Books : The Health Care Value Chain: Producers, Purchasers, and Providers
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by: Lawton R. Burns, Wharton School Colleagues
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.433621
EAN: 9780787960216
ISBN: 0787960217
Label: Jossey-Bass
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: April 04, 2002
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Sales Rank: 302011
Studio: Jossey-Bass
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Written by Lawton R. Burns and a panel of expert contributors, from the prestigious Wharton School, The Health Care Value Chain analyzes the key developments and future trends in the United States' health care supply chain. Based on a groundbreaking research initiative underwritten by the industry/university consortium— the Center for Health Management Research— this important book offers an in-depth examination of how the health care supply chain helps create value and competitive advantage.
The Health Care Value Chain offers a thorough examination of the trading relationships among the manufacturers of health care products, the distributors, the group purchasing organizations, and the hospital customers and end users of those products. And the authors show how health care professionals and manufacturers can work together to form beneficial strategic alliances.
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Rating:  - The Health Care Value Chain: Producers, Purchasers, and Providers
Seemed a bit out of date. Easy to read.
Rating:  - How to Create Win-Win-Win Partnerships in Health Care
Burns and several of his Wharton School colleagues collaborated on this book as well as a subsequently published book, The Business of Healthcare Innovation, which I also highly recommend. In the later work's Introduction when explaining the value chain perspective, Burns observes that it "analyzes the entire sequence from raw materials (input) market to final customer (output) market. The sequence is labeled a `value chain' because each link in the chain adds value to its inputs. Each link ... Read More
Rating:  - Comprehensive Analysis
The author can be forgiven for writing a book that reads a little more like a formal academic paper, given his illustrious credentials. However, it is a surprisingly comfortable read given the complexity of the industry (if you could call it one industry) and the material covered. His analysis is as comprehensive as it is thought provoking. He does an excellent job of portraying the myriad of complex relationships between various evermore technologically sophisticated players within the health value ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Industry Overview
For anyone working in the manufacturing or distribution industry within pharmaceutical, diagnostic or medical device companies, this book offers an excellent oversight. Its very helpful for anyone doing business analyst work in a technology department who is new to the industry, but wants to come up to speed rapidly. I recommend it for everyone in my department.
Its rare that a good overview of an industry value chain is available and so accessible to help someone understand how an industry ... Read More
Rating: - Limited Readership, Unlimited Ideas.
This is an ace book that will unfortunately only appeal to those wanting to bring all areas of professional health care into a commercial but patient focused new paradigm.
My firm has created a business operating system (all the non clinical stuff) for dentists in Australia - we do everything from the tools to assist them to credibly advise of pharmacy level home care products, to FactSheets on complex services for better and higher levels of compliance to treatment plans, and to achieve all those ... Read More
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