Accelerating health care transformation with lean and innovation : the Virginia Mason experience / Paul Plsek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plsek, Paul E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Washington (State).

Public health.

Medical care--Washington (State).

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, Florida ; London, [England] ; New York : CRC Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) was one of the first health care organizations to implement Lean and its methodologies. Other organizations have followed VMMC’s lead, but this world class organization still leads in the utilization of innovative Lean tools.Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation: The Virginia Mason Experience describes how VMMC has systematically integrated innovative structures, methods, and cultural practices into its implementation of Lean. Describing how your organization can create a strategy and build a culture of innovation and learning, it supplies concrete examples that show—not just conceptually, but through VMMC's actual experiences—how Lean and innovation can work hand-in-hand to incrementally improve and radically transform your value streams.Explaining how to use the voices and experiences of patients and their families to drive improvement and innovation in new directions, the book supplies a clear understanding of how Lean can help you achieve your goals in today’s increasingly demanding marketplace.

Contents:

Front Cover; Endorsements; Contents; Foreword; Note about This Book; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Chapter 1: Virginia Mason, Lean, and Innovation; Chapter 2: Strategy as Innovation, Strategy for Innovation; Chapter 3: Integrating Innovation and Lean in Practice; Chapter 4: Learning to Be Innovative; Chapter 5: Supportive Culture for Innovation; Chapter 6: Supportive Infrastructure for Innovation; Chapter 7: Bringing Innovation to Daily Work; Chapter 8: Using Patient Experience to Drive Innovation

Chapter 9: Looking Ahead: The Future of Innovation and Lean at the Virginia Mason Medical CenterSource Notes; Bibliography; Glossary; Back Cover

Notes:

"A Productivity Press Book."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781040082263

1040082262

9780429255533

0429255535

9781482203844

1482203847

OCLC:

903000564