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About this product: The Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide XL is a collection of Lean tool examples and definitions from healthcare professionals and Lean sensei. It provides easy-to-use and easy-to-understand tools, methods, and concepts based on the world-class Toyota Motor Company. These practices are commonly referred to as Lean. The Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide XL is designed for use as a convenient and quick reference as you learn and implement the Lean tools as they apply to those challenging situations in healthcare. You can put your finger on any tool within a matter of seconds! Find the right tool for the right Lean initiative by using either the Table of Contents or the Lean Healthcare Tool Usage Matrix. A Table of Contents offers an alphabetical list of tools, techniques, and supporting information. The Lean Healthcare Tool Usage Matrix organizes the Lean tools and concepts relative to three important broad Lean philosophies. The philosophies are: Stabilize - It is critical that excess movement of work and variation of process be removed first. It is difficult to apply Lean when variation exists. Standardize - Once an area or a process has been stabilized, formal standards via work rules, charts, and visual controls must be used to further eliminate variation. Simplify - As an organization stabilizes and standardizes processes, it must level the work loads among staff to ensure effective and efficient service is provided to the patient or other healthcare provider. As you continue with the implementation of Lean initiatives throughout this pocket guide, assess, treat, diagnosis, and prevent will be the overriding themes. The following topics are covered: 5S, Continuous Flow, Cycle Time, Document Tagging, Error Proofing, Goals and Outcomes, Goal Card, Healthcare Case for Lean, Interruptions and Random Arrivals, Just-In-Time,Kaizen Events ,Kanbans for Supplies, Leveling, Measurement Techniques, Paper File System, Physical Layout, Pitch, Predictable Outcome, Problem Solving, Pull Systems, Reporting and Communications, Resistance to Change, Runners, Six Sigma, Standard Work, Takt Time, Value Stream Mapping, Visual Controls, Waste, and Work Load Balancing. There are over a dozen case studies demonstrating the use of various Lean tools throughout the guide.
America spends more than any other developed nation on healthcare—$2.1 trillion in 2007 alone. But 47 million Americans remain uninsured, and of those Americans who are insured, many suffer from poor health. In his ground-breaking proposal, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel offers up a plan to comprehensively restructure the delivery and quality of our healthcare. By eliminating employer-healthcare and establishing an independent program to evaluate healthcare plans and insurance companies, he offers a no-nonsense guide to how government can institute private insurance options that will allow each of us a choice of doctor and plan.
With the rate of healthcare costs rapidly outpacing our gross domestic product, we can no longer afford to maintain our fragmented delivery of care, or entertain reforms that seek to patch, rather than cure, a fractured system. Accessible, straightforward, and revolutionary in its approach, Healthcare, Guaranteed is an inarguable guide to lasting healthcare reform.
About this product: What would real healthcare reform look like? And how can everyday Americans trump big money and put healthcare back on track? Howard Dean speaks out.
"The success of healthcare reform legislation rises and falls on whether the American public is allowed to opt into a universally available public healthcare program, like Medicare, or not. If Congress issues a bill that gives Americans a public option, then there will be real healthcare reform. If not, we could be back fighting about it for another 20 years before anybody tries again."--Howard DeanAmericans have pondered how to reform healthcare since the days of Harry Truman. But, for most Americans, little has changed—except that healthcare costs have soared, health insurance companies have grown richer, and, today, even those Americans who pay dearly for health insurance frequently find that their policies don’t adequately cover them when they need their coverage most.Something has got to give. In his bold, new book, Howard Dean-the physician and former governor widely credited for reviving the Democratic Party after the 2004 elections-tells Americans what needs to be done to successfully reform healthcare. One key, he writes, is to offer Americans the option to participate in a public healthcare program, much like Medicare. "America has had 'socialized' medicine since 1964," says Dean. "It’s called Medicare; it covers every American over 65, and the majority of them are happy with the program. The rest of America deserves a similar option."In this straight-talking guide to rising above today's healthcare crisis, Dean spells out:
What Obama's healthcare plan is all about
How other countries handle healthcare
Which special interests are standing in the way of progress and why
How healthcare reform will help American businesses prosper
Why Americans need choice--between private or public health coverage
Millions of Americans lack health insurance; millions more pay for coverage that doesn't protect them from serious illness; and the status quo leaves Americans at the mercy of corporate interests. In this persuasive argument from a passionate political strategist, Americans learn how to take back the healthcare reins.
About this product: As an educator, you know how important it is to equip tomorrow’s nurses, physician assistants, and physical therapists with the tools they need to make sound clinical choices—and to ensure that those choices are based on solid clinical evidence.
This user-friendly guide demystifies the often-confusing topic of research, and helps your students use the most current research tools to hone their diagnostic and assessment skills, refine their therapeutic choices, and improve outcomes for their patients.
Guide your students to a clearer view of evidence-based nursing practice… • Clear, accessible content helps students locate the most clinically relevant evidence from current studies, assess the value of that evidence, and teach the basics of evidence-based practice to others. • Step-by-step "how to" approach helps students ask the right questions and critically appraise evidence, while explaining the principles that guide study funding and the generation of sound evidence. • Practical examples let your students see evidence-based decision-making at work in healthcare practice and education. • The latest information dissemination methods help students develop the skills needed to communicate key evidence to colleagues, the media, and health policy makers both locally and globally. • A free CD-ROM with 40 evidence reviews spanning five clinical specialty areas shows students what works and why—and provides ample opportunities for self-paced study and review. • Motivational quotes throughout the text provide insight and inspiration. • Valuable CE credits are available to users answering a series of incisive questions on the CD-ROM.
About this product: Robert Lawton Burns focuses on the key role of the 'producers' as the main source of innovation in this wide-ranging analysis of business trends in the manufacturing branch of the health care industry. Written by industry academics and executives, the book provides a detailed overview of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, genomics/proteomics, medical device and information technology sectors. Most importantly, it describes the growing convergence between these sectors and the need for executives in one sector to increasingly draw upon trends in the others.
About this product: Strategic planning remains an important and frequently used management tool. A sound strategic plan helps hospitals and systems cope with the variety of contingencies that arise in the dynamic healthcare environment.
Healthcare Strategic Planning provides you with practical guidance for planning to address near-term pressures as well as achieving long-term goals. Descriptions, examples, and guidelines will lead you step-by-step through a proven strategic planning process.
Strategic planning in the healthcare environment has evolved significantly since the first edition of this book was published. This edition reinvigorates the discussion with many new ideas and additional information.
This edition includes new or expanded information about: The leadership role of the CEO in strategic planning The facilitator’s role in strategic planning The data needs for creating an environmental assessment Developing mission, vision, strategy, and values statements Defining the critical strategic issues The transition from planning to implementation Communicating and rolling out the plan’s findings and recommendations Conducting an annual strategic plan update Establishing strategic planning as an ongoing management process Encouraging more farsightedness, creativity, and responsiveness to change
About this product: Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success, Third Edition, presents the techniques and practices behind effectively managing people the healthcare industry s most important asset. It provides the concepts and practical tools necessary for meeting the unique challenge of managing healthcare employees. Key Features: This edition includes: An expanded chapter on health and safety in the workplace, highlighting disaster preparedness and management A new chapter on globalization and the mobile workforce A new chapter focusing on employee benefits and benefit design An expanded chapter on training and career development A new section containing complex cases Chapters include cases, discussion questions, and exercises Covers fundamental topics as well as timely issues
About this product: Like its predecessors, this textbook teaches the reader the fundamental concepts of healthcare finance, including both financial management and accounting. The fourth edition features: New or expanded coverage of: Municipal bond pools, Cost of capital for not-for-profit and small businesses, Modified internal rate of return, Supply chain management , Health savings accounts, Current information on reimbursement, along with updated real-world examples, Easy-to-grasp spreadsheet illustrations of the calculations throughout the book Learning aids, including a glossary; self-test questions; and end-of-chapter key concepts, questions, and problems
About this product: This book is the definitive resource on managing all aspects of a healthcare delivery organization-from attracting patients to improving the quality of care to managing the physical plant. This new edition includes extensively updated chapters on information systems, performance measurement and quality improvement, physician organization design, clinical support services, and nursing. Not strictly hospital-based, the book emphasizes the importance of the continuum of care and includes a new chapter on prevention and non-acute services. This practical guide includesnumerous graphs, charts, and figures. The first edition of this book won the prestigious American College of Healthcare Executives Hamilton Book Award.
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