Making Managed Healthcare Work or Effective Communication for Colleges

Making Managed Healthcare Work: A Practical Guide to Strategies and Solutions

Author: Peter Boland

Making Managed Healthcare Work is your comprehensive guide to developing and implementing a new strategic approach to managed care that's practical, performance—based, and results—oriented. Learn how to prepare for, identify, pursue, negotiate and implement a new type of managed care arrangement that can accomplish the objective of delivering quality care at competitive prices.

Kevin Croke

This book describes the variety of factors that contribute to or inhibit the success of managed care as a means of delivering quality care and effective cost containment. The purpose is to establish the type of cooperative arrangement among providers, payers, and purchasers necessary to make managed care work. Given the significance of managed care to the future of the American health care system, the objective is well defined. The book is useful for providers and purchasers of managed care as well as a text for a graduate course. The contributors represent a wide variety of outlooks and experience in the managed care field. The illustrations are not useful. The references are current and pertinent. The case studies provide interesting insights. The index and table of contents are adequate, and the overall appearance of the book is good. This book presents a variety of perspectives on what it will take to make managed care fulfill its promise as a major tool to enhance the cost/quality position of American health care. It is not a how-to book, but it does explain major factors to be considered in designing managed care systems.

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Reviewer: Kevin Croke, PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: This book describes the variety of factors that contribute to or inhibit the success of managed care as a means of delivering quality care and effective cost containment.
Purpose: The purpose is to establish the type of cooperative arrangement among providers, payers, and purchasers necessary to make managed care work. Given the significance of managed care to the future of the American health care system, the objective is well defined.
Audience: The book is useful for providers and purchasers of managed care as well as a text for a graduate course. The contributors represent a wide variety of outlooks and experience in the managed care field.
Features: The illustrations are not useful. The references are current and pertinent. The case studies provide interesting insights. The index and table of contents are adequate, and the overall appearance of the book is good.
Assessment: This book presents a variety of perspectives on what it will take to make managed care fulfill its promise as a major tool to enhance the cost/quality position of American health care. It is not a how-to book, but it does explain major factors to be considered in designing managed care systems.

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3 Stars from Doody

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Effective Communication for Colleges

Author: Clarice Pennebaker Brantley

Updated with the most current trends in the workplace this text continues to provide its proven process approach. With updated and enhanced chapters on technology, short reports, interviewing skills, customer communication, visual/graphics presentations and technical communication, the reader can prepare effective workplace correspondence for our expanding technology-driven world.

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New edition of a text that presents a three-step approach for achieving successful communication in today's workplace. The principles and strategies cover how to execute messages for both print and electronic transmission, as well as how to facilitate communication with diverse audiences. In the 11 chapters, Brantley (president, Innovative Training Team) and Miller (business and graphic arts, Milwaukee Area Technical College) discuss the communication cycle; elements of effective messages; the communication-by-objectives approach (planning, composing, and completing a message); electronic technology; good, neutral, persuasive, and bad news messages; job searches, resum<'e>s, and cover letters; applications, interviews, and follow-up; visuals, presentations, and instructions; and reports in the workplace. Spiral binding. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1. Communication and Electronic Technology. 2. Qualities of Effective Messages. 3. Planning and Developing Messages. 4. Document Preparation. 5. Good News and Neutral News Messages. 6. Bad News Messages. 7. Persuasive Messages. 8. Employment Messages. 9. Reports in the Workplace.