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THE BOOK: MANAGED CARE - THAT'S HOW IT WORKS
INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE IN EUROPE: EXPECTATIONS AND MARKET REALISM (IN GERMAN)
Jürg Baumberger

There is no doubt that our health care system is in bad need of reforms. Insecurity on all sides is strong and fears reach from the two-class-medicine to the loss of unrestricted work conditions for physicians. Since the introduction and application of managed care elements in European health care systems alternative forms of organization have become practicable and will substantially influence the development of our health care - not only with regard to physicians but also to patients.

The book is about:

  • Managed Care and the development of a European form of Managed Care, i.e. under conditions of a modern social welfare state
  • Experience Switzerland / Germany / Europe in general
  • The concept of managed care: basic elements and working principles
  • Success factors of managed care, requirements concerning managed care systems
  • Managed care and existing approaches to optimize health care
  • The changed roles of various actors in health care: physicians, general practitioners, specialists, hospitals, nursing staff, citizens, patients,industry, pharma, politics
  • Managing care and information
  • Current problems and questions of a further development of managed care
  • Risks and dangers connected with the implementation of managed care systems
  • The practical organization of networks

This book is dedicated to the practical ones among the professionals. It offers orientation and tries to clear up the thicket of information. As a profound authority on conditions and circumstances in Switzerland and in Germany and as founder of the first European HMO the author is a recognized expert in managed care. In a practice-oriented way he illustrates chances and risks of managed care and shows how to take advantage of the opportunities arising from the change.

290 pages., 56 figures., paperback, ISBN 3 13 128391 2
Price: DM 79.- / CHF 69.90 / öS 577.-

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