The Lean Electronic Health Record: A Journey Toward Optimized Care

ISBN-13: 9781138626584 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 298 str.

Ronald Bercaw; Kurt A. Knoth; Susan T. Snedaker Mba Cism Cphims C.

Opis

This book is about the development, delivery, roll-out and sustainment of the electronic health records using Lean management principles. The book will cover lean thinking in the requirements planning, designing, testing go-live, and sustainability phases of an EHR new installation, or optimization.

Spis treści

Part 1: The reason for action – why should we change?; Chapter 1: Always start with the patient; Chapter 2: Take care of ourselves before we take care of others; Chapter 3: Dollars and cents; Part 2: The blank slate – Installing a brand new EHR system; Chapter 4: Requirements Gathering; Chapter 5: Design Phase; Chapter 6: Testing Phase and User Acceptance; Chapter 7: Go-Live; Chapter 8: Optimization; Part 3: Houston, we have a problem – what to do with an existing EHR system; Part 4: Lessons Learned … and learned again; Chapter 12: Do not replicate a broken current state into a new EHR; Chapter 13: Standardization is not optional; Chapter 14: Engage users and patients early and often; Appendix: Tools and Templates for use in lean EHR implementation

O autorze

Ronald Bercawis the president of Breakthrough Horizons, LTD, a management consulting company specializing in world-class improvement through the application of the Toyota Production System, more commonly known as "Lean." With over twenty years of experience in operations, his Lean management experience was gained through multiple enterprise transformations in different industries including custom packaging, power reliability electronic assembly, and test and measurement products.Educated at Purdue University, Bercaw learned the details and disciplined applications of Lean principles, habits, and tools from both the Shingijutsu Sensei and their first generation disciples. Working in both shop floor and above-the-shop-floor areas, He has vigorously strived to remove waste from businesses through the involvement and ideas of the people doing the work.Bercaw has consulting experience in the healthcare sector (U.S. and Canadian health systems including primary care, acute care, and community applications of both clinical and back shop improvement), the commercial sector (administrations, manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, and engineering), and the public sector (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force including Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) assignments, Pentagon, and Surgeon General Assignments). He is also the author of　Taking Improvement from the Assembly Line to Healthcare: The Application of Lean within the Healthcare Industry,　published by CRC Press (2012), and Lean Leadership for Healthcare: Approaches to Lean Transformation (2013) both recipients of the　Shingo Research & Professional Publication Award. 　 Kurt A. Knoth is Vice President, Performance Improvement and Patient Experience at Spectrum Health where he is responsible for all aspects of Process Improvement, Patient Experience, Patient Family Advisory Councils (PFACS) and Sustainability for Spectrum Health’s 12 Hospitals, 1,400 provider Medical Group and our health plan, Priority Health. Kurt functions as a part of the Spectrum Health executive leadership team to shape and reinforce the culture of improvement, vision, prioritize goals/objectives, and establishes the direction of process improvement system-wide to ensure the highest standards are met through the eyes of our patients and members. He is also responsible for building alignment between all organizations on the prioritization of projects which strengthen and transform our model of care.Spectrum’s vision is to be the Leader in Health by 2020. By applying the principals of the Toyota Production System to our clinical and administrative processes, we our driving world class improvement in safety, quality, cost and access. By including our customers (patients and families) in our improvement work, we are also driving world class improvements in our Patient Experience. 　 Susan Snedaker is an experienced IT professional specializing in infrastructure strategy and infrastructure services. As Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations at Tucson Medical Center, a HIMSS Stage 7 Certified and Most Wired Hospital, her team delivers high availability infrastructure technology and solutions for a complex and integrated hospital environment. Ms. Snedaker is the author of six technical books on Windows Server technologies and IT project management and business continuity/disaster recovery. Second Edition of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for IT Professionals (Elsevier, October 2013) with Chris Rima provides an updated roadmap for creating BC & DR plans for organizations of all sizes. She is also the author of the forthcoming book, Leading Healthcare IT: Managing to Succeed (CRC Press, 2016). Her areas of expertise include: IT infrastructure services, technology and operations; venture capital, investor, start up due diligence; strategic business planning; disaster recovery planning, business continuity strategies; enterprise architecture and strategic technical planning; healthcare IT including medical equipment management, systems integration, business case development/ROI, project management, technology implementation, leadership and change management.