Health Care -- Books & Web Sites
Books
Critical Condition: how health care in America became big business-- and bad medicine
The Baptist health care journey to excellence: creating a culture that WOWs
The corporate transformation of health care: can the public interest still be served?
Consumer-driven health care: implications for providers, payers, and policymakers
Economics of health care financing: the visible hand
Power of Clinical and Financial Metrics: Achieving Success in Your Hospital (check Euclid)
Plunkett's
Health Care Industry Almanac 
- Click on Publications tab
- in search box type: Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac
- Excellent source for trends and technologies affecting the industry, as well as statistics and organizations
- The Health Care 500 profiles the largest, most successful firms in health care and related industries in the U.S. and abroad.
Medical and Health Care Marketplace Guide
- Contains profiles of 6000+ pharmaceutical, medical product and health care service companies.
Dun & Bradstreet/Gale Group Industry Handbook
- Vol. 5: Insurance and Health & Medical Services
- Vol. 1: Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals
- Company directory, Ranking of companies, Lists consultants & associations
Web Sites
- Links to Health Economics, Medical, Pharmacy resources
- Categories include: associations, journals, consulting services, government sites and company listings
- List of selected resource links to information on health administration and related topics
- Categories include: Health care associations, Foundations and other non-profit organizations, Government and international agencies, Universities and other sites.
- Non-profit, private foundation focusing on major health care issues in the U.S. The Foundation works to provide facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community and the general public
- Health Care Costs Survey - joint survey with USA Today and Harvard School of Public Health examines how American are being affected by health costs
- Click on Summary and Chartpack for 52 page report
