Back To The Drawing Board: New Directions In Health Plans’ Care Management Strategies

2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 210-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Felt-Lisk ◽  
Glen P. Mays
Author(s):  
Pinar Altiok Gürel ◽  
Talat Firlar ◽  
Nursen Firlar

The acceleration of globalization caused transformations in the area of communication, as in many other areas, and innovations brought about by information technologies have diversified operation methods and management, as well as organizational understandings of business companies within the global competition environment. Evolving towards post-modern structuring, companies have gravitated to customer-oriented business management strategies, where companies see their customers and market environment from different angles while conducting their advertising activities. The mass marketing sense, which was effective for a long period of time, was gradually alienated, and particularly with the intense utilization of social media and digital environments, the understanding of personal marketing (which more quickly connects products with their target audiences) was adopted in order to influence customers, who now have a multitude of choices. This chapter focuses on introducing the new organizational structures of advertising agencies in the social media age.


2017 ◽  
pp. 1779-1793
Author(s):  
Pinar Altiok Gürel ◽  
Talat Firlar ◽  
Nursen Firlar

The acceleration of globalization caused transformations in the area of communication, as in many other areas, and innovations brought about by information technologies have diversified operation methods and management, as well as organizational understandings of business companies within the global competition environment. Evolving towards post-modern structuring, companies have gravitated to customer-oriented business management strategies, where companies see their customers and market environment from different angles while conducting their advertising activities. The mass marketing sense, which was effective for a long period of time, was gradually alienated, and particularly with the intense utilization of social media and digital environments, the understanding of personal marketing (which more quickly connects products with their target audiences) was adopted in order to influence customers, who now have a multitude of choices. This chapter focuses on introducing the new organizational structures of advertising agencies in the social media age.


1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liduïn E.M. Souren ◽  
Emile H. Franssen ◽  
Barry Reisberg

As a result of the neuropathologic process of Alzheimer's disease (AD), significant changes occur in neuromotor function (e.g., paratonia and compulsive grasping). These changes become manifest in the moderately severe stage of AD, when patients begin to require ongoing assistance with activities of daily life (ADL), and they are prominent in the severe stage of AD, when patients are continuously dependent on a caregiver. Patients in these stages often display behavioral disturbances during care activities. These disturbing behaviors result not only from cognitive impairment, but also from a patient's physical inability to cooperate with the caregiver. When care management strategies take into account the characteristic physical restrictions resulting from the neuromotor changes that accompany advanced AD, the caregiving process may be significantly facilitated.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Beck da Silva Etges ◽  
Luciane N Cruz ◽  
Rosane Schlatter ◽  
Jeruza Neyeloff ◽  
Ricardo B Carodso ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Adopting value-based health care management strategies requires monitoring the real costs and care delivered to patients. This study aimed to evaluate the cost-saving opportunities of interventional coronary procedures (ICPs) by assessing patients’ processes of care and costs in five public academic hospitals.Methods: Data from 90 patients submitted to elective ICP were evaluated in five hospitals in Brazil. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) was used to assess real-world costs and the time spent over the care pathway. Descriptive cost analyses were followed by a labour cost-saving estimate potentially achieved by the redesign of the ICP pathway, considering the benchmark of the patient care cycle identified in the sample of hospitals studied.Results: The mean cost per patient of interventional angioplasty was $1,677 (SD $881). The length of the procedure phase per patient was similar among the hospitals, while the post- procedure phase presented the highest variation in length. However, it was possible to demonstrate that the highest direct cost saving opportunities are concentrated in the procedure phase in which labour and non-labour resources are more consumed. Physician involvement redesign can account for a 51% decrease in procedure cost.Conclusion: This study demonstrated how the level of detailing on cost information provided by the TDABC can contribute to driving health care management to value by identifying cost-saving opportunities in health service delivery.


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