Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Hospital Administration & Care

Since adapting the principles of the Toyota Production System to health care in 2002, Virginia Mason Health System has made enormous leaps forward in quality, safety, patient experience of care, and affordability. It has achieved world-class levels of patient satisfaction and has been honored as one of the safest hospitals in the country.

A Leadership Journey in Health Care: Virginia Mason's Story supplies an inside look at process improvement from the world leader in applying Lean methods to health care. It presents key lessons learned as well as the best practices...

Rethinking Return on Investment: The Challenge of Accountable Meaningful Use offers a timely exploration of the value achieved through the Meaningful Use of electronic health records and other components of the HITECH legislation. The authors provide a look back at how ROI of health IT has typically been measured and explore how Meaningful Use regulations are driving healthcare organizations to adopt a value-based purchasing model--thus challenging readers to rethink how they define the ROI of health IT.
The authors examine Meaningful Use within a three-stage Value...

Implementing Information Security in Healthcare: Building a Security Program offers a critical and comprehensive look at healthcare security concerns in an era of powerful computer technology, increased mobility, and complex regulations designed to protect personal information. Featuring perspectives from more than two dozen security experts, the book explores the tools and policies healthcare organizations need to build an effective and compliant security program.
Topics include information security frameworks, risk analysis, senior management oversight and...

This book explores the benefits of digital patient engagement, from the perspectives of physicians, providers, and others in the healthcare system, and discusses what is working well in this new, digitally-empowered collaborative environment. Chapters present the changing landscape of patient engagement, starting with the impact of new payment models and Meaningful Use requirements, and the effects of patient engagement on patient safety, quality and outcomes, effective communications, and self-service transactions. The book explores social media and mobile as tools, presents guidance on...

Daskompakte Lehrbuchgibt einen umfassenden Uberblick uber die informatischen Grundlagen zur Signal-, Bild- und Datenverarbeitung sowie zu vernetzten Systemen. Es richtet sich an Arzte, Studenten der Informatik und Medizininformatik, DRG-Beauftragte, Medizintechniker, Geratebeauftragte und Leiter von Telemedizinprojekten. Das Buch deckt das Prufungsgebiet der Zusatzbezeichnung Medizinische Informatik ab.

This book provides an organizational model of the common ground needed to improve patient care and adapt to today s healthcare environment. The relationship between a hospital CEO and a general surgeon and how they aligned, motivated and partnered with physicians to change the culture of a hospital and implement patient oriented systems is the essential element of this text. Sustainable transformation processes will also be presented for the various roles and contributions of the healthcare team. Written from a team perspective, Transforming the Patient Experience is a practical...