network	301
30	Four Dimensions of Lasting Change	308
31	Developing Organizations by Developing Individuals	316
32	The Changing Dynamics of Customer Satisfaction and Its Measurement	323
33	Blending Health Care Organizations	331
Pt. 7	Managed Care: Answers and Questions	345
34	Regaining the Public's Trust in Managed Care	347
35	The New Health Economics	355
36	Managed Care and the Black Physician	368
37	Leading Behavioral Health Services	376
	Name Index	387
	Subject Index	393

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The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook with CD (Audio)

Author: Lou Russell

Teach your learners to work smarter, not harder!

The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook gives you the tools you need to ensure that maximum learning and maximum retention are taking place in your training sessions, sales sessions, and classrooms.

You'll learn how to:

Improve your communication skills

Identify the best way individual learners learn

Rethink your personal beliefs that block learning

Use music to create focused learning environments

Measure the effectiveness of a learning session . . . and more!

No other accelerated learning resource will offer you as many up-to-date tips, techniques, processes, and theories. Everything you need to create a learning organization--including a music CD to learn by--is between these covers. Enhance learning, foster a quicker grasp of the concepts you present, and ensure greater overall retention of your material with this complete, practical, and comprehensive fieldbook.

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A book/CD-ROM package for trainers, managers, teachers, and those in sales, supplying tools to ensure maximum learning and retention in training sessions, classrooms, and sales sessions. Tells how to improve communication skills and identify the best way individual learners learn, and explains how to use music, color, pacing, and visual aids to create focused learning environments. The CD-ROM contains two pieces of music to listen to while reading the book and doing practice exercises, designed to increase comprehension. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)