Administration category: 6852 books
Managing Local Governments
Designing Management Control Systems that Deliver Value
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Local Government is an area where management skills are tested to the extreme. With political considerations evident both locally and nationally, managing resources can be complex and subject to change.
This book introduces new concepts and new ways of doing business that can greatly enhance...
The Public Administrator's Companion
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Help your students make the leap from theory to practice. This handy guide emphasizes application with straightforward instruction and abundant case material. It provides brief, tested steps for addressing management, resource, and operational needs, encouraging students to develop and hone...
Powerful Medicines
The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug’s safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more...
Health Information Technology Evaluation Handbook
From Meaningful Use to Meaningful Outcome
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Governments and clinical providers are investing billions of dollars in health information technologies. This is being done with the expectation that HIT adoption will translate into healthier patients experiencing better care at lower cost. As the first wave of adoption comes to an end, stakeholders...
Designed to Adapt
Leading Healthcare in Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Dr. John Kenagy’s formula for saving healthcare one problem at a time is termed “Adaptive Design,” a set of methods, skills and tools designed to get healthcare back to the ideals of patient care by cultivating adaptability into the everyday work of the organization and its people.
Dr....
by XiaoHu Wang, Evan M. Berman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Known for its brevity and student-friendly approach, Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts remains one of the most popular introductory books on statistics for public policy and public administration students, using carefully selected examples tailored specifically for them....
by Peter N. Fish
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Guide to the duties, customs, organization, administration, resources, and benefits for medical officers in the U.S. Army.
Leading-Edge Research in Public Sector Innovation
Structure, Dynamics, Values and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Government and non-profit innovation has emerged as a strong cross-disciplinary research field with its own schools of study. Innovation is studied in fields and organizations that are open to trying out new policies, programs and processes. In twenty-two years of publication, The Innovation Journal:...
by Jim Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Whether striving to protect citizens from financial risks, climate change, inadequate health care, or the uncertainties of the emerging sharing” economy, regulators must routinely make difficult judgment calls in an effort to meet the conflicting demands that society places on them.
Operating...
Policy Analysis
Concepts and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Often described as a public policy “bible,” Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy...
Public Policy
Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
In Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To encourage critical and creative thinking on issues ranging from the federal deficit to health care reform to climate change, authors Michael Kraft...
Healthcare Technology Innovation Adoption
Electronic Health Records and Other Emerging Health Information Technology Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book aims to study the factors effecting the adoption and diffusion of Health Information Technology (HIT) innovation. It analyses the adoption processes of various tools and applications, particularly Electronic Health Records (EHR), highlighting the impact on various sectors of the healthcare...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This unifying volume offers a clear theoretical framework for the research shaping the emerging direction of informatics in health care. Contributors ground the reader in the basics of informatics methodology and design, including creating salient research questions, and explore the human dimensions...
by Sandford Borins, Kenneth Kernaghan, David Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2007
The impact of information technology (IT) on government in the last five years has been profound. Using the governments of Canada and Ontario (both recognized as international leaders in the use of IT) as case studies, Digital State at the Leading Edge is the first attempt to take a comprehensive...