Test Bank For Healthcare Management Organization Design And Behavior 6th Edition By Lawton Burns

COMPLETION

1. “Value” for health care firms is defined as the quotient of ____________________ divided by cost.

 And Answer is: Quality

2. Health care costs rise inexorably because of rising ____________________ costs and its broad
application to new patients and patient indications.

 And Answer is: Technology

3. Due to malpractice insurance premiums, some argue that significant cost savings could be achieved
through the passage and enactment of ____________________.

 And Answer is: Tort Reform

4. The one issue that currently unites the entire value chain in health care is ____________________.
ANS: reimbursement

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.

 And Answer is: Federal

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.

 And Answer is: Electronic

7. The scientific management school (Taylor, 1911) extended the Weberian model by explicitly
emphasizing the “control” element of ____________________.

 And Answer is: Bureaucracy

8. ____________________ network structure can be analyzed in two ways: in terms of interaction
patterns and in terms of structural similarity.

 And Answer is: Social

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.
 
 And Answer is: Complex

10. The different theoretical schools suggest different strategies for changing organizations and different
____________________ that managers need to develop.

 And Answer is: Competencies