| Abstract: |
Despite differences in health care systems, particularly resources, there are areas of professional knowledge where health care managers in the US and eastern European countries like Ukraine can profitably exchange ideas. This paper describes a number of potential opportunities. For example, US managers could gain knowledge about managing under scarcity, coping with unresolved problems, teamwork approaches to medical care, formalized management systems, medical school management training for physicians and improved knowledge about medicine. Ukrainian managers could benefit from better delegation, more extensive graduate management education, improvement of health care management as a profession, use of business models and tools, improved adaptability, greater autonomy and improved use of management science. Establishment of an institute for comparative health care management and university centers for comparative health care management would provide a useful forum for dialogue and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |