Healthcare Management

In today's healthcare economy, with reduced reimbursement and closer scrutiny of quality patient care, Lean principles are becoming invaluable in healthcare improvement initiatives. This dual-faceted book explains Lean terminology as used in healthcare and defines healthcare terms and acronyms that ..

Most of the literature on healthcare operations management is focused on importing principles and methods from manufacturing. The evidence of success is scattered and nowhere near what has been achieved in other industries. This book develops the idea that the logic of production, and production sys..

Demystifying the contracting process, the second edition of this unique work is an essential how to book for those venders involved with the delivery of managed care services. Easy to read and concise this edition provides an updated look at this rapidly evolving area. It offers an in-depth look at ..

This accessible guidebook provides Medical Services Professionals (MSPs), and those about to enter the field, with a series of building blocks to navigate career progression. Illustrating valuable lessons with real-world stories it includes systematic assessment tools, planning techniques, and strat..

The Patient Centered Value System is a three-part approach to co-designing improvements in healthcare delivery—collaborating with patients, families, and frontline providers to design the ideal state of care after listening to their wants and needs. Central to the Patient Centered Value System is se..

The volume also includes a chronology of major laws and events in public health policy along with an extensive bibliography...

This work demonstrates the value of a multi-method approach to public policy analysis, arguing that descriptive historical studies, quantitative historical studies and cross-sectional quantitative studies are essentially compatible...

Many companies conduct Lean training and projects, but few have tapped the wealth of ideas in the minds of their staff like Baylor Scott & White Health. This book documents the path Steve Hoeft and Robert Pryor created at Baylor Scott & White Health and shares what worked as well as what didn’t—illu..

Written specifically for students, policy makers and industry professionals, this work provides readers with a detailed examination of the main issues faced by all nursing homes, including trends in healthcare expenditures, government legislation and opportunities for growth...

Written specifically for students, policy makers and industry professionals, this work provides readers with a detailed examination of the main issues faced by all nursing homes, including trends in healthcare expenditures, government legislation and opportunities for growth...

This book explains why the fundamental structures of 20th century American healthcare failed to keep pace with American industry in terms of quality and cost and how this has led to the introduction of industrial mass production concepts and techniques in American healthcare. After building a histor..

This book highlights success stories and challenges to implementing health IT standards. The narrative of each chapter demonstrates how standards further interoperable health data exchange, especially in the service of advancing tools to monitor population health...