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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Quality of Care & Outcomes > Healthcare Outcomes Management: Strategies for Planning and Evaluation Healthcare Outcomes Management: Strategies for Planning and Evaluation Dale J. Block, MD, CPE Hardcover: 265 pages ISBN 076373389X 9780763733896 Jones & Bartlett March 2006 List Price $64.95   Healthcare Outcomes Management: Strategies for Planning and Evaluation explores the critical assessment of healthcare outcomes management and planning using the biopsychosocial approach of healthcare delivery as the framework for discussion. This book focuses on the processes of healthcare evaluation which seek to analyze healthcare interventions available to healthcare consumers in terms of four principle dimensions: effectiveness, efficiency, humanity, and equity. This guide and reference book enables the reader to develop a thorough understanding of the biopsychosocial model of healthcare delivery and its relevance to the systematic evaluation of healthcare interventions. Additional topics have also been included in the book to increase the reader’s appreciation for the applied medical sciences and their applications to the delivery of healthcare services at the point of care. This book is ideal for practitioners, managers, administrators and students in graduate courses in Health Care Outcomes Management. Careful attention is given to the included principles of: epidemiology, healthcare economics, medical ethics, population medicine, medical informatics, and environmental health Contents fully cover these subjects: Introduction to Healthcare Outcomes Management and Planning Quality Improvement in Health Care -  Donabedian’s Principles of Quality Improvement Health Care Delivery in the 21st Century – A Report from the Institute of Medicine Systems Approach to Healthcare Outcomes Management and Planning The Biomedical Point of View The Biopsychosocial Point of View Applied Healthcare Outcomes Management- A Primer on Epidemiology Healthcare Evaluation Design Measuring Patient Satisfaction Measuring Cost-Effectiveness Measuring Equity Population - based Medicine in Healthcare Outcomes Management and Planning Environmental Health and Outcomes Management  and Planning Dale J. Block, MD, CPE, has been a licensed, practicing physician for 17 years. Board certified in Family Practice and Medical Management, Dr. Block has achieved success in private practice, academia, corporate medicine, and in the health insurance industry. As the President of Block Medical Consulting, PC, Dr. Block provides expert medical consultation in a number of health care related areas to empower employees, employers, providers, payers, and other health care professionals to succeed in their ability to navigate through the dynamic world of health care delivery today and in the future. Dr. Block is currently practicing clinical medicine with Greentree Medical Associates, a multidisciplinary Primary Care medical practice affiliated with the West Penn Allegheny Health System. He has a full-time Family Practice and serves as the lead administrative physician for his group. He is also one of three physicians that represent 160 physicians on the Board of Directors for Allegheny Medical Practice Network, a primary care specialty network of West Penn Allegheny Health System. He also chairs the medical informatics subcommittee responsible for the implementation of an electronic medical record for all outpatient medical practices in the health system. As Adjunct Assistant Professor in Duquesne University’s Department of Health Systems Management, Dr. Block currently teaches undergraduate and graduate students in Health Management Systems. He has the taught the following courses during his tenure on the faculty: Quality Assurance/ Performance Improvement, Medical Informatics, Outcomes Management, Practice Management, and Clinical Processes. His research interests include preventive health care delivery, demand management, and disability management. Dr Block, his wife Ellen and his 3 sons are residents of Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania. 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