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There has been a sea-change in dermatology in the last three decades. Electronic communication, social networking, healthcare reform, the changing reimbursement scene, consumerism and the business of medicine, cosmetic dermatology and medical spas, and advances in genetic technology, all give rise to new ethical concerns. These developments combined with the frailties of human nature, to which physicians are not exempt, underscore the need for ongoing teaching and dialogue on contemporary issues in dermatologic ethics and professionalism. The public, accrediting organizations, and physicians themselves recognize the need for training resources in dermatology ethics and professionalism. Dermatoethics; Contemporary Ethics and Professionalism in Dermatology represents an analysis of real-life case scenarios that is both practical and scholarly. Each chapter deals with a specific topic by presenting one or more case vignettes pertinent to that topic. These topics are relevant for those teaching in ethics, dermatology trainees and practicing dermatologists in academia. The vignettes are followed by a detailed analysis by the chapter author identifying relevant contemporary trends as well as pertinent ethical principles. This book is readable, contemporary, and thought-provoking, yet scholarly and authoritative.

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Clinical research informatics (CRI) is the application of informatics principles and techniques to support the spectrum of activities and business processes that instantiate clinical research. Informatics, defined generally as the intersection of information and computer science with a health-related discipline, has a foundation drawn from many well-established, theory-based disciplines, including computer science, library and information science, cognitive science, psychology, and sociology. The newly articulated yet fundamental theorem of informatics states that information technology should be used to enable humans to function and perform better together than humans alone, and so informatics is a source for supportive technologies and tools that enhance – but not replace – unreservedly human processes. Clinical Research Informatics contributes to the ongoing dialogues among researchers and practitioners in CRI as they continue to rise to the challenges of a dynamic and evolving clinical research environment. The development of CRI as a sub-discipline of informatics, and as an independent/maturing professional practice area in its own right, drives a growing pool of scientific literature based on original CRI research, and high-impact tools and systems will be developed. CRI leaders and stakeholder groups will continue to support and create communities of discourse that will address much needed practice standards in CRI, improved safety and efficiencies in clinical research, data standards in clinical research, policy issues, educational standards and instructional resources. The Editors and contributors to this book are among the most active and engaged in the CRI domain and provide an excellent primer for deeper explorations into this emerging discipline. Certain themes are highlighted, including the changing role of the consumer, movement toward transparency, growing needs for global coordination and cooperation on many levels, and the merging together of clinical care delivery and research as part of a changing paradigm in global healthcare delivery – all in the context of rapid innovations in technology and explosions of data sources, types, and volume. This book is therefore of considerable interest to all students of biomedical informatics, from the newcomer to the professional informatician.

Automatic data processing. --- Medical informatics. --- Medicine. --- Practice of medicine. --- Information Science --- Research --- Science --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Informatics --- Biomedical Research --- Medical informatics --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Medical & Biomedical Informatics --- Data processing --- Clinical medicine --- Computer science. --- Research. --- Laboratory medicine. --- Health administration. --- Health informatics. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Health Informatics. --- Health Administration. --- Laboratory Medicine. --- Medical records --- Medical laboratories. --- Data processing. --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Physician practice acquisitions --- EHR systems --- EHR technology --- EHRs (Electronic health records) --- Electronic health records --- Electronic medical records --- EMR systems --- EMRs (Electronic medical records) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Diagnosis, Laboratory --- Health facilities --- Laboratories --- Medical care --- Clinical informatics --- Health informatics --- Medical information science --- Information science --- Clinical pathology --- Diagnostic laboratory tests --- Laboratory diagnosis --- Laboratory medicine --- Medical laboratory diagnosis --- Diagnosis --- Pathology

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This Briefs Series book illustrates in depth a concept of healthcare management engineering and its domain for hospital and clinic operations. Predictive and analytic decision-making power of management engineering methodology is systematically compared to traditional management reasoning by applying both side by side to analyze 26 concrete operational management problems adapted from hospital and clinic practice. The problem types include: clinic, bed and operating rooms capacity; patient flow; staffing and scheduling; resource allocation and optimization; forecasting of patient volumes and seasonal variability; business intelligence and data mining; and game theory application for allocating cost savings between cooperating providers.             Detailed examples of applications are provided for quantitative methods such as discrete event simulation, queuing analytic theory, linear and probabilistic optimization, forecasting of a time series, principal component decomposition of a data set and cluster analysis, and the Shapley value for fair gain sharing between cooperating participants. A summary of some fundamental management engineering principles is provided.             The goal of the book is to help to bridge the gap in mutual understanding and communication between management engineering professionals and hospital and clinic administrators.             The book is intended primarily for hospital/clinic leadership who are in charge of making managerial decisions. This book can also serve as a compendium of introductory problems/projects for graduate students in Healthcare Management and Administration, as well as for MBA programs with an emphasis in Healthcare. .

Health services administration -- Data processing. --- Health services administration -- Decision making. --- Operations research. --- Hospitals --- Industrial engineering --- Computing Methodologies --- Systems Analysis --- Research --- Health Care --- Health Occupations --- Science --- Information Science --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Operations Research --- Automatic Data Processing --- Health Services Administration --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Hospitals & Medical Centers --- Public Health - General --- Administration --- Mathematical models --- Mathematics --- Health services administration --- Medical care. --- Decision making. --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Health administration --- Health care administration --- Health care management --- Health sciences administration --- Health services management --- Medical care --- Management --- Medicine. --- Health care management. --- Health services administration. --- Health administration. --- Biomedical engineering. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Health Administration. --- Health Care Management. --- Biomedical Engineering. --- Health planning --- Public health administration --- Public health --- Practice of medicine. --- Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. --- Clinical engineering --- Medical engineering --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Engineering --- Medicine --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Physician practice acquisitions

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This edited volume captures and communicates the best thinking on how to improve healthcare by improving the delivery of services -- providing care when and where it is needed most -- through application of state-of-the-art scheduling systems.  Over 12 chapters, the authors cover aspects of setting appointments, allocating healthcare resources, and planning to ensure that capacity matches needs for care.    A central theme of the book is increasing healthcare efficiency so that both the cost of care is reduced and more patients have access to care.  This can be accomplished through reduction of idle time, lessening the time needed to provide services and matching resources to the needs where they can have the greatest possible impact on health.  Within their chapters, authors address: (1)   Use of scheduling to improve healthcare efficiency. (2)   Objectives, constraints and mathematical formulations. (3)   Key methods and techniques for creating schedules. (4)   Recent developments that improve the available problem solving methods. (5)   Actual applications, demonstrating how the methods can be used. (6)   Future directions in which the field of research is heading.  Collectively, the chapters provide a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of models and methods for scheduling the delivery of patient care for all parts of the healthcare system.   Chapter topics include setting appointments for ambulatory care and outpatient procedures, surgical scheduling, nurse scheduling, bed management and allocation, medical supply logistics and routing and scheduling for home healthcare. .

Health services administration --- Medical appointments and schedules --- Health planning --- Health Services Administration --- Appointments and Schedules --- Health Planning --- Models, Organizational --- Personnel Staffing and Scheduling --- Health services administration. --- Health planning. --- Comprehensive health planning --- Health care planning --- Health services planning --- Medical care --- Medical care planning --- Public health --- Health administration --- Health care administration --- Health care management --- Health sciences administration --- Health services management --- Planning --- Administration --- Management --- Business. --- Operations research. --- Decision making. --- Health administration. --- Management science. --- Business and Management. --- Operation Research/Decision Theory. --- Health Administration. --- Operations Research, Management Science. --- Medical policy --- Public health administration --- Practice of medicine. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Physician practice acquisitions --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Quantitative business analysis --- Problem solving --- Operations research --- Statistical decision --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Decision making --- Public health administration.

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The negative consequences of natural hazard events are staggering and growing. Governments are acting to increase community resilience, reduce losses, and facilitate recovery, but these actions do not always yield anticipated consequences. This book is a compelling interdisciplinary analysis of California’s efforts to ensure that acute care hospitals survive earthquakes and continue to function in the aftermath. The book weaves together several threads essential to understanding the effectiveness of public policies intended to reduce the consequences of natural hazard events: public policy design and administration, the hazard mitigation investment decision made by targeted organizations, and contextual dynamics.  "A terrific study of shortfalls in the implementation of risk-reduction policy -- highly readable, full of insights, and very policy relevant."  Peter J. May, Donald R. Matthews Distinguished Professor of American Politics, University of Washington, Seattle USA  "This is an exceptional book by three of the leading hazard mitigation researchers and must reading for both scholars and practitioners in the field."  William A. Anderson, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.

Emergency management. --- Hazard mitigation. --- Hospitals -- Administration. --- Hospitals --- Emergency management --- Hazard mitigation --- Social Control Policies --- Social Sciences --- Facility Design and Construction --- Disasters --- Geological Processes --- Pacific States --- Social Control, Formal --- Geological Phenomena --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- United States --- Health Facilities --- Architecture as Topic --- Policy --- Physical Processes --- Environment --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- North America --- Physical Phenomena --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Sociology --- Health Care --- Phenomena and Processes --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Americas --- Geographic Locations --- Geographicals --- Economics --- Hospital Design and Construction --- Public Policy --- Disaster Planning --- California --- Earthquakes --- Public Health --- Geography --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Hospitals & Medical Centers --- Physical Geography --- Emergency Medical Services --- Administration --- Earthquake hazard analysis --- Law and legislation --- Earthquake hazard assessment --- Hazard analysis, Earthquake --- Seismic hazard analysis --- Seismic risk assessment --- Seismic vulnerability assessment --- Disaster mitigation --- Hazards mitigation --- Mitigation, Hazard --- Natural hazard mitigation --- Natural hazards mitigation --- Hazard analysis --- Earth sciences. --- Political science. --- Natural disasters. --- Health administration. --- Earth Sciences. --- Natural Hazards. --- Political Science. --- Health Administration. --- Earthquake engineering --- Geology. --- Practice of medicine. --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Physician practice acquisitions --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Natural calamities