{"title":"Strategic planning: health plan perspective.","authors":"P S Mills","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The managed care industry is one of the most dynamic industries in the health care business. The development of new products, formation of alliances, changes in legislation and other types of changes are regular occurrences. This kind of dynamic environment makes it more important than ever to use strategic planning to guide management decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":79602,"journal":{"name":"Group practice journal","volume":"39 4","pages":"33-8, 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20979022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is managed care manageable?","authors":"J M Harris","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Managed care means a system of providing health care that includes: the selective association of providers in a community, the requirement that patients use these providers if they are to receive insurance coverage, and the active intervention by an outside agent in the doctor-patient relationship to control the health care delivery process.</p>","PeriodicalId":79602,"journal":{"name":"Group practice journal","volume":"39 4","pages":"13-4, 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20977404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Counterpoint. There are additional lessons to be learned.","authors":"G C Halvorson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79602,"journal":{"name":"Group practice journal","volume":"39 4","pages":"19, 26, 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20978463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R Bamberg, K D Blayney, J R Powell, S Makely, J Keenon
{"title":"Multiskilled health practitioners. Applications to group practice.","authors":"R Bamberg, K D Blayney, J R Powell, S Makely, J Keenon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multiskilled health practitioners (MSHPs) may be used to reduce costs and increase the availability of services for group practices. There are a variety of possible competency combinations for MSHPs, many of which are unique to the needs of specific health care facilities. Examples of MSHPs as well as employer and employee perceptions of multiskilled needs relevant to health care delivery and applications to the group practice setting are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":79602,"journal":{"name":"Group practice journal","volume":"39 4","pages":"73-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21007171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ambulatory quality assurance in the academic medical center.","authors":"B H Warren","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79602,"journal":{"name":"Group practice journal","volume":"39 4","pages":"54-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20979024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minnesota's fifteen-year romance. Managed care: lessons learned and survival approaches for hospitals and physicians.","authors":"R L Reece, D H Coombes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For the last 15 years, Minnesota has lived with managed care. The Minnesota story is important because it is a singularly unique example of the natural history of managed care in the United States, from the indemnity response to HMOs to PPOs to \"open-ended\" HMOs to comprehensive managed care.</p>","PeriodicalId":79602,"journal":{"name":"Group practice journal","volume":"39 4","pages":"18, 20-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20977407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategic planning: provider perspective.","authors":"J M Bensky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The premise of this article is that there is both a process that can be tailored to specific situations and outcomes that can be formatted to guide any managed care business. However, if neither are put together under the guise of strategic management, the managed care business (as we know it) will become both \"futile\" and \"fatal\" for many. It is understood that the managed care perspective for the provider can be much different than for the buyer/payor. In fact, the process for planning these outcomes (strategic management) remains the same. What changes is the perspective! This article presents a framework for that perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":79602,"journal":{"name":"Group practice journal","volume":"39 4","pages":"40-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20977410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Searching Medline. Finding needles in the medical haystack.","authors":"S Conway, J Messerle","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79602,"journal":{"name":"Group practice journal","volume":"39 3","pages":"26-8, 30, 32-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20979013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personnel problems in nursing. A theory on grapevine communication.","authors":"C G Tulli","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79602,"journal":{"name":"Group practice journal","volume":"39 3","pages":"67-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20976462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}