The Juran Prescription surveys the breadth of knowledge and skills and identifies the practical steps needed if clinicians are to build quality programs that are tailored to their individual organizations. Based on the highly effective management techniques of renowned Dr. Joseph Juran, this book outlines management strategies and techniques that transform health care organizations. The author examines the principle at the heart of Juran's teachings - total quality management - as reflected in such impressive management innovations as outcomes measurement, guidelines for practice,...
The Juran Prescription surveys the breadth of knowledge and skills and identifies the practical steps needed if clinicians are to build quality progra...
New Rules presents a comprehensive review of the evolution of the health care regulatory process and provides guidelines and recommendations for converting regulation from a meaningless waste of resources into a system that truly can help practitioners provide better care. New Rules is written for health care regulators, health care executives, scholars of public health, health care administrators, public administrators, and all those interested in the modern quality movement.
New Rules presents a comprehensive review of the evolution of the health care regulatory process and provides guidelines and recommendations for conve...
A study of a major initiative that is changing the course of medical education--the Community Partnerships, sponsored by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Rather than promote a single solution, Community Partnerships bridge the gap that exists between the culture of communities and the culture of academe by creating viable linking organizations to connect the two. This book also examines the role public policy plays in contributing to the current systems of health professions' education and how public policy can support change.
A New Way to Serve the Community
A study of a major initiative that is changing the course of medical education--the Community Partnershi...
American College of Healthcare Executives 2000 James A. Hamilton book of the year award
Written by Dennis Pointer and James Orlikoff, two of the most experienced and highly regarded governance consultants in the country, Board Work presents a practical model focusing on those factors that most affect board performance. Rich with prescriptive information, practical ideas, assessment tools, and examples, Pointer and Orlikoff provide the expert coaching boards need to do their best work and add value to their organizations.
Based on the authors' forty years of combined...
American College of Healthcare Executives 2000 James A. Hamilton book of the year award
Written by Dennis Pointer and James Orlikoff, two of...
Many health care leaders believe that defining and measuring physician work efforts and linking those efforts to practical and measurable clinical outcomes-physician profiling-will not only improve patient satisfaction and increase the quality of care, it will revolutionize the health care industry. Physician Profiling brings together twenty-one of the nation's most prominent physician researchers and executive medical group administrators, giving health care leaders and physician practice administrators the tools they need to evaluate and implement a physician profiling system, unlocking...
Many health care leaders believe that defining and measuring physician work efforts and linking those efforts to practical and measurable clinical out...
What should be government's role in a market-oriented health care system?
What's the appropriate amount of regulation?
Who should regulate-states, federal government, or market forces?
What role do the courts play in this regulation?
Are there existing models that might guide leaders in designing an effective regulatory structure?
Welcome to the great managed care debate. In Regulating Managed Care, twenty-six of the nation's leading health policy experts give health care administrators, clinicians, and policy...
What should be government's role in a market-oriented health care system?
In Transforming Healthcare Organizations, the authors assert that only leaders who are willing to pursue innovation and creativity can effect a transformation--and they describe the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for success. This important study presents healthcare executives with practical, step-by-step guidance on recognizing the need for change, developing a vision for the future based on working models of success, and gaining the support of others in realizing this vision.
The Effects of Transformation
In Transforming Healthcare Organizations, the authors assert that only leaders who are willing to pursue in...
Brilliant and timely, thoughtful and practical. Regradless of the final shape of health care reform in the U.S., the patient-focused idea can and must be implemented. Bravo --Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence and author of Liberation Management
This in-depth book offers advice on how health care operations can shift from hierarchical organization structures to patient-focused approaches. Uses a wealth of examples to illustrate the challenges faced by organizations that have undertaken this type of restructuring.
A Patient-Focused Paradigm
Brilliant and timely, thoughtful and practical. Regradless of the final shape of health care reform in the U.S...
