Already the number one text on health policy and rapidly becoming a classic, Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach 3E covers such fundamental topics as cost containment, health insurance, managed care, and physician and hospital payment. Extensive case histories, drawn from the authors' actual practice, bring to life important policy issues by pinpointing individual encounters within the healthcare system. 
 New to this Edition 
 * More information on 2-tier model of reimbursement * Greater emphasis on defined contribution approach to controlling costs * Includes comparative information on health care policy in Canada, the UK, and Germany * "Questions &amp; Discussion Topics" provided for each chapter to stimulate classroom discussion 
 Please consider this important new edition for your course. Your students will gain an engaging text, that according to a review by the Journal of Health, Politics, Policy, and Law of the prior edition, "goes a long way toward helping readers understand how the health care system has worked in the past, how it is changing, and how it might work under different scenarios in the future."

Understanding Health Policy

Science & Math

Grumbach, Kevin

Bodenheimer, Thomas S.

Biological Sciences

McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange

An engaging and clinically applicable work on the principles and structure of the U.S. healthcare system A Doody's Core Title for 2011! "Eminently readable...Anyone wanting to gain insight into the forces that shaping health policy and the future of health care will appreciate this book."--Critical Care Nurse Magazine Understanding Health Policy is the best-written, most informative book available on the subject--and it's the #1 choice for healthcare students and professionals alike. The authors carefully weave key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples into chapters that make important health policy issues both interesting and understandable. Fully updated to reflect current issues in the ever-changing world of healthcare, the newest edition addresses all the topics that affect you most, from the structure and organization of the industry to issues regarding government and private insurance, to access to healthcare. Everything you need to understand how the healthcare system works - and your role in it: <ul>
<li> Clinical vignettes in every chapter illustrate key points </li>
<li> Detailed treatment of both U.S. and international issues </li>
<li> A complete chapter of review questions </li>
<li> NEW Expanded coverage of healthcare workers other than physicians </li>
<li> NEW Closer scrutiny of the pharmaceutical industry </li>
<li> NEW Brand-new chapter on the medical education system</li>
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Understanding Health Policy, Fifth Edition (LANGE Clinical Medicine)

Medical Books

Bodenheimer, Thomas

Administration & Medicine Economics

McGraw-Hill Medical

Bronze Medal Winner of a 2009 National Health Information Award 
Stop your pelvic pain . . . naturally! If you suffer from an agonizing and emotionally stressful pelvic floor disorder, including pelvic pain, irritable bowel syndrome, endometriosis, prostatitis, incontinence, or discomfort during sex, urination, or bowel movements, it's time to alleviate your symptoms and start healing--without drugs or surgery. Natural cures, in the form of exercise, nutrition, massage, and self-care therapy, focus on the underlying cause of your pain, heal your condition, and stop your pain forever. The life-changing plan in this book gets to the root of your disorder with: <ul>
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Heal Pelvic Pain: The Proven Stretching, Strengthening, and Nutrition Program for Relieving Pain, Incontinence,& I.B.S, and Other Symptoms Without Surgery

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Stein, Amy

Exercise & Fitness

McGraw-Hill.

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age

The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare’s #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare’s ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization – until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital. Yet once clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, it dawned on them that something was deeply wrong. Why were doctors no longer making eye contact with their patients? How could one of America’s leading hospitals give a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic, despite a state-of-the-art computerized prescribing system? How could a recruiting ad for physicians tout the absence of an electronic medical record as a major selling point? Logically enough, we’ve pinned the problems on clunky software, flawed implementations, absurd regulations, and bad karma. It was all of those things, but it was also something far more complicated. And far more interesting . . . Written with a rare combination of compelling stories and hard-hitting analysis by one of the nation’s most thoughtful physicians, The Digital Doctor examines healthcare at the dawn of its computer age. It tackles the hard questions, from how technology is changing care at the bedside to whether government intervention has been useful or destructive. And it does so with clarity, insight, humor, and compassion. Ultimately, it is a hopeful story. "We need to recognize that computers in healthcare don’t simply replace my doctor’s scrawl with Helvetica 12," writes the author Dr. Robert Wachter. "Instead, they transform the work, the people who do it, and their relationships with each other and with patients. . . . Sure, we should have thought of this sooner. But it’s not too late to get it right." This riveting book offers the prescription for getting it right, making it essential reading for everyone – patient and provider alike – who cares about our healthcare system.

Business & Money

Wachter, Robert

Industries

Designed for the one-semester anatomy and physiology course, Hole's Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology assumes no prior science knowledge and supports core topics with clinical applications, making difficult concepts relevant to students pursuing careers in the allied health field. The unparalleled teaching system is highly effective in providing students with a solid understanding of the important concepts in anatomy and physiology.

Hole's Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology

Shier, David N.

Butler, Jackie L.

Lewis,Ricki

Fox's effective approach builds upon content as students proceed further into the text. Human Physiology presents basic chemical and biological concepts as a foundation for students to comprehend physiological principles. Also famed for it's first-rate illustrations, Fox is positioned perfectly for today's student and classroom. Fox is also unique due to its brief review of anatomy preceding coverage of the corresponding body system.

Human Physiology w/Essential Study Partner CD-ROM

Basic Sciences

McGraw-Hill College

Completely revised and featuring a new design, Life-Span Development 8th edition is the most accurate and up to date text available. Applauded by adopters as eloquently written and intelligently presented, this text bears John Santrock’s trademark balance of accurate, current content for faculty and effective pedagogy for students. Included in this new edition are the most cutting edge research available and thoroughly integrated coverage of culture, ethnicity and gender. For students, Santrock’s student-celebrated pedagogical system has been enhanced to better help students see how the course material fits together. The new edition features extended coverage of aging material, along with thoroughly updated references and enhanced pedagogical features.

Lifespan Development With Making the Grade CD ROM

SANTROCK, JOHN W.

Santrock,John

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

The third edition of Medical Insurance: An Integrated Claims Process Approach is designed for medical insurance courses. The textbook provides medical assisting, medical insurance, and health information technology students with the knowledge and skills needed to successfully perform insurance and billing related duties. 
The chapters’ organization follows the medical billing process to enhance learning, moving from a comprehensive introductory chapter through processing RA/EOBs and handling patient collections. Every chapter has extensive illustrations, forms, and exercises to develop the required competencies as well as exercises to improve underlying essential math and communications skills. This text also provides a fundamental understanding of diagnostic and procedural coding needed to submit claims in compliance with payers’ requirements. New for this edition is a text-specific workbook which provides both review and applications of each textbook chapter.

Medical Insurance: An Integrated Claims Process Approach with Student Data Template CD

Valerius, Joanne

Bayes, Nenna

Newby, Cynthia

Seggern, Janet

Insurance

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math.

Electrocardiography for Health Care Personnel provides ECG skills training for health care students as well as health care personnel who are interested in mastering additional skills. The text includes the essential skills needed to perform an ECG, including anatomy of the heart, basic characteristics, equipment, appropriate intervention, and other technical applications, such as Holter monitoring and stress testing. Emphasis throughout the text is placed on troubleshooting.

Electrocardiography for Health Care Personnel

O'Brien, Thomas

Booth, Kathryn

DeiTos, Patricia

Allied Health Professions

Career Education

Electrocardiography for Health Care Professionals

Booth, Kathryn A.

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