The Managed Health Care Dictionary
Author: Richard Rognehaugh
The Managed Health Care Dictionary, Second Edition is an essential resource for both professionals and students. With more than 1,000 terms, this dictionary covers the language of every industry sector——purchaser, provider, and payer. The new edition highlights new terminology, current definitions, and an expanded listing of acronyms and abbreviations.
Francine Sparby
This is an extensive and comprehensive managed care dictionary that is truly a single resource for a very diverse audience. Most terms used in the managed care arena of healthcare are included. The purpose is to provide a complete resource and gold standard of all managed healthcare terms updated in today's evolving industry. The managed care language that has evolved and exploded over time due to complex and changing managed care contracts appears to have no boundaries. The author accomplishes his objective of providing a complete and friendly set of definitions is in this extensive reference. According to the author, this is a single resource for a variety of audiences from non-healthcare professionals and patients to the most advanced healthcare professionals including students. I believe he writes for all of the intended audiences as defined. He writes for patients, physicians, hospital staff, integrated health system employees, trade associations, HCFA and other federal sector agencies, group practices, insurance industry officials, attorneys, the Department of Defense, corporate employers and purchasers of health care coverage, and consultants -- all of whom have not had a comprehensive collection of terms outside their arena. This dictionary offers the expanded presentation of terms and definitions from multiple perspectives of the early managed care markets to the most mature markets. What is most helpful is the referencing of the acronyms, words, and definitions in the case of multiple variations. The author also suggests seeing another term that may help readers have a better understanding of the original term but not intended to have the same meaning. This may have, inmany cases, a direct comparison within the definition to contrast one term from another. I believe, as Kongstvedt states in his recommendation, that" this book is a powerful yet affordable addition to any personal or organizational managed care library." The author's objective to provide a very extensive and complete premium "gold" reference has been met. Still, he realizes that the market is changing all the time and so encourages readers to e-mail him about their views if they are different or his are incomplete.
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Reviewer: Francine Sparby, RN, MS (University of Colorado Health Sciences Center)
Description: This is an extensive and comprehensive managed care dictionary that is truly a single resource for a very diverse audience. Most terms used in the managed care arena of healthcare are included.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a complete resource and gold standard of all managed healthcare terms updated in today's evolving industry. The managed care language that has evolved and exploded over time due to complex and changing managed care contracts appears to have no boundaries. The author accomplishes his objective of providing a complete and friendly set of definitions is in this extensive reference.
Audience: According to the author, this is a single resource for a variety of audiences from non-healthcare professionals and patients to the most advanced healthcare professionals including students. I believe he writes for all of the intended audiences as defined. He writes for patients, physicians, hospital staff, integrated health system employees, trade associations, HCFA and other federal sector agencies, group practices, insurance industry officials, attorneys, the Department of Defense, corporate employers and purchasers of health care coverage, and consultants:all of whom have not had a comprehensive collection of terms outside their arena.
Features: This dictionary offers the expanded presentation of terms and definitions from multiple perspectives of the early managed care markets to the most mature markets. What is most helpful is the referencing of the acronyms, words, and definitions in the case of multiple variations. The author also suggests seeing another term that may help readers have a better understanding of the original term but not intended to have the same meaning. This may have, in many cases, a direct comparison within the definition to contrast one term from another.
Assessment: I believe, as Kongstvedt states in his recommendation, that" this book is a powerful yet affordable addition to any personal or organizational managed care library." The author's objective to provide a very extensive and complete premium "gold" reference has been met. Still, he realizes that the market is changing all the time and so encourages readers to e-mail him about their views if they are different or his are incomplete.
Booknews
Defines terms used across the managed care industry, encompassing terms related to health maintenance, preferred provider, and physician hospital organizations, group practice physicians, hospitals, and the rising structures of physician management corporations. Terms are explained from multiple perspectives of physicians, hospitals, and insurers. Useful for patients, physicians, hospital staff, and insurance industry officials. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Rating
4 Stars! from Doody
War and the Media: Reporting Conflict 24/7
Author: Daya Thussu
'No book is more timely than this collection, which analyses brilliantly the Western media's relentless absorption into the designs of dominant, rapacious power' - John Pilger
'A most timely book, with many valuable insights' - Martin Bell O.B.E
'It has long been known that the outcome of war is deeply influenced by the battle to win 'hearts and minds'. This book provides a stimulating set of perspectives which combine the analyses of prominent academics with the experiences of leading journalists' -
Professor Tom Woodhouse, University of Bradford
'This volume represents an all-star cast of authors who have a tremendous amount of knowledge about media and world conflict. One of its strengths is that it doesn't focus entirely narrowly on media, but puts the discussion of media issues in the context of changes in the world order in military doctrine' -
Professor Daniel C. Hallin, University of California
'This book comes just in time. A coherent and wide-ranging collection of data, analyses and insights that help our understanding of the complex interaction between communication and conflict. A major intellectual contribution to critical thinking about the early 21st century' - Cees J Hamelink, Professor International Communication, University of Amsterdam
With what new tools do governments manage the news in order to prepare us for conflict?
Are the media responsible for turning conflict into infotainment?
Is reporting gender specific?
How do journalists view their role in covering distant wars?
This book critically examines the changingcontours of media coverage of war and considers the complexity of the relationship between mass media and governments in wartime.
Assessing how far the political, cultural and professional contexts of media coverage have been affected by 9/11 and its aftermath, the volume also explores media representations of the 'War on Terrorism' from regional and international perspectives, including new actors such as the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera - the pan-Arabic television network.
One key theme of the book is how new information and communication technologies are influencing the production, distribution and reception of media messages. In an age of instant global communication and round-the-clock news, powerful governments have refined their public relations machinery, particularly in the way warfare is covered on television, to market their version of events effectively to their domestic as well as international viewing public.
Transnational in its intellectual scope and in perspectives, War and the Media includes essays from internationally known academics along with contributions from media professionals working for leading broadcasters such as BBC World and CNN.
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