Focusing on evaluation as a tool for improved decision making for health services organizations and practitioners, Veney and Kaluzny, both affiliated with the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, offer a framework for decision making that stresses the importance of evaluation in the entire managerial process of p

This is a reprint of a 1995 book that involves 6 papers delivered at a Nov. 1993 health conference in Chapel Hill, N.C. on strategic alliances, rural hospital networks and integrated delivery systems for health care.

Healthcare faces unprecedented global challenges. Rapid advances in genomics, computational sciences, and technology - as well as the new focus on value-based care and an increased trend toward healthcare commercialization - represent disruptive changes to an already-fragmented delivery system. The healthcare establishment has been slow to adapt, and now faces rising cancer-care costs and lags in outcome improvement and genomically informed interventions. Managing Disruptive Change in Healthcare codifies the US National Cancer Institute's lessons from utilizing a public-private partnership with community hospitals to navigate the change needed to increase patient access to high-quality cancer care, and enhance hospitals' capacity to conduct and support research initiatives. The treatment of complex diseases requires a delivery system capable of translating scientific advances into care that is coordinated across the full continuum; this book offers a blueprint to just such an infrastructure.