Month: March 2015

Author:  Gerda Koch, MA, RHIA; Technical Review by Catherine Ward, MBA, RHIA and Stephanie Donovan, MBA, RHIA Publisher: Cengage Learning – 356 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram The health care industry has become the largest contributor to the gross domestic product of the United States, with data showing that today the share is over 18 percent. By 2022, it is estimated to be 20 percent or more: over $5 trillion. And if you look at employment growth numbers in different sectors of our economy since the last recession began in 2008 up to now, you will note that...

Author: James W. Henderson Publisher: Cengage Learning – 489 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram The numbers on health care costs and spending in the United States are staggering, to say the least. The increase in actual dollars spent and the rate spending growth in the last 65 years is incredible and mind-boggling. Here are some statistics to consider, that the author James W. Henderson provides us in the first chapter: In 1950, the total spending on health care per person in the U.S. was just $82 for the whole year. Today, it is estimated that the spending for...

Author:  Jonathan Sachs; Illustrator: Drew Beam Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press – 264 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Today’s media world is a noisy arena where so many brands, causes, and messages grope to be heard or recognized, but die a premature death before they even get a chance to be heard or seen by a significant number of people, like ten to twenty million people. But there is one element in these attempts to get heard or seen that sets them apart from all others, and that is, they tell a great story. Great stories have “moved...

Editors: Stephen A. Maisto, Mark Galizio, and Gerard J. Connors Publisher: Cengage Learning Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Drug use became widespread in the 1970s, especially among younger people and the mass media focused a lot of attention on this phenomenon. Books on this subject have been published since then, and continued in the decades since then. The authors write that “awareness, interest, and concern about drug use have not abated since that time, nor has the need for a general undergraduate text to educate college students on the biological, psychological and social factors that influence drug use and...