Returning to our origins
Article Abstract:
Health services administration education is becoming isolated from actual practice because courses are taught by instructors with little or no medical experience. Full-time faculty of graduate and undergraduate programs have degrees in business, economics and social sciences but not in medicine. Instructors should integrate both business expertise and medical experience to improve healthcare services. Integration methods include joint ventures between schools and hospitals that allow students and faculty actual practice time and access to research materials.
Publication Name: Hospital & Health Services Administration
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 8750-3735
Year: 1992
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The changing management of public agencies
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The trend for state public health organizations to employ managed care providers to implement Medicaid is changing the role of health care administrators and the curriculum of schools that offer degrees in health care administration. Private insurance companies and managed care organizations will find it necessary to employ knowledgeable public health care managers. Colleges and universities may find it necessary to drop some business courses and return to teaching public health, behavioral studies and epidemiology.
Publication Name: Hospital & Health Services Administration
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 8750-3735
Year: 1995
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Admission severity of illness and resource utilization: comparing Medicaid and privately insured patients
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A study of 14,557 patients was made to determine differences in the medical condition of Medicaid and privately insured patients at the time of hospital admission, their hospital length of stay and their ancillary charges. Results will assist medical care managers in negotiating reimbursements for various classifications of patients and for various types of diseases.
Publication Name: Hospital & Health Services Administration
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 8750-3735
Year: 1995
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