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CLINICAL GOVERNANCE ; a framework through which medical organizations are accountable for continually improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish. (Woncadic)
Capacity Building ; Organizational development including enhancement of management structures, processes and procedures, within organizations and among different organizations and sectors to meet present and future needs.(MeSH)
Case Management: provision of continuous care across different services through the integration and coordination of needs and resources around the patient. The fundamental difference with disease management is that it focuses more on individual patients and their families than on the population of patients with a certain disease.(WHO Gloss)
Concierge Medicine ; An arrangement in which a patient pays an annual fee to a physician in exchange for services over and beyond normal insurance-reimbursed services. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2009912
FAMILY PRACTICE ADMINISTRATOR, PRACTICE MANAGER an employed skilled administrator who is in charge of the administrative, economic, and personnel aspects of a general practice. In private practice he is employed by the GPs/FPs themselves and in publicly owned and run health centres he is employed by the respective authority.(Woncadic)
GROUP PRACTICE (Syn. associated practice) a medical practice in which the patient population is cared for by a number of associated/affiliated physicians. The principal responsibility for sub- groups of the population may be assigned to one or more physicians, but the group accepts the responsibility for continuity of patient care. In a legal sense, however, the individual physician usually has the ultimate responsibility for each patient. A group practice usually implies some degree of partnership. l. Single-speciality group: A group practice in which all physician members belong to the same speciality. 2. Multi-speciality group: A group practice in which the physician members belong to more than one speciality. (Woncadic)
HEALTH PLANNING ; the orderly process of defining community health problems, identifying unmet needs, and surveying the resources to meet them, establishing priority goals that are realistic and feasible, and projecting administrative action to accomplish the purpose of the proposed program.(Woncadic)
Monitoring: the continuous oversight of an activity to assist in its supervision and to see that it proceeds according to plan. Monitoring involves the specification of methods to measure activity, use of resources, and response to services against agreed criteria(WHO Gloss)
Organizational Innovation ; Introduction of changes which are new to the organization and are created by management. (MeSH)
Organizational Objectives ; The purposes, missions, and goals of an individual organization or its units, established through administrative processes. It includes an organization's long-range plans and administrative philosophy.(MeSH)
Resource planning: the estimation of resource inputs (human resources, medical devices, medical equipment, pharmaceuticals and facilities) necessary to provide expected services.(WHO Gloss)
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