Description
In the last decades, the importance of performance management in healthcare organizations has progressively increased. Patient organizations can play a strategic role by providing peer support and education, filling service provision gaps within public healthcare. As experts of their own pathologies, organized patients can aid research and development projects and provide the policymakers with input from the patients’ perspectives. Despite these advantages, patient organizations still face criticalities including low political attention at a national and peripheral level, scarce management skills, planning, control, fundraising, and professionalism.
Managing Patients' Organizations to Improve Healthcare: Emerging Research and Opportunities delivers emerging research that raises awareness about the contribution of patient organizations in the healthcare process within regulatory authorities, public, and healthcare managers and improves patients’ managerial and healthcare professional skills for more efficient and effective processes of care. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as organizational management, patient value, and quality healthcare, this book is ideally designed for policymakers, healthcare administrators, medical practitioners, researchers, academicians, students, and industry professionals seeking current research on public policy management and healthcare management.
Reviews and Testimonials
This book is useful to its intended audience. It elaborates on a model to improve the collaborative role of the patient. It points out the benefits of focusing on the patient and their contributions (or potential contributions) to a healthcare organization. I was interested to read that moving to this model in a healthcare organization can also improve the skills and awareness of healthcare professionals. This book will inspire readers to create a more efficient and effective way of managing health care. Weighted Numerical Score: 85 - 3 Stars
– Doody's Book Reviews
Author's/Editor's Biography
Francesca Costanza
Francesca Costanza holds an international PhD in Model Based Public Planning, Policy Design and Management at the University of Palermo (Italy), a MD in Business Economics and Administration and a Msc in Healthcare Management. She was guest researcher at the universities of Bergen and Nijmegen and also conducted EU funded research at the Italian National Council of Research. She is currently lecturer of 'Corporate groups and consolidated financial statements' at LUMSA University (Palermo). Her research interests are: public management, healthcare management, value co-creation, entrepreneurship and digital entrepreneurship, sustainable tourism.