Health Care Administration

Imagine being physically denied access to your office, business, or livelihood. Imagine being refused entry to a grocery store or being told who you can or cannot sit with at a restaurant. Imagine being barred from a hospital room when you or your family member needs critical care. Unthinkable? Today, these scenarios and worse are happening in “democracies” all over the world, and could be our collective future—orchestrated by AI, Big Tech, and state-sponsored apps—all in the name of “protecting” public health with vaccine passports.

Protecting Care by Sage Ellison serves as a vital resource for those dedicated to ensuring equitable and inclusive healthcare for all, particularly in the realm of gender-affirming care. The book addresses the challenges faced by community members in accessing healthcare that respects and affirms their identities. By navigating the complex landscape of protections and policies, listeners can empower themselves and their communities.

In Demanding Compassion, Dr. William Scarlett pulls back the curtain on modern medicine—not the glossy version shown in marketing campaigns, but the reality lived by doctors, nurses, and patients every day. With candid honesty and deep conviction, Scarlett challenges both his colleagues and his patients to remember why medicine exists in the first place: to help people heal. This book is both a call to action and a blueprint for change. For burned-out physicians questioning why they ever chose this path, Scarlett offers a reminder of their purpose and the hope that change is possible.

Using a compelling novel format, the audiobook demonstrates how to apply lean thinking in a healthcare setting. It illustrates the situations, characters, and plant politics you will most likely face as you progress through your lean healthcare journey. As the story unfolds, you will discover the way of thinking and behavioral changes required to implement proven Toyota Production System (TPS) methods, tools, and thinking in healthcare.

Entrepreneurs are born to disrupt—but disrupting established industries like healthcare is no small feat. Drawing from her twenty-plus years of experience as a founder and business leader, Kara Trott reveals her secret sauce to succeeding in a field that’s notoriously resistant to innovation. A former lawyer turned accidental entrepreneur, Kara founded Quantum Health in 1999, spearheading healthcare navigation—and a new industry in the process.

Pinter and Martin's Why it Matters series offer succinct, balanced and evidence-based introductions to the topics that affect family life in the 21st century. The Politics of Breastfeeding, first published in 1988, described how big business and vested interests influence the intimate relationship between mothers and their babies to the detriment of all, rich or poor, in the West or in the developing world. In Why the Politics of Breastfeeding Matter, the central ideas of the politics of breastfeeding are distilled into a concise form, making it the perfect introduction to understanding the complex forces that govern what many think of as a simple choice to breastfeed or not.

In The Great Healthcare Disruption, Dr. Marschall Runge—cardiologist, researcher, and CEO of Michigan Medicine—offers a gripping, insider’s look at the forces rapidly reshaping American healthcare. From artificial intelligence and retail medicine to revolutionary gene therapies and next-generation obesity drugs, this is your essential guide to the most significant transformation in medical care since the discovery of antibiotics.

Do you feel frustrated with the current healthcare system? Do you find yourself lost within its complexities, unsure of how to make the best decisions for yourself or your loved ones? Perhaps you’re a clinician or a bedside care provider, feeling burnt out and trapped in a cycle of exhaustion. Are you weary of the endless cycle of prescribing medications that fix one problem, but create so many new ones?

In "Nanoelectronics: Pioneering the Future of Healthcare," listeners will embark on a journey through the transformative potential of nanoelectronics in healthcare. From biosensors capable of detecting diseases at the molecular level to wearable devices that monitor health in real-time, this book illuminates the groundbreaking innovations that are reshaping the landscape of medicine.

The American health insurance system is anything but simple to maneuver. Health plan enrollees become entangled in an intricate and opaque maze of confusion, often resulting in frustration, regret, and deep debt. Health plan and health care technology veteran Marc S. Ryan seeks to demystify the US health care system, helping Americans become wiser consumers and allowing them to navigate the maze with more confidence and certainty. Using his decades of experience, Marc outlines a bipartisan blueprint to transform America’s unique system without upending the employer-based system.

In a world where healthcare systems are on the brink of a seismic shift, The Visionary Edge is not just a book—it's a leadership playbook for tomorrow. Written by nationally recognized healthcare strategist Sumit Sharma, this groundbreaking work equips forward-thinking leaders with the models, mindsets, and foresight to lead boldly into the future. Blending compelling storytelling with enterprise-level strategy, Sharma takes listeners inside the healthcare systems of 2045, where AI partners with clinicians, decentralized care redefines delivery, and visionary leadership determines success.

In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries and meal programs. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. What are we doing wrong? In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries, Katie Martin argues that if handing out more and more food was the answer, we would have solved the problem of hunger decades ago. Martin instead presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed.

Dignity in Care provides listeners with what they need to know about the humanity and tone of care, and how they can engage in these facets of care in a thoughtful and meaningful way that will satisfy their patients' needs to be seen and appreciated as "whole persons."

The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive, evidence-based guide for healthcare leaders and professionals seeking to navigate the complex landscape of transformation within the healthcare industry. Drawing on influential theories from psychologists such as Bandura, Kahneman, and Frankl, the book offers a multifaceted approach to change management, leadership development, and decision-making.

The American health-care system is failing us. It is a frustratingly complex, opaque, and unaffordable system that results in suboptimal care and a deterioration of the welfare of the majority of American families. The experience of the past few decades and the recent ravaging pandemic has shown us that doing more of the same is not going to deliver us from this dilemma. But there is hope. There is a way to create a more accessible, consumer-friendly, safer, and affordable system of care for all of us.

The slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale?

Aspirational healthcare offers a proven, transformative, and sustainable approach that’s easy for CEOs to implement and monitor through a dashboard. This isn't just another Band-Aid solution—it's modeled after the internationally acclaimed Nuka System of Care in Alaska. For over 20 years, Nuka has set the gold standard for patient satisfaction and reduced costs, achieving what seemed impossible: a healthcare system that genuinely works for its customers at half the cost.

Embark on a journey into the intricate world of medical billing and coding with "Medical Billing Essentials: A Beginner's Guide." This comprehensive book provides a step-by-step approach to mastering the fundamentals of healthcare finance, catering to beginners and seasoned professionals alike. Whether you're a student taking your first steps into the healthcare industry or a seasoned healthcare professional looking to broaden your skill set, this guide offers a solid foundation in medical billing and coding principles.

The US healthcare system desperately needs radical reform to rein in costs, reduce harm, expand access, and become customer centric...Imagine what real change in our healthcare system would mean for you, the economy, and our future. Real change requires disruptive innovation. As citizens, employers, entrepreneurs, healthcare workers, elected officials, and patients, it is time for us to drive the change. Authors Aaron Fausz and Terry Howell explain how we can disrupt, dismantle, and rebuild.

This introduction to the philosophy of medicine surveys the landscape of western philosophy as it pertains to healthcare in an accessible way. Written by a doctor for doctors and other health professionals, framing the "toolbox" of philosophy within the community of medicine, it encourages examination of the implicit assumptions made in the construction of medical knowledge and practice.