TY - BOOK ID - 48298777 TI - Healthcare Management : Managed Care Organisations and Instruments PY - 2019 SN - 3662595680 3662595672 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Health services administration. KW - Health administration KW - Health care administration KW - Health care management KW - Health sciences administration KW - Health services management KW - Medical care KW - Health planning KW - Public health administration KW - Administration KW - Management KW - Health economics. KW - Health care management. KW - Public health. KW - Health Economics. KW - Health Care Management. KW - Public Health. KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Social hygiene KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation KW - Economics, Medical KW - Health economics KW - Hygiene KW - Medicine KW - Economic aspects KW - PHealth Services Administration KW - Managed Care Programs KW - Managed Care KW - Case Management, Insurance KW - Insurance Case Management KW - Managed Health Care Insurance Plans KW - Care, Managed KW - Managed Care Program KW - Management, Insurance Case KW - Program, Managed Care KW - Programs, Managed Care KW - Cost Sharing KW - Case Management KW - Risk Sharing, Financial KW - Health Services Administration KW - Administration, Health Services KW - Health Services KW - organization & administration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48298777 AB - This textbook on Healthcare Management provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the organisational forms and management instruments implemented in managed care. Within the international discussion on the structure of healthcare systems, managed care is an increasingly important topic. Over more than twenty years managed care approaches have fundamentally influenced healthcare systems in terms of patient orientation, efficiency, and quality. Experts assume that up to 20% of healthcare expenses can be saved by applying high-quality managed care approaches. By using suitable organisational forms and management principles, not only can costs be reduced, but the quality of medical service provision can be augmented. Managed care is therefore much more than a cost-cutting strategy. Advocates consider managed care to be a logical and necessary developmental step in modern healthcare systems. An increase in quality and at the same time a reduction of costs is not seen as contradictory but rather as consistent. Therefore, managed care is a response to changed challenges in the provision of healthcare. ER -