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The hospital and clinic improvement handbook : using lean and the theory of constraints for better healthcare delivery / Boaz Ronen, Joseph S. Pliskin, Shimeon Pass.
Holman Biotech Commons RA965.6 .R66 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ronen, Boʻaz, author.
- Pliskin, Joseph S., 1946- author.
- Pass, Shimeon, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Hospital Administration.
- Quality Improvement.
- Health services administration.
- Health facilities--Finance.
- Health facilities.
- Lean manufacturing.
- Theory of constraints (Management).
- Medical Subjects:
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Hospital Administration.
- Quality Improvement.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 277 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- The Hospital and Clinic Improvement Handbook is a practical guide to how operations management-in particular Lean and the Theory of Constraints (TOC) can rapidly advance value and performance in any healthcare organization. Utilizing a systems approach that will be relevant for healthcare managers and executives, it unpacks and demystifies concepts such as performance measures operations, quality cost accounting, pricing, and value enchancement, all as they relate to eliminating waste and non-value-adding activities. Enriched with dozens of examples and building on the authors' experience teaching and refining these concepts for healthcare, this text is an essential guide for executives and manages across the industry. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The modern healthcare environment
- Principles of management in the dynamic healthcare environment
- The pareto rule, the focusing table, and the focusing matrix
- The seven focusing steps of the theory of constraints (TOC)
- Constraint management in a bottleneck environment
- Constraint management under a market constraint
- Focused current reality tree (fCRT)
- Resolving managerial conflicts
- The "efficiencies syndrome"
- The "evils" of long response times
- Reducing response times
- The complete kit concept
- Performance measures
- The effects of variability and uncertainty
- The evils of traditional cost-accounting
- Global decision making (GDM)
- Quality management and process control
- Creating value for healthcare organizations
- Implementation and the process of ongoing improvement (POOGI)
- Success stories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190843458
- 0190843454
- OCLC:
- 1003149066
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