Managed Care and Modernization: A Practitioner's Guide

Offering a handbook for healthcare managers and practitioners, this book aims to give practical guidance on applying managed care techniques as part of the modernization of health services. This book seeks to contextualize managed care, reviewing contemporary policy and practice, and exploring the major challenges facing health services.

Medical Books

Cochrane, David

Lewis, Rita

Larsen, Robert

Colin-Thome, David

Aliotta, Sherry

Conroy, Margaret

Administration & Medicine Economics

Open Univ Pr

Clinicians, consultants, administrators, and others associated with the healthcare industry offer practical guidance on applying managed care techniques to further the British National Health Service's modernization agenda, which they support. They discuss such aspects as an American practitioner's perspective on managed care, the Service's modernization agenda, evidence-based medicine in practice, utilization management in primary and community care, the case management of at- risk older people, mental health, benchmarking in healthcare performance management, and modernizing the healthcare workforce. Distributed by Taylor &amp; Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Sam's Teach Yourself Mac OS 8.5 in 24 Hours

Computers & Technology

Lee, Lisa

Software

Sams.

Sams Teach Yourself iMac in 10 Minutes is a tutorial-based book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 10 minute lessons. You will easily learn how to use the updated Installer and the new Finder, effectively browse the World Wide Web and set up Personal Web Serving, customize the appearance of your desktop, optimize the iMac's performance, use Quicktime and Digital Audio (MIDI), share data with others and networking, work with AppleScript, and troubleshoot the iMac.

Sams Teach Yourself iMac in 10 Minutes

Operating Systems

Twenty-four one-hour lessons highlighting the updated features of the Mac operating system cover installation, security, multi-user environments, custom desktops, and multimedia features

Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS 9 in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours)

Denny, Chris

Mac OS in a Nutshell is a comprehensive, compact reference that systematically reveals what serious users of Mac OS will find interesting and useful. It includes the essential details of the operating system, utility programs, and configuration settings, all captured in a consistent reference format.O'Reilly's "In a Nutshell" series revolutionized computer book publishing with their common-sense approach, depth of detail, and focus on practical information that's of real use. This style is perfect for both intuitive and deep Macintosh users. If it's true that "you can learn the Mac in two hours," it is also true that this operating system has hidden depths. Mac OS in a Nutshell plumbs those depths for readers who want to know the Mac OS and its integrated system of hardware and software inside and out. Up-to-date with information on the iMac and System9, Mac OS in a Nutshell opens the world of Apple computing to a new audience.It contains:
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Mac OS in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

Fishman, Bill

O'Reilly Media

This guide for beginning and intermediate PageMaker users covers the myriad of new features available in Version 5.0 (Mac and Windows), as well as how to put these features to use. The disk includes Aldus Addition files that automate tedious tasks such as creating a Drop Cap or creating running headers and footers in long documents.

The Essential Pagemaker 5.0

Arts & Photography

Rose, Carla

Graphic Design

Alpha Communications

An introductory guide to the Macintosh employs full color illustrations to aid in explaining how to accomplish common Mac tasks, from selecting and moving objects to emptying the trash. Original.

Show Me the Mac: A Visual Guide to the Basics

Alpha Books

The Grey Days and the Gold: A Collection of Poems

This collection of poems is a testament to the healing power of words, and the way they connect us and enable communication. An everyday account of one woman's life, of the events that shaped her and her love of family and the sea. As a therapist Rita Lewis also shares glimpses of the worlds her clients share in their sessions as they journey towards their goals and recovery.

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

New Generation Publishing

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Managed Care and Modernization: A Practitioner's Guide

Managed Care and Modernization: A Practitioner's Guide

Sam's Teach Yourself Mac OS 8.5 in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself iMac in 10 Minutes

Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS 9 in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours)

Mac OS in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

The Essential Pagemaker 5.0

Show Me the Mac: A Visual Guide to the Basics

The Grey Days and the Gold: A Collection of Poems