Healthcare Management

Fully updated, this new edition provides a comprehensive examination of the ways that health policy has been shaped by the political, socioeconomic, and ideological environment of the United States. The roles played by public and private, institutional and individual actors in designing the healthca..

Designed for easy reference by people with busy schedules, this concise manual provides hospital board members and executives with practical guidance on how to become actively engaged in the transformation of their organization. It focuses on how the healthcare industry as a whole is transforming an..

This study of the problems in America's health care system addresses three questions that have developed since the 1960s: why are care costs in America higher than elsewhere; how can costs be reduced without loss of quality; and what is the state of research, prevention and public information?..

This book follows a regional hospital's journey through the creation of long-term strategic goals and Toyota Style strategy deployment...

This book addresses decreasing revenues, increasing costs, and growing consumer expectations in today’s health care market. Offering practical experience and applied operating vision, the authors integrate Lean managerial applications and regulatory perspectives with real-world case studies, models,..

_x000D_ This book provides a step-by-step breakdown of the reasoning process for clinical work and clinical care. It examines both the general and medical ways of thinking, reasoning, argumentation, fact finding, and using evidence. It explores the principles of formal logic as applied to clinical p..

This book provides practical information for individuals who are involved in pre-hospital emergency care—from EMS practitioners to organizational leaders and research scientists. Relevant theories of human factors, including systems engineering principles, teamwork, training, and interfaced design a..

_x005F_x000D_ Advances in health information technology (health IT) have the potential to improve the quality of healthcare, to increase the availability of health information for treatment, and to implement safeguards that cannot be applied easily or cost-effectively to paper-based health records. ..

Without a governance structure, IT at many hospitals and healthcare systems is a haphazard endeavor that typically results in late, over-budget projects and, ultimately, disparate systems. IT Governance in Hospitals and Health Systems offers a practical "how to" in creating an information technology..

IT Governance in Hospitals and Health Systems..

The change from traditional ways of producing and managing healthcare services to a just-in-time approach requires a new understanding about what adds value for the patient or customer, and what does not. Just-in-Time for Healthcare is intended to share powerful knowledge that will help you particip..

Offers an understanding of Kaizen. This book describes what a Kaizen event is and explains the phases to learn and implement continuous improvement practices by a group of individuals to a targeted area within a specified time period. It also outlines how to prepare a presentation and circulate and ..