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J L Balloun

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PubMed1995

The emerging need for transformational leadership in health information management.

The prospect of national healthcare reform, new clinical and information technologies, and the need to cut the cost of health care delivery are contributing factors in the restructuring of the health care system. In light of these rapid changes and great uncertainties, health information management (HIM) leadership must radically change its style. The appropriate new styles will move the HIM practitioner from the specialized medical records department to a larger, more professional role. The successful transformational leader will help HIM emerge as a central function in the new health care industries.

Hospital Administrators↗
PubMed1979

Estimation of distance and Preferred State Theory.

This paper describes the application of Preferred State Theory to provide quantitative predictions of a variety of psychological effects, including the prothetic-metathetic distinction, and the expected form of the matching functions between physical stimuli and the estimates produced by magnitude and category subjective estimation methods. The subjective distance from a midwestern university campus to each of 24 American cities was judged by 157 male and female undergraduates. It was hypothesized on the basis of the theory that subjects would process short geographical distances as a metathetic continuum and longer distances as a prothetic continuum. This hypothesis was supported for the method of category judgments but not for the method of magnitude estimation. Based on the theory, the matching functions between physical and subjective distances for short distances were expected to be more nearly linear than for long distances for both judgment methods. The data do not support this hypothesis for either method.

Adolescent↗