The administration and management in the health care environment is becoming increasingly complicated with the rapid changes that are happening in the U.S. and the world! Once stable healthcare systems now face massive changes including reorganization and consolidations. Reimbursement for services is modified by managed care contracts and governmental regulations like never before. Decreasing length of stay, decentralizing services while integrating new ones, and forming alliances with other healthcare providers are just a few of the current challenges for health care executives.
The following resources are geared toward those individuals involved in the management and administration of a health care system.
The webmaster of Webster's Telephone Triage Nursing website
A professional membership society for healthcare executives
The official organization for professionals who focus on the important issues where law and medicine converge
The College's members are physician executives with management or administrative responsibilities in hospitals, group practices, managed care, government, universities, the military, and industry
"Advancing Health Care Through Information Technology"
AMSO presents a forum for the healthcare professional and consumers of healthcare to learn and expound about the everchanging managed healthcare industry
Health care, Adminstration, Law related publications
Auburn's Health Administration Program, also known as the HA Program, or simply "HA," combines courses from a number of traditional academic fields to link the concerns of administration and health care. Include's Spindler's Public Health Finance course syllabus online.
This group represents nearly 600 hospitals, health systems, physician groups, home health agencies, hospice programs, long-term care organizations, ambulatory surgical facilities and other providers regarding critical health care legislation and regulations, through a management agreement
Founded in Milwaukee in 1920, the Association continues to collectively influence the direction of health care in Wisconsin
The Centre provides a focus for high quality, interdisciplinary research in health information management
A nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and middle-income people. It is supported primarily by foundation grants
Sponsored by the Connecticut Hospital Organization - a project that is ultimately intended to provide an infrastructure for the growing needs of the healthcare community of connectivity and data sharing
Provides information for Community-based health information partnerships such as CHIN (Community Health Information Networks), and CHMIS (Community Health Management Information Systems) and RHIN (Regional Health Information Networks). Also interested in quality measurement projects, health information studies, outcomes projects and patient satisfaction studies.
Essays that provide several perspectives on how to build community capacities and responsible citizenship in health institutions and behavior, as well as how to put health reform on more solid civic foundations. Case studies are drawn from community health innovations, state reforms based on the Health Decisions model of community dialogue on values, Healthy Communities, participatory innovations in managed care and nursing homes, and education for civic professional roles in health care
A Project Supported by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. CONQUEST 1.0 is a COmputerized Needs-Oriented QUality Measurement Evaluation SysTem. It is a prototype system for collecting and evaluating clinical performance measures
Relevant information for making, evaluating, and improving health care policy.
Archive of messages about downsizing, along with subscription information.
Award winning site with timely information and leading ideas about national policy and politics. Has a health policy section.
The European Healthcare Management Association (EHMA) is a membership organisation committed to improving healthcare in Europe by raising standards of managerial performance in the health sector
Established in 1927, is a statewide organization representing all types of hospitals and with a focus on specific objectives impacting hospitals and their patients
An excellent set of pointers to a variety of aging-related resources sites
HandsNet is a national, nonprofit organization that promotes information sharing, cross-sector collaboration and advocacy among individuals and organizations working on a broad range of public interest issues.
A health care information content company that develops and markets clinical and financial decision support systems used by hospitals, integrated delivery systems, managed care organizations, employers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers
An index of health administration related resources on the Web
(HANYS) serves as the key advocate for over 400 voluntary and public hospitals, nursing facilities, home care agencies, hospice and adult day care programs, health systems, and other health care facilities throughout New York State
A personal membership organization for more than 34,000 financial management professionals employed by integrated delivery systems, long-term and ambulatory care facilities, medical practice groups, hospitals, managed care organizations, public accounting and consulting firms, insurance companies, government agencies and other organizations
The agency which administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs. HCFA helps pay the medical bills for more than 72 million beneficiaries
HCIR and HITM are published quarterly (subscription), but monthly updates of the HCIR are publicly available and are posted here
A publication developed by Health Care Cost Consulting to bring you news from the health care industry that has a direct impact on health care costs
Collection of links related to the economics of health care
A journal intended to be a vehicle for the exploration and discussion of health policy issues and is aimed in particular at enhancing communications between health policy researchers, legislators, decision-makers, and other professionals concerned with implementing health policy
Published bimonthly for the Hospital Research and Educational Trust by Health Administration Press in cooperation with the Association for Health Services Research. It is the official journal of the Association for Health Services Research
Part of MGH Neurology's Home Page, an index of helpful Boston area health admin links
A strategic alliance of experienced health care managers who serve Health Care Organizations in the development of the components of Integrated Delivery Systems.
A growing list of Hospitals on the Web
A medical economics company with plenty of up to date information and links
List service for managers and administrators interested in the activities of of JCAHO on an ongoing basis.
A great index from the Administrative Medicine Home Page at the Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
A partnership between Ontario's 219 hospitals, through the OHA, and the MoH with a mandate to recommend and facilitate the implementation of hospital reform within the broader context of the health care reform agenda in Ontario Canada
Information on this journal that has been publishing in health policy research from 1976 to 1996
One of a series of large link listings from Martindale, this one on public health
A web site for health and medical insights and expert market intelligence along with Web reviews
Long and detailed index to all aspects of health care reform
A 70 year old journal of public health and health care policy
The online version of the Magazine, a beautiful site that is information rich
From the CDC, a report that is downloadable and in PDF format - need Adobe Acrobat to read
A health information organization dedicated to improving health care through the collection, analysis, dissemination, and use of health care data
This UK organisation working for NHS management bodies brings together NHS health authorities, Scottish health boards, Northern Ireland health and social services boards and NHS trusts into one representative organisation covering the separate and collective views of both purchasers and providers
NCHS is the Federal Government's principal vital and health statistics agency -- and part of the CDC
A service of AHCA's State Center for Health Statistics
A forum for interaction and information exchange among its members.
Begun as a one-room Laboratory of Hygiene in 1887, the National Institutes of Health today is one of the world's foremost biomedical research centers, and the Federal focal point for biomedical research in the U.S.
Includes PREMEDLine, Grateful Med, the Visible Human Project, NLM publications, Research programs. and Grants/Aquisitions
Information on this and related publications with ordering information available
The first state-level hospital
association in the United States. Now with over 180 member hospitals.
This Ontario based organization has a mission to build partnerships among researchers and decision makers, enhance health care research in Ontario, ensure its relevance to health care problems, improve the accessibility of research evidence to decision makers and encourage the application of research evidence to health care decisions for the benefit of the public
An state office that promotes "universal access to an adequate level of high quality health care at an affordable cost"
A single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health care program in the US
Links to web sites on Public Health, Biostatistics, and Clinical Research
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based in Princeton, NJ, is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care. It became a national institution in 1972 and concentrates its grantmaking in four areas: assuring access to basic health services;
improving the way services are organized and provided for people with chronic health conditions; reducing the harm caused by substance abuse; and helping the nation address the problem of rising health care costs
Focused on social, economic and political issues in health in Southern Africa. The electronic journal where you give feedback to the authors
DOE's Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) Technical Information Services (TIS). TIS is a collection of information services that provides safety and health professionals with reliable, accurate and current information to assist them in performing their jobs
An extensive and searchable list of U.S. government resources of all typesMedical Records, Risk Management, QA/QM
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