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  • How Hockey Can Save Healthcare: A Principle - Based Approach to Reforming the Canadian Healthcare System

    by Stephen Pinney MD ...
    Canadians are passionate about their healthcare system—and their hockey. While the Canadian medical system is a source of pride—based on ideals of universal coverage, public funding, and high-quality medical care—this treasured healthcare system is failing due to soaring costs, the challenge of an aging population, and poor care delivery. It needs a reality check. Dr. Stephen Pinney pulls the ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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  • Better Now

    Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians

    by Dr. Danielle Martin ...
    Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy expert, she knows how to close those gaps. A passionate believer in the value of fairness that underpins the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Patient Will See You Now

    The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

    by Eric Topol ...
    **The essential guide to how digital technology enables all of us to take charge of our health“Dr. Topol’s vision is compelling, combining an empowering view of technology with the recognition that medicine requires something more.”―Wall Street Journal**A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery: you make an appointment months in advance, wait for several hours when you arrive, talk to a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

    by Clayton Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. Jason Hwang ...
    A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendary leader in innovation . . .Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations.We need a cure, and we need it now.Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • An American Sickness

    How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

    by Elisabeth Rosenthal ...
    **A New York Times bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and NPR"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Redefining Health Care

    Creating Value-based Competition on Results

    by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg ...
    The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums—not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets.In Redefining Health Care, internationally renowned strategy expert Michael Porter and innovation expert Elizabeth Teisberg reveal the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Managing the Myths of Health Care

    Bridging the Separations between Care, Cure, Control, and Community

    by Henry Mintzberg ...
    “Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don't want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to reframing the management and organization of health care.The problem is not management per se but a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't

    by William J. Baumol, Monte Malach, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Lillian Gomory Wu ...
    The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Nursing against the Odds

    How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care

    by Suzanne Gordon ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    In the United States and throughout the industrialized world, just as the population of older and sicker patients is about to explode, we have a major shortage of nurses. Why are so many RNs dropping out of health care's largest profession? How will the lack of skilled, experienced caregivers affect patients? These are some of the questions addressed by Suzanne Gordon's definitive account of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Harvard Business Review on Fixing Healthcare from Inside & Out

    by Harvard Business Review ...
    How can management cure health care's ills?If you need the best practices and ideas for transforming health care--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.The HBR articles in this collection propose several remedies:- Organizing doctors into teams- Focusing incentives on patients' recovery- Saving lives and dollars by ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Effective Medical Leadership

    by Bryce Taylor ...
    Series series Rotman-UTP Publishing
    The modern hospital represents a complex community in which life and death decisions are made on the front lines of patient care, and difficult operational and strategic initiatives are developed in the offices of institutional leaders. Effective Medical Leadership describes the unusual position of a medical leader in an organization often administered by non-medical managers.Through extensive and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Service Fanatics: How to Build Superior Patient Experience the Cleveland Clinic Way

    by James Merlino ...
    THE PROVEN MODEL FOR DRIVING POSITIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGECleveland Clinic has long been recognized for driving some of the best clinical outcomes in the nation, but it was not always a leader in patient experience. There was atime when this revered organization ranked among the lowest in the country in this area. Within ten years, however, it had climbed to among the highest and has emerged as ... Read more

    $27.39 USD