Healthcare Strategy: In Pursuit of Competitive Advantage
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1567932150 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 286 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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This comprehensive text gives your students the basics of strategy, provides them with the know-how to adapt to their future organization's unique strategic plan. Benefits: Accompanying web-based study system, Stratcenter, will give students access to current information on numerous hospitals and healthcare systems across the country. Text is truly geared towards the unique healthcare market, addressing subjects as payment structures, autonomous groups of health professionals, and merging systems.. With a focus on the five P's of competitive advantage-power, position, pace, potential, performance-this text selectively applies and adapts the concepts and methods of strategy analysis to the unique constraints and realities of the healthcare industry. Through this site, healthcare systems can be analyzed and compared to similar systems across the country. (The link to StratCenter will be available upon the book's publication.) An online Reader's Guide that provides information on using the StratCenter will also be available upon the book's publication
Prior to his present position he taught at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Walston, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Health Administration at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He has served as the director of Indiana University's Master in Health Administration Program. Roice D. Patrick Michael Plummer is the
He has served as the director of Indiana University's Master in Health Administration Program. Prior to his present position he taught at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Patrick Michael Plummer is the founder & CEO of myHealthcareNews, the largest news-aggregating service for the business of healthcare on the web. Stephen L. About the Author Roice D. Prior to coming to VCU, Luke was on the faculty of the Program in Health Administration at the University of Colorado at Denver. He served as program director while at Colorado and Chair at VCU. is a professor in the Department of Health Administration at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Walston, Ph.D. . is an associate professor at In
"Competitive strategy applied to provider-side healthcare" according to Benjamin Alex. I was pleasantly surprised by this book, which provides a nice overview of the leading concepts in graduate-level, economics-based competitive strategy as it applies to provider-side healthcare. The book takes many of the key concepts and frameworks from the likes of Porter, Mintzberg, Ghemawat, Hamel, Prahalad, etc., and applies them to provider-based strategic co. Great book on healthcare strategy This is the second book for me about HC strategy. You can find very few book on this subject but I think this book is must read for new comers as its layout is great for both general understanding of competitive advantage and case-based strategies for healthcare providers. It covers in a short length the development of competitive advantage concepts and frameworks . "Helped me pass the class" according to D. Baichulall. Helped me pass my healthcare strategy class. Had open book tests on there, and this book was used to find the answers. Other than that class, it's pretty much useless, but you can learn a lot about businesses and the strategies behind them through here