There are countless Healthcare courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
- An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (2018)
- The Health Care Handbook: A Clear & Concise Guide to the United States Health Care System (2014)
- Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice 3rd edition (2014)
- America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System (2015)
- HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare (featuring articles by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee, MD) (2018)
- Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use (2011)
- Using the Electronic Health Record in the Healthcare Provider Practice by Eichenwald Maki, Shirley, Petterson, Bonnie [Cengage Learning,2007] [Paperback] ()
- An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers: Communication and Culture, Fourth Edition (English and Spanish Edition) (2012)
- Masterpieces in Health Care Leadership: Cases and Analysis for Best Practices by Vince Pelote (2007-04-10) (1656)
- Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach (2017)
- Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach (2014)
- Understanding Value Based Healthcare (2015)
- The Healing of America: A Health Care (2010)
- Healthcare Information Technology Exam Guide for CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician and HIT Pro Certifications 1st Edition by McCormick, Kathleen, Gugerty, Brian (2012) Paperback ()
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (2018)
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system – and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine.
The Health Care Handbook: A Clear & Concise Guide to the United States Health Care System (2014)
“An astonishingly clear ‘user’s manual’ that explains our health care system and the policies that will change it.” Pauline Chen, MD – The New York Times The 2nd edition of the best-selling practical, neutral, and readable overview of the US health care system is now available.
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice 3rd edition (2014)
Develop the skills and knowledge you need to make evidence based practice an integral part of your clinical decision making and everyday nursing practice with . Written in a friendly, conversational style, this Third Edition of the authors’ gold standard textbook covers all the information you need to use evidence based practice to improve patient outcomes.
America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System (2015)
America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry.
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare (featuring articles by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee, MD) (2018)
Is your healthcare organization spending too much time on strategy–with too little to show for it?If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles.
Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use (2011)
Ready to take your IT skills to the healthcare industry? This concise book provides a candid assessment of the US healthcare system as it ramps up its use of electronic health records (EHRs) and other forms of IT to comply with the government’s Meaningful Use requirements.
Using the Electronic Health Record in the Healthcare Provider Practice by Eichenwald Maki, Shirley, Petterson, Bonnie [Cengage Learning,2007] [Paperback] ()
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An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers: Communication and Culture, Fourth Edition (English and Spanish Edition) (2012)
Now in its fourth edition, this widely used textbook is designed for students with little or no formal background in Spanish. Using DVD videos, readings, exercises, and activities such as role play and improvisation, it introduces the grammar structures and specialized medical vocabulary and colloquial terms that nurses, doctors, dentists, and allied health professionals need to communicate effectively with the growing Spanish-speaking population.
Masterpieces in Health Care Leadership: Cases and Analysis for Best Practices by Vince Pelote (2007-04-10) (1656)
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Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach (2017)
Delivering Health Care in America, Seventh Edition is the most current and comprehensive overview of the basic structures and operations of the U.S. health system from its historical origins and resources, to its individual services, cost, and quality.
Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach (2014)
Delivering Health Care in America, Enhanced Sixth Edition Includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access, is the most current and comprehensive overview of the basic structures and operations of the U.S. health system–from its historical origins and resources, to its individual services, cost, and quality.
Understanding Value Based Healthcare (2015)
Understanding Value-Based Healthcare is a succinct, interestingly written primer on the core issues involved in maximizing the efficacy and outcomes of medical care when cost is a factor in the decision-making process. Written by internationally recognized experts on value-based healthcare, this timely book delivers practical and clinically focused guidance on one of the most debated topics in medicine and medicine administration today.
The Healing of America: A Health Care (2010)
Bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world–France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and beyond–to provide a revelatory tour of successful, affordable universal health care systems.
Healthcare Information Technology Exam Guide for CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician and HIT Pro Certifications 1st Edition by McCormick, Kathleen, Gugerty, Brian (2012) Paperback ()
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Best Healthcare Books to Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some healthcare books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Handbook of Research on Healthcare Administration and Management
Author(s): Nilmini Wickramasinghe
ID: 3366976, Publisher: IGI GLOBAL, Year: 2p15, Size: 29 Mb, Format: pdf
The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Understanding Healthcare Reform
Author(s): Lita Epstein
ID: 3397702, Publisher: DK Publishing, Year: 2025, Size: 78 Kb, Format: epub
Deep Learning for Healthcare Decision Making
Author(s): Vishal Jain, Jyotir Moy Chatterjee, Ishaani Priyadarshini, Fadi Al-Turjman
ID: 3424578, Publisher: River Publishers, Year: 2023, Size: 30 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are really best-sellers according to The Wall Street Journal, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.