The major strength of this book is its use of concrete examples that show how process redesign and the integration of enabling technologies have led to performance improvement and cost reduction in the largest healthcare system in the world and how these approaches transfer effectively to the private healthcare sector.

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Inhalt
1 The Emerging Federal Sector Healthcare Model.- 1 The Longer View: Moving Toward Population Health in the Federal Sector.- 2 The Future of U.S. Military Health Care.- 3 Federal Support for Healthcare Information Systems.- 4 Enhancing Private Biomedical Technology: The Role of Federal Programs.- 5 The Parthenon Strategy in Military Medicine.- 6 Alignment in a Large Enterprise: Department of Defense Military Health System.- 7 Reengineering the Veterans Healthcare System.- 8 Shaping Future Healthcare Professionals.- 9 Optimizing the Military Healthcare System.- 2 Applying New Models for Improvements and Cost Containment.- 10 Building the Knowledge-Enabled Organization: Beyond IT Infrastructures to IM Infostructures.- 11 Assessing and Achieving Value in Information Technology.- 12 Improving Provider Performance: An Integrated Approach and Case Study on Privileging and Credentialing.- 13 Cost Containment: A New Approach and a VA Case Study.- 14 Process-Oriented Strategic Information Management Planning.- 15 Data Quality Case Study.- 16 Resource Allocation Dilemmas in Large Federal Healthcare Systems.- 3 Enabling Technologies.- 17 Infrastructure and Architecture.- 18 The Future of GCPR: A Hybrid Approach.- 19 Force Health Protection Through Global Medical Surveillance.- 20 Global Expeditionary Medical Surveillance (GEMS) Support of Domestic Preparedness.- 21 Eliminating Disparities in Minority Health.- 22 Telehealth.- 23 E-Health: Future Implications.- Contributors.