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Mintzberg, Henry.
Health services administration.
Medical policy.
Health planning.
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Managing the myths of health
care
: bridging the separations between
care
, cure, control, and community / Henry Mintzberg.
by
Mintzberg, Henry.
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2017.
Call #:
362.1068 M667m
Subjects
Health services administration.
Medical
policy.
Health planning.
ISBN:
9781626569058 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Myths of health
care
: bridging the separations between
care
, cure, control, and community
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
viii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"A BK business book."
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
This is a book about the
management
of health
care
, broadly. It is not about health
care
just in the United States, or Canada, or, for that matter, Malta. Leading
management
thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to reframing the
management
and organization of health
care
. The problem is the present form of remote-control
management
detached from the operations yet determined to control them. It reorganizes relentlessly, measures like mad, promotes a heroic form of leadership, favors competition where the need is for cooperation, and pretends that the calling of health
care
should be managed like a business. This professional form of organizing is the source of health
care
's great strength as well as its debilitating weakness. In its administration, as in its operations, it categorizes whatever it can to apply standardized practices whose results can be measured. When the categories fit, this works wonderfully well. The physician diagnoses appendicitis and operates; some administrator ticks the appropriate box and pays. But what happens when the fit fails, when patients fall outside the categories or across several categories or need to be treated as people beneath the categories or when the managers and professionals pass each other like ships in the night? Mintzberg says that we need to reorganize our heads instead of our institutions. He discusses how we can think differently about systems and strategies, sectors and scale, measurement and
management
, leadership and organization, competition and collaboration. Henry Mintzberg is a professor of
management
studies at McGill University. He is the author of the books Managing (2009) and Rebalancing Society (2015).
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