Healthcare Process Improvement

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Lean Leadership for Healthcare: Approaches to Lean Transformation
Published:
April 23, 2013
Author(s):
Ronald G. Bercaw
Healthcare organizations that have already applied Lean thinking to their processes, with the diligence of effective management and strong leadership support, are now realizing the benefits of their efforts. And, many of those benefits surpass what was thought possible just a few years ago. To be …
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Second Victim: Error, Guilt, Trauma, and Resilience
Published:
March 26, 2013
Author(s):
Sidney Dekker
How do people cope with having "caused" a terrible accident? How do they cope when they survive and have to live with the consequences ever after? We tend to blame and forget professionals who cause incidents and accidents, but they are victims too. They are second victims whose experiences of an …
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What's Your Problem? Identifying and Solving the Five Types of Process Problems
Published:
November 14, 2012
Author(s):
Kicab Castaneda-Mendez
Typically, root cause analysis is taught by explaining a variety of tools that require users to gain considerable experience before being able to apply them correctly in the proper settings. What's Your Problem? Identifying and Solving the Five Types of Process Problems simplifies process problem …
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Developing a Poly-Chronic Care Network: An Engineered, Community-Wide Approach to Disease Management
Published:
October 29, 2012
Author(s):
Pierce Story, MPHM
Although much has been achieved in care coordination and accountable care, healthcare leaders need additional, game-changing innovations to deal with constraints in clinical resources, care capacity, and cost that have not yet been fully addressed. This need for innovation is especially great in …
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Kaizen Workshops for Lean Healthcare
Published:
August 27, 2012
Editor(s):
Thomas L. Jackson
Part of the Lean Tools for Healthcare series, this user-friendly book will help to improve your understanding of kaizen. It describes exactly what a kaizen event is and details all the phases necessary for implementing continuous improvement practices in your healthcare organization. Kaizen …
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Getting to Standard Work in Health Care: Using TWI to Create a Foundation for Quality Care
Published:
August 27, 2012
Author(s):
Patrick Graupp; Martha Purrier
Addressing the challenges involved in achieving standard work in health care, Getting to Standard Work in Health Care: Using TWI to Create a Foundation for Quality Care describes how to incorporate the most widely used Training Within Industry (TWI) method, the Job Instruction (JI) training module, …
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Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements
Published:
June 21, 2012
Author(s):
Mark Graban; Joseph E. Swartz
Healthcare Kaizen focuses on the principles and methods of daily continuous improvement, or Kaizen, for healthcare professionals and organizations. Kaizen is a Japanese word that means "change for the better," as popularized by Masaaki Imai in his 1986 book Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive …
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Process Improvement with Electronic Health Records: A Stepwise Approach to Workflow and Process Management
Published:
May 29, 2012
Author(s):
Margret Amatayakul
Although physicians and hospitals are receiving incentives to use electronic health records (EHRs), there is little emphasis on workflow and process improvement by providers or vendors. As a result, many healthcare organizations end up with incomplete product specifications and poor adoption rates. …
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Out of the Present Crisis: Rediscovering Improvement in the New Economy
Published:
May 21, 2012
Author(s):
Terence T. Burton
Providing quick and easy reference to the fundamentals of getting continuous improvement right within the complexities of the new economy, Out of the Present Crisis: Rediscovering Improvement in the New Economy explains exactly what it takes to implement Lean Six Sigma and other strategic …
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Utilizing the 3Ms of Process Improvement in Healthcare: A Roadmap to High Reliability Using Lean, Six Sigma, and Change Leadership
Published:
May 18, 2012
Author(s):
Richard Morrow
Utilizing the 3Ms of Process Improvement in Healthcare supplies step-by-step guidance on how to use the 3Ms of change leadership to improve healthcare processes. Complete with forms, templates, and healthcare case studies, it illustrates the proper application of the 3Ms. It weaves stories …
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