The Corporatization of American Health Care
The Rise of Corporate Hegemony and the Loss of Professional Autonomy
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Beschreibung
In this book, the authors, as policy analysts, examine the overall context and dynamics of modern medicine, focusing on the changing conditions of medical practice through the lens of corporatization of medicine, physician unionization, physician strikes, and current health policy directions.
Conditions affecting the American medical profession have been dramatically altered by the continuing crises of cost increases, quality concerns, and lack of access facing our population, along with the ongoing corporatization toward bottom-line dictates. Pressures on practitioners have been intensifying with much greater scrutiny over their clinical decision-making. Topics explored among the chapters include:
- History of the Corporatization of American Medicine: The Market Paradigm Reigns
- Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Drug Store Chains, and Pharmacy Benefit Manager/Insurer Integration
- Medical Practice: From Cottage Industry toCorporate Practice
- Medical Malpractice Crisis: Oversight of the Practice of Medicine
- Big Data: Information Technology as Control over the Profession of Medicine
- Physician Employment Status: Collective Bargaining and Strikes
In this book, the authors, as policy analysts, examine the overall context and dynamics of modern medicine, focusing on the changing conditions of medical practice through the lens of corporatization of medicine, physician unionization, physician strikes, and current health policy directions.
Conditions affecting the American medical profession have been dramatically altered by the continuing crises of cost increases, quality concerns, and lack of access facing our population, along with the ongoing corporatization toward bottom-line dictates. Pressures on practitioners have been intensifying with much greater scrutiny over their clinical decision-making. Topics explored among the chapters include:
- History of the Corporatization of American Medicine: The Market Paradigm Reigns
- Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Drug Store Chains, and Pharmacy Benefit Manager/Insurer Integration
- Medical Practice: From CottageIndustry to Corporate Practice
- Medical Malpractice Crisis: Oversight of the Practice of Medicine
- Big Data: Information Technology as Control over the Profession of Medicine
- Physician Employment Status: Collective Bargaining and Strikes
Highlights current policy trends in the physician workforce, including conditions of practice that affect many more physicians than ever before, the primary one being the move towards employee status from that of independent practitioner Analyzes dynamics within the medical profession by addressing several topics, often seen in different contexts, in a way that highlights their interrelatedness in the consideration of public policy of the physician workforce Highlights physician workforce trends currently in progress that aren't yet fully understood but have a long-standing pattern in modern capitalistic societies in other professions Offers new directions for policies and actions by practitioners in a positive vein
Autor*in
J. Warren Salmon
Themen in »The Corporatization of American Health Care«
healthcare corporatization physician hegemony physician autonomy healthcare policy malpractice insurance physician collective bargaining physician striking healthcare administrative class industrial regulation physician performance and efficiency healthcare reform EHRs (electronic health records) accountable care organizations (ACOs) healthcare administration and management medical practice management