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Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals: Simple Steps to Fast, Affordable, and Flawless Healthcareby Jay Arthur
McGraw-Hill 2011; US$ 40.00
Proven strategies for applying Lean Six Sigma to the healthcare industry—and getting practical, sustainable results in as few as five days Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals explains how to use tested LSS methods and tools to achieve the goals of better, faster, and cheaper healthcare. These strategies follow the patient from the front door of the hospital or emergency room all the way through discharge—examining key aspects of patient flow and quality—and also follow the trail of billing and collections to discover major leaks in cash flow. The book emphasizes both the clinical and operational sides, so the “three demons of healthcare”—delay, defects, and deviation—can be reduced. Using Lean Six... more...
E-Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicineby Marlene Maheu; Pamela Whitten; Ace Allen
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 74.00
E-Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine is a hands-on resource that shows how communication technologies can be designed, implemented, and managed to help health care professionals expand and transform their organizations. Step by step the authors reveal how to introduce innovative communication tools to a wide range of health care settings. This indispensable book contains a wealth of information, suggestions, and advice about program development, ethical, legal and regulatory issues, and and technical options. more...
Changing the U.S. Health Care Systemby Ronald M. Andersen; Thomas H. Rice; Gerald F. Kominski
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 80.00
Researchers working in health policy from a wide range of perspectives summarize existing empirical research on their specialties and discuss research and management strategies that can be used to address current problems. Those whose chapters were carried over from the first edition (no date noted) were asked to emphasize developments since then. The 20 studies cover access, costs, quality, special populations, and directions for change. more...
Handbook for the New Health Care Managerby Donald N. Lombardi
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 78.00
It has been nearly a decade since the first edition of the Handbook for the New Health Care Manager was published. During that time, dramatic changes have taken place in the health care industry and particularly in health care management. Written as a hands-on guide for both novice and seasoned managers, the Handbook for the New Health Care Manager, Second Edition offers a wealth of practical strategies, procedures, and methods that are designed to meet the myriad challenges of today's health care marketplace. This thoroughly revised and updated edition features new information on numerous topics. more...
The Yale Management Guide for Physiciansby Stephen Rimar
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 100.00
A real-world education for the twenty-first-century physician Being a good doctor is no longer enough. The twenty-first-century physician who wants to deliver quality medical care to patients and operate a successful practice must develop expertise in a variety of business and management skills. The Yale Management Guide for Physicians identifies these critical skills and provides both the theoretical understanding and the practical training physicians need to become competent, confident managers as well as accomplished healers. From healthcare policy and health economics to healthcare marketing and negotiating, this comprehensive guide addresses all of the major issues affecting the delivery of healthcare services in the twenty-first century.... more...
Organizational Ethics in Health Careby Philip J. Boyle; Edwin R. DuBose; Stephen J. Ellingson; David E. Guinn; David B. McCurdy
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 85.00
This comprehensive and much-needed resource helps health care ethicists to meet the demand of challenges such as managed care, medical technology, and patient activism. Through a review of core principles and a rich selection of cases, practitioners and students will learn to apply ethics in the day-to-day administration of health care organizations. The authors are from the Park Ridge Center, the nationally acclaimed consulting and research firm. more...
Business Ethics in Healthcareby Leonard J. Weber
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 28.00
Healthcare ethics is not just about decisions made at the bedside. It is also about decisions made in executive offices and in boardrooms. Business Ethics in Healthcare offers perspectives that can assist healthcare managers achieve the highest ethical standards as they face their roles as healthcare providers, employers, and community service organizations. Weber suggests guidelines and criteria based on the understanding that the healthcare organization is committed to patients' rights, to careful stewardship of resources, to just working conditions for employees, and to service to the community. As Weber shows, ... more...
Consumer-Driven Health Careby Regina E. Herzlinger
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 80.00
Professor Herzlinger documents how the consumer-driven health care movement is being implemented and its impact on insurers, providers, new intermediaries, and governments. With additional contributions by health care’s leading strategists, innovators, regulators and scholars, Consumer-Driven Health Care presents a compelling vision of a health care system built to satisfy the people it serves. This comprehensive resource includes the most important thinking on the topic and compelling case studies of consumer-driven health care (CDHC) in action, here and abroad, including new consumer-driven intermediaries for information and support; types of insurance plans; focused factories for delivering health care; personalized drugs and devices;... more...
The Strategic Application of Information Technology in Health Care Organizationsby John P. Glaser
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 80.00
This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of The Strategic Application of Information Technology in Health Care Organizations offers health care executives and managers a balanced analysis of health care information systems. Written by John Glaser-a renowned expert in the field of health care information technology-this important resource shows health care professionals how to use IT to reduce costs, respond to the demands of managed care, develop a continuum of care, and manage and improve the quality of service to patients, payers, and physicians. more...
Getting to Greatby Dennis D. Pointer; James E. Orlikoff
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 64.00
Dennis D. Pointer and James E. Orlikoff, two of the most experienced and highly regarded governance consultants in the country, have written a definitive guide for health care boards that want to maximize their performance and help their organizations reach full potential. Getting to Great presents a set of easily applied principles and best practices based on a model that has been proven to strengthen health care governance. Filled with tools and techniques, this practical guide includes * A model of health care governance used by the best health care boards * Seventy-two governance principles and associated practices and tips on helping the board to use them * Checkups for assessing a board * Guidelines for implementing principle-based... more...