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Lean Thinking for Healthcare (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781493952458)
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xA growing, aging population; the rise to epidemic proportions of various chronic diseases; competing, often overlapping medical technologies; and of course, skyrocketing costs compounded by waste and inefficiency - these are just a few of the multifarious challenges currently facing healthcare delivery. An
unexpected source of solutions is being imported from the manufacturing sector: lean thinking.
Lean Principles for Healthcare presents a conceptual framework, management principles, and practical tools for professionals tasked with designing and implementing modern, streamlined healthcare systems or overhauling faulty ones. Focusing on core components such as knowledge management, e-health, patient-centeredness, and collaborative care, chapters illustrate lean concepts in action across specialties (as diverse as nursing, urology, and emergency care) and around the globe. Extended case examples show health systems responding to consumer needs and provider realities with equal efficiency and effectiveness, and improved quality and patient outcomes. Further, contributors tackle the gamut of technological, medical, cultural, and business issues, among them:
- Initiatives of service-oriented architecture towards performance improvement
- Adapted lean thinking for emergency departments
- Lean thinking in dementia care through smart assistive technology
- Supporting preventive healthcare with persuasive services
- Value stream mapping for lean healthcare
- A technology mediated solution to reduce healthcare disparities
Geared toward both how lean ideas can be carried out and how they are being used successfully in the real world, LeanPrinciples for Healthcare not only brings expert knowledge to healthcare managers and health services researchers but to all who have an interest in superior healthcare delivery.
Author: Nilmini Wickramasinghe
ISBN-10: 1493952455
ISBN-13: 9781493952458
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 08/23/2016
Pages: 645
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.06lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.36d
By Nilmini Wickramasinghe
xNilmini Wickramasinghe PhD, MBA, who currently holds the Epworth Chair Health Information Management was appointed in Dec 2009 as a Professor to RMIT University's School of Business IT and Logistics and is also a core member of its Health Innovation and Research Institute(HIRi), RMIT University after being a professor in the US for 15 years. She researches and teaches in several areas within information systems including knowledge management, e-commerce and m-commerce, and organizational impacts of technology with particular focus on the applications of these areas to healthcare and thereby effecting superior healthcare delivery. Professor Wickramasinghe is well published with more than 300 referred scholarly articles, several books and an encyclopedia. She has collaborated with many large organizations such as NASA and GE as well as leading healthcare organizations such as the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Kaiser and NorthWestern Memorial Hospital. In addition, she regularly presents her work throughout North America, as well as in Europe and Australia.
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