CHAPTER 1: The Management Challenge of Delivering Value in Health Care: Global
and U.S. Perspectives
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. What is one issue that health care organizations must address in order to create and deliver value?
a.
To create appropriate barriers to health care for equity
b.
To improve access to health care
c.
To increase cost acceleration
d.
To decrease the overall quality of care
2. Health care concerns shared by the U.S., China and India include concerns over ____.
a.
the consolidated financial mechanism
b.
lack of spending at the local level
c.
the low number of specialists
d.
lifestyle issues and behaviors
3. The Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (PHQID) was launched to determine if
economic incentives are effective at improving ____.
a.
the cost of inpatient care
c.
the cost of outpatient care
b.
the quality of inpatient care
d.
the quality of outpatient care
4. Investor-owned facilities comprise about ____ percent of the hospital sector.
a.
15–20
c.
55–60
b.
30–35
d.
75–80
5. Organizations within the health care industry have increasingly consolidated into ____ over the past
two decades with the stated objective of being more efficient, but may not operate as such.
a.
community care centers
c.
systems
b.
corporations
d.
foundations
6. The Human Relations School ascertains that in order to improve productivity, management must ____.
a.
implement the top-down control of work
b.
minimize the input of workers
c.
offer monetary incentives
d.
understand the informal organization of workers
7. The decision-making school focused on ____.
a.
physicians
c.
top executives
b.
middle managers
d.
blue collar workers
8. One school of modern strategic management encompasses an emphasis on ____.
a.
industry net-worth
b.
top-down decision making
c.
industry structure and competitive forces
d.
deliberate corporate rationality
9. ____ (INDs) can fill the structural hole between independent physician groups who can jointly develop
and implement care management practices.
a.
Integrated delivery networks
c.
Interdependent development networks
b.
Independent doctor networks
d.
Independent decision networks
10. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) developed a ____ model of the determinants of health
outcomes.
a.
“Head Start”
c.
“Heart Run”
b.
“Heart Start”
d.
“Health Run”
COMPLETION
1. “Value” for health care firms is defined as the quotient of ____________________ divided by cost.
2. Health care costs rise inexorably because of rising ____________________ costs and its broad
application to new patients and patient indications.
3. Due to malpractice insurance premiums, some argue that significant cost savings could be achieved
through the passage and enactment of ____________________.
4. The one issue that currently unites the entire value chain in health care is ____________________.
5. One of several reasons the health care system is slow to change is that the industry is heavily regulated
at both the state and ____________________ levels by myriad agencies and professional associations.
6. In 2009, President Obama’s stimulus package included funding for the diffusion of
____________________ medical records across physician offices to begin to address problems of data
capture.
7. The scientific management school (Taylor, 1911) extended the Weberian model by explicitly
emphasizing the “control” element of ____________________.
8. ____________________ network structure can be analyzed in two ways: in terms of interaction
patterns and in terms of structural similarity.
9. The ____________________ adaptive systems approaches are composed of multiple, diverse,
interconnected elements; and are adaptive in that they have the capability to change and learn from
their experience.
10. The different theoretical schools suggest different strategies for changing organizations and different
____________________ that managers need to develop.
MATCHING
Match each item with a statement below:
a.
human relations school
b.
complex adaptive system perspectives
c.
classical administration school
d.
The Health Systems Integration Study
e.
World Health Organization (WHO)
f.
decision-making school
g.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ)
h.
Taylorism
i.
scientific management perspective
j.
population ecology
1. Focused on structuring the tasks of individual workers
2. Focused heavily on the external environment
3. Focused on top executives
4. Focused on motivating workers
5. Conducted a series of workshops to assess the competitive and efficiency benefits of horizontal and
vertical forms of consolidation
6. Highlights the importance of social networks
7. Suggests that the economic integration of hospitals and physicians forms part of the bedrock for
improving clinical integration
8. Developed a generic framework for the overall structure of any country’s health care system
9. Suggests that hospitals more vigorously pursue efforts at clinical integration
10. Emphasizes the importance of unobtrusive controls to reduce discretion and shape the premises of
decisions made by managers