Journal of Healthcare Management articles from March 2000

Journal of Healthcare Management archives from March 2000

Interview with Graham T. T. Molitor, President of Public Policy Forecasting and Vice President of the World Future Society.
March 1, 2000... Graham Molitor is president of Public Policy Forecasting, a firm specializing in assessing government policy change, political, social, and technological trends. Since founding the company in 1977, Mr. Molitor has been a consultant to nearly...

Economic Models for Physician--Health System Partnerships.
March 1, 2000... This column is the second in a series that is exploring physician-health system relationships. In this issue and the next, we will discuss specific partnership models for physicians, hospitals, and health systems. This column will focus on...

Nothing but Net.
March 1, 2000... "The Internet is your business" --Michael Dell Usually, you save the best for last. However, when it comes to strategies to improve hospital and health system margins, I am leading off with the heaviest hitter--the Internet. I am doing...

Medicare and the Rules of National Policymaking: If A, then B.
March 1, 2000... The greatest single U.S. health policymaking challenge continues to be the control and future development of Medicare. Americans over 65 depend upon Medicare for payment of most medical expenses; the program currently costs the federal...

High Stakes Billing Decisions.
March 1, 2000... Six months after the hospital merger, Frank Smith, the CEO at University Medical Center, needed to make a number of critical decisions regarding billing systems. He had recently learned that, unless the billing systems of the two largest...

Creating a Healing Environment: The Importance of the Service Setting in the New Consumer-Oriented Healthcare System.
March 1, 2000... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the last ten years, the healthcare industry has recognized that the physical environment is a valuable resource that can and does affect all of its customers. Although most service organizations give some thought to...

Nontraditional Services Provided by Nonprofit and For-profit Hospitals: Implications for Community Health.
March 1, 2000... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In part because of reimbursement changes in the 1980s, hospitals became involved in health promotion and disease prevention activities often to attract patients. Today, these services may have an effect on the burden of...

HEALTH OF NATIONS: An International Perspective on U.S. Health Care Reform.
March 1, 2000... HEALTH OF NATIONS: An International Perspective on U.S. Health Care Reform, ed. 3 Laurene A. Graig; 1999, 200 pp., Congressional Quarterly Books In this third edition of the Health of Nations, Laurene Graig reveals how six...

From Advocacy to Ambassadorship: Physician Participation in Healthcare Governance.
March 1, 2000... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Increasingly, physician leaders are called upon to assume governance positions in healthcare organizations. These range from small group practices to integrated systems with a regional or even national presence. Yet the...