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Book SynopsisIn today''s healthcare economy, with reduced reimbursement and closer scrutiny of quality patient care, the concepts and terminology of Lean management are becoming invaluable to nurses, clinicians, administrators, and other healthcare staff involved in improvement. Conversely, a basic grasp of common healthcare terms is essential for process improvement specialists who aren't necessary fluent in healthcare terminology.The Lean Healthcare Dictionary: An Illustrated Guide to Using the Language of Lean Management in Healthcare is designed to bridge the gap between Lean practitioners and healthcare professionals. This comprehensive dictionary defines essential Lean and healthcare terms to help create a common language for anyone involved in Lean healthcare improvement activities.Providing quick reference to the language of Lean management in healthcare, the dictionary includes diagrams and charts that illustrate concepts and aid in understanding. Each entry in ParTable of ContentsSection I: Lean Terms for Healthcare, Section II: Healthcare Terms

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Book SynopsisThis book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System. Each book in the series focuses on a specific aspect of healthcareincluding emergency departments, medical laboratories, outpatient clinics, ancillary services, and surgical servicesthat has demonstrated significant process and quality improvements after a Lean implementation.Because ambulatory care settings play a significant role in the healthcare delivery system, it is important to understand how Lean concepts and tools can be used to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care. Leveraging Lean in Outpatient Clinics: Creating a Cost Effective, Standardized, High Quality, Patient-Focused Operation provides a functional understanding of Lean processes and quality improvement techniques in an outpatient clinic environment.This book is an ideal guide for heaTable of ContentsPreface: Outpatient Clinic Settings, Acknowledgments, Authors, Section I, Section II, Appendix: Glossary

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Book SynopsisThis book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System. Each book in the series focuses on a specific aspect of healthcare that has demonstrated significant process and quality improvements after a Lean implementation.Lean principles can help medical laboratories drive up efficiencies and quality without increasing costs or compromising quality. Leveraging Lean in Medical Laboratories: Creating a Cost Effective, Standardized, High Quality, Patient-Focused Operation provides a functional understanding of Lean laboratory processes and quality improvement techniques.This book is an ideal guide for healthcare executives, leaders, process improvement team members, and inquisitive frontline workers who want to implement and leverage Lean in medical laboratories. Supplying detailed descriptions of Lean tooTable of ContentsIntroduction to Lean. Batching vs. Lean Thinking and Flow. Lean and Change Management. Lean Foundation. Basic Lean Concepts and Tools – Assessment and Analyze. Putting It All Together. Implementing Lean in a Healthcare Environment. Executives and Lean. Roles and Responsibilities of Managers and Supervisors. What It Means to Have a Lean Culture. Leveraging Lean in the Laboratory.

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Book SynopsisThis book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System. Each book in the series focuses on a specific aspect of healthcare that has demonstrated significant process and quality improvements after a Lean implementation.Emergency departments have become notorious for long wait times and questionable quality of care. By adopting Lean manufacturing concepts, hospitals can turn the emergency department into a valuable service for the hospital and the community it serves.Leveraging Lean in the Emergency Department: Creating a Cost Effective, Standardized, High Quality, Patient-Focused Operation supplies a functional understanding of Lean emergency department processes and quality improvement techniques. It is ideal for healthcare executives, leaders, process improvement team members, and inquisitive frontTable of ContentsPreface: Leveraging Lean in the Emergency Department, Acknowledgments, Authors, SECTION I, SECTION II, Appendix, Appendix: Glossary

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Book SynopsisIn order for an organization to thrive in a competitive business environment, its strategy, people, and branding must be fully optimized. The Innovative Lean Machine: Synchronizing People, Branding, and Strategy to Win in the Marketplace explains how to use Lean principles and visual tools to maximize these core components in any business.The book demystifies theory with examples of the various visual tools any organization can rely on during the idea generation, product development, and branding processes. Filled with easy-to-follow graphics, charts, and tables, the text provides a simple, yet effective, series of visual frameworks that readers can immediately apply with little or no difficulty.Describing how to ensure your business planning reflects what is most valuable to your customers, this resource presents the insights of a creative thought process that drives innovative solutions. It considers the key aspects of Lean that canTrade ReviewTony Sgroi's new book is well organized, well written, and well worth reading. It's the only book I know that documents everything you need to do to build a successful company: brand, people, and strategy. —Al Ries, Legendary Branding Strategist, Bestselling Author, and Originator of the Concept of PositioningTony Sgroi presents the key drivers for a winning company. By following his creative frameworks for building a recognized brand, developing a strong market strategy, and selecting great people to drive innovation, consumers will beat a path to your door.—Philip Kotler, S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern UniversityThe Innovative Lean Machine describes an insightful and very practical approach to developing the front-end market / branding strategy for your firm. The most difficult challenge in optimizing the new product development process is gaining a deep and empathic understanding of your market and your customer. This highly readable book provides unique and valuable tools to accomplish this goal. An excellent addition to your Lean enterprise bookshelf.—Ron Mascitelli, PMP, Author of Mastering Lean Product DevelopmentTony Sgroi's new book hits it out of the park. His path to branding, marketing, and strategy is methodical and on target. Tony strikes at core necessities required in building a successful company. This is the 'how-to' branding and strategy manual!—Rick Constantine, Vice President of Marketing & Global Business Unit Leader, Acme United CorporationTable of ContentsAn Effective Business. Branding: Creating And Sustaining A Credible And Reputable Source. Visual Branding. Being First. Brand Focus. Effective Brand Communication. Brand Credentials. Effective People: Identify and Empower Them. The Cross-Functional Entrepreneur. Competence and Character: The Core of Trust and Leadership. Tools and Purpose. Strategy: Keep It Consistent with the Brand. Visual Strategy. A Qualitative View of Strategy. A Quantitative View of Strategy. A Study of Function and Emotion. Putting It All Together. Building Effective Teams. Aligning Business Activities.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Dr. Gabow, former CEO of Denver Health of 20 years, teams up with Philip Goodman, a 34-year veteran of Denver Health who directed the Lean System group, to share their Lean journey. The Lean Prescription: Powerful Medicine for Our Ailing Healthcare System tells the story of how Dr. Gabow led Denver Health to become the first healthcare organization to be awarded the Shingo Bronze Medallion Prize for Operational Excellence.Detailing the foundational Lean principles, the book provides readers with the benefit of the experience of an integrated healthcare system''s successful seven-year Lean journey. This book grew out Gabow's 40 years'' experience as a practicing physician, teacher, researcher, and leader of a large, urban public healthcare system.About 10 years into her 20 years as CEO of the healthcare system, she began to look at how one could actually make healthcare work right. After a year of study, she and her team concTrade Review"This is a terrific book. It is engaging and should be enormously helpful to anyone wanting to improve the efficiency and functioning of a healthcare enterprise. It clearly lays out why and how to implement Lean in healthcare settings."—Richard D. Krugman, MD, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Dean, University of Colorado School of Medicine"An inspiring book by one of the nation’s leaders in health systems change that not only chronicles one major institution’s transformation but empowers readers to follow suit."—Sara Rosenbaum, J.D., Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor, George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Health Policy"For years, discussions of the broken US healthcare system have been long on diagnosis and short on solutions. The Lean Prescription: Powerful Medicine for Our Ailing Healthcare System aims to fix that. By mixing explanation, thought exercises, and real-life examples, Gabow and Goodman provide a thoughtful and accessible introduction to the discipline of Lean and its application within healthcare systems. By grounding the book in their real-life experience, they paint a clear and realistic picture of the commitment necessary, the enthusiasm and empowerment engendered, and the exceptional results Denver Health achieved for its patients and its staff. For any leader who’s looking for a serious approach—not a silver bullet—to making a system work better for all stakeholders, this book holds a powerful message."—Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation"The Lean Prescription: Powerful Medicine for Our Ailing Healthcare System is a prescription for excellence. It vaults to the top of the management must-read list. Patty Gabow charts a way forward for every health executive working to achieve breakthrough results for every patient."—Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH, President & CEO, America’s Essential Hospitals"Dr. Gabow demonstrates in The Lean Prescription: Powerful Medicine for Our Ailing Healthcare System how a CEO can change a culture and deliver massive improvement in healthcare delivery, including over $190 million in financial benefit over seven years, through disciplined Lean leadership."—George Koenigsaecker, President of Lean Investments, LLC"Patty Gabow and Philip Goodman have succinctly captured the enormous power of Lean management as applied to healthcare. In the process they provide exercises which can deepen the reader’s grasp of concepts and tools. Notably, the accomplishments they document have been achieved in safety net institutions—a challenge and inspiration to everyone who works in such settings: even with constrained resources we can get better outcomes for our patients by systematically reducing waste and improving reliability."—Mark Smith, MD, Retired, President and CEO, California HealthCare Foundation"Dr. Gabow’s amazing process improvements at Denver Health Medical Center were the inspiration for our own journey with Lean techniques. This book can teach specific techniques to other leaders in the medical field on how to improve their delivery of healthcare, with the focus on where it should be: on patients and their care. In these pages, Dr. Gabow has offered the great gifts of her experience and wisdom. For those with the will to improve, this book can be their guide."—John Hickenlooper, Governor of Colorado"If you have any responsibility for any part of the healthcare systems in the United States, your experience and the health of your patients will be better for having read, understood, and acted on the clear steps described in this unusual book. Not a treatise, it is a guidebook to take us from the jungle of cost, waste, and confusion to the clarity of efficiency and mission."—Christine Cassel, MD, President and CEO, National Quality Forum"With Lean, Dr. Gabow applies a concept developed and honed in the private world to public services. Lean’s approach empowers workers to eliminate waste, improve quality, and reduce costs. We should embrace this thinking to improve the value of our public organizations."—Senator Michael Bennet, United States Senator from Colorado"Dr. Gabow and Phil Goodman have thoroughly captured seven years of experience in this engaging and straightforward re-telling of their highly acclaimed Lean transformation of Denver Health. All of us who know and worked closely with Patty appreciate her unparalleled attention to detail and hands-on leadership of her operations as CEO of this magnificent public hospital system. In The Lean Prescription: Powerful Medicine for Our Ailing Healthcare System that same Gabow mastery of nuances and the critical elements of transforming a large health system are factually presented, covering not just select clinical areas but the whole enterprise … as it should be done. Bravo Patty and Phil for your crisp presentation of the why, the how to, and the real results of Lean’s impact on Denver Health!"—Marc Hafer, President and CEO, Simpler Consulting"To non-initiates, Lean can seem alternately intimidating or dull. Patty Gabow has demonstrated its power in action through the results she achieved at Denver Health. Now she has written a readable guide to Lean that will be useful for managers, providers and all who are struggling to make healthcare work. This book is a great way to dive in."—Margaret O’Kane, President, National Committee for Quality Assurance"Lessons learned from implementing Lean at Denver Health are detailed in The Lean Prescription by Patricia Gabow, who served as CEO of Denver Health from 1992 to 2012, and Philip Goodman, the former director of Lean Systems Improvement at Denver Health. Gabow and Goodman provide an overview of the Lean philosophy and helpfully explain how it applies practically to a complex health care system, where processes and people are often siloed and wasteful practices often go unrecognized."—Jessica Bylander, Senior Editor, Bookmarks, Health Affairs, 34, no.3 (2015):537-538Table of ContentsWhy Worry about American Healthcare. Role of Leadership in Health System Transformation. Why Pick Lean for Healthcare Transformation. Toyota Principles and Working Concepts of Lean. Lean Tool Box. Structure for Lean Implementation. Deploying Lean. Metrics, Reporting, and Information Archiving. Outcomes and Lessons Learned.

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Book SynopsisAs developed economies enter a period of slower growth, emerging economies such as India have become prime examples of how more can be achieved with less. Bringing together experience and expertise from across the healthcare industry, this book examines innovations that can bring about real advances in the healthcare industry. Innovations in Healthcare Management: Cost-Effective and Sustainable Solutions explores recent innovations in healthcare from a global and Indian perspective. Emphasizing the importance of Lean healthcare and innovation, it presents low-cost, high-volume solutions that improve access to care. Providing concrete examples of the five levels of innovation present in healthcare, the book presents new concepts, methods, and tools for advancing processes and operational flow. It includes case studies of actual results in healthcare innovation from three continents that highlight emerging global trends in healthcare system innovation.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Global Trends in Health System Innovation. Learning from Industry: Innovating in Healthcare Operations. Lean and Innovation – ‘The Two Responsibilities’. Cultivating an innovative culture through Lean. Innovative Approaches to Build Healthcare Facilities. Hospital Planning & Design Innovation for Lean Operation.Public Health Innovations. Behaviour Changes, the last mile in Healthcare. Cost-Effective, Scalable, and Sustainable Model for Primary Healthcare. Doing Community Good is Good For Business. Process efficiency by Innovation. Stanford Operating System: Aligning Purpose with People and Performance. Managing Stakeholders and Patient Experiences to achieve better Outcomes. Leapfrog through mHealth. Innovative Excellence: Learning from Emerging and Developed Economies. Innovative Approaches of Affordable Healthcare in Emerging Economies. Supply Chain Innovations in Healthcare. Three Dimensional Healthcare "The Need of the Hour". Innovative Initiatives in Healthcare by Indian Government. Indovation: Frugal Innovation in Indian Healthcare. Emerging Healthcare Innovations.

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Book SynopsisMany companies conduct Lean training and projects, but few have tapped the wealth of ideas in the minds of their staff like Baylor Scott & White Health. This book documents the path Steve Hoeft and Robert Pryor created at Baylor Scott & White Health and shares what worked as well as what didn'tillustrating over seven years of successes and failures in detail.Providing easy-to-follow guidance for deploying Lean and TPS in healthcare, The Power of Ideas to Transform Healthcare focuses on what needs to be done and who needs to do it. It explains that the new currency for 2015 and beyond will be ideasideas brought out in projects, problem solving, and especially in Huddles. The most significant concept in this book is not huddles. Instead it's who builds the systems around them and why. Supplies the understanding required to build a Lean management system in any industry Explains how to align staff around common goals and cascade and trTrade ReviewThe joint wisdom and experience of Hoeft/Pryor makes this book both fun to read and a great resource for organization leaders and internal consultants tasked with improving processes. While the fit for healthcare is obvious, the practices they have so succinctly described will benefit any workplace.—Cindy Jimmerson, Author and Founder of Lean Healthcare West Lean healthcare has become a buzzword and as such often gets mired in the bureaucracy of ineffective programs. Steve and Bob give us deep insight into the philosophy and thinking essential to making Lean healthcare a way of putting innovative ideas to work to achieve breakthrough performance for patients, team members, and the institution.—Jeffrey K. Liker, Ph.D., Shingo Prize-Winning Author of The Toyota WayThis book is built upon rock-solid foundations, bringing the daily Lean management system to life through their stories and examples. Hoeft and Pryor colorfully demonstrate how staff ideas and a broader Lean management system greatly benefit patients, staff, physicians, and the health system. Lean is not just a set of tools or a series of projects, and this book is full of inspiration and practical advice for everybody who needs to participate actively in a Lean transformation, starting with the CEO and other senior leaders. This is a must-read.—Mark Graban, Shingo Prize-Winning Author of Lean Hospitals and Co-Author of Healthcare Kaizen... The Scott & White system, at the time this book was written, counted 2,000 implemented ideas for improvement from employees per week from their 16,000 employees, this in an environment that included recent budget and staff cuts. That number is unheard of in my experience outside of a few high volume, low variety automotive manufacturers, mainly Toyota and some of its suppliers.That level of employee engagement is for me the sine qua non of a successful Lean implementation supported by a robust Lean management system. ... Steve Hoeft is a teacher and coach with firsthand experience in Toyota’s thinking and approach. Pryor knew the direction he wanted to go: sustained high levels of employee engagement in improving S&W’s performance. Together, they developed an approach to move in that direction. Either would tell you they’re far from done. But the distance they’ve traversed and the progress they’ve made stands as a significant achievement, chronicled in the pages that follow ... This book documents the path the authors created at Scott & White ... It’s a systematic approach, and it’s working.... It entails taking leaders through a process wherein they persuade themselves of the value of sharing, with front-line staffers, their managerial discretion to define problems worth working on. When that happens, it holds the promise to improve the entire organization’s performance in ways others will find difficult to duplicate. The goal is worthy, the journey is worth making. —David Mann, Ph.D., Shingo Prize-Winning Author of Creating a Lean Culture, Third Edition The Power of Ideas to Transform Healthcare is an invaluable tool for any organization seeking to align their objectives from the system level to the front line—and that should be all organizations. In it, Hoeft and Pryor describe a practical approach to developing a culture of continuous improvement by engaging employees in problem-solving and developing a management system to support it at all levels.—Chris Van Gorder, FACHE, President and Chief Executive Officer, Scripps Health The pursuit of Lean thinking is not a top down process, it is a way of allowing everyone to do what is best for the patient in the most effective and efficient manner. Bob and Steve’s book gives great insight on how this is done in healthcare.—C. Courtland Huber, Ph.D., Past Director of the Executive M.B.A. Program at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin Table of ContentsIntroduction. Why Lean? Why Now? Philosophy. How S&W Did It—Applying TPS to Healthcare. The Huddle System (LMS)—In Detail. Tips and Techniques. Forms. Appendix: Acronyms and Terms.

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Book SynopsisGood teamwork ensures the close collaboration and coordination between professional groups and across disciplinary boundaries. This is particularly important in healthcare centres and clinics admitting complicated patient cases, but contrary to what many healthcare organisations seem to believe, effective teamwork does not happen automatically. It needs to be successfully trained and practiced. Teamwork in Medical Rehabilitation provides a guide to efficient teamwork in professional healthcare. Showcasing the practice of medical rehabilitation in Sweden, the book describes how to create, develop, nourish and organise a team. Medical rehabilitation in Sweden is a discipline filled by not only doctors and nurses, but also physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, social workers, speech therapists and dieticians. Using these multi-professional teams as clinical case studies, the book contains many practical examples from different rehabilitation care areasTable of ContentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Historical BackgroundChapter 3. Teamwork in TheoryChapter 4. Teamwork in PracticeChapter 5. Clinical TeamworkChapter 6. Team CommunicationChapter 7. Examples of Team Rehabilitation SettingsChapter 8. Concluding Discussion: advantages and disadvantages of advanced team work

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Book SynopsisThis book explains why the fundamental structures of 20th century American healthcare have failed to keep up with American industry in terms of quality and cost. It describes how this has led to the introduction of industrial mass production concepts in American healthcare, such as Lean and Six Sigma, and how the resulting industrialization breaks down the 20th century model and opens the way for a new vision of healthcare.Exploring the links between healthcare history, quality history, and the current state of healthcare, the book will help healthcare leaders and quality professionals recognize, understand, and respond to the changes currently under way in American healthcare. It provides clear guidance on the role of industrialized quality in breaking down 20th century assumptions and building the foundation for 21st century healthcare. As readers grasp the transformative effects of the macro-level changes resulting from Table of ContentsIntroduction. A Brief History of American Healthcare. Healthcare Quality History. Quality-Driven Healthcare. Industrialized Healthcare and Organizational Transitions. A Vision of 21st Century Healthcare. What Does It All Mean to You?

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a wide spectrum of readers with comprehensive but easily understandable protocols for the assessment and training of wheelchair skills. The Wheelchair Research Team at Dalhousie University and the Capital District Health Authority in Halifax (lead by the author) have focused on wheelchair safety and performance for three decades, as exemplified through the Wheelchair Skills Program. This is considered the top such program in the world. This new book is largely based on this program which has been accessed and utilized by over 75,000 people in 177 countries since 2007. Table of ContentsIntroduction to the WSTP, General Background on Motor Skills Learning, Specific Issues fo Importance for Motor Skills Learning, Lesson Plans, Skill Groups. Individual Skills, Games

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Book SynopsisWhile many health care organizations need to improve health care quality and lower costs, most lack specific strategies and tactics for implementing these changes. Baylor Scott & White Health has established and continues to develop an accountable care organization (ACO) called the Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance (BSWQA) to improve the quality of care and decrease health care costs through clinical integration.Accountable: The Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance Accountable Care Journey tells the story of the BSWQA and its clinical network and payers who are committed to delivering accountable, value-based patient care. It describes the need for ACOs in today''s health care environment and details the framework and requirements needed to establish one.The book provides readers with essential background information about accountable care, including the Triple Aim and population health management. It outlines the infrastructure and governance fTrade Review"The transformation of the U.S. health care delivery system to one based upon value and accountability is one of the compelling stories of our time. To undertake this transformation requires building a culture of accountability. And that requires leadership. This compelling book tells the story of how an already renowned institution built an organization to deliver better care for the patients it serves. Others attempting this task will find this invaluable."—Joe Cunningham, MD, Managing Director, Santé Ventures"This is the definitive primer and ‘user’s guide’ for health care executives and operating leaders who are designing, developing, or deploying an ACO. It is equally valuable for industry stakeholders as they partner and collaborate with ACOs. Invaluable insights, strategies, and tactics from an industry pioneer that will enable you to move forward effectively and efficiently."—Michael Weintraub, President & CEO, Optum Analytics"This is a very complete, yet concise story of the Baylor Scott & White Health accountable care journey. This book is a must-read for any health care system leader or physician leader who is developing or serving as a leader in an accountable care organization."—Paul B. Convery, MD, MMM, Clinical Professor of Healthcare Leadership & Management, Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas, Dallas; and Former Chief Medical Officer, Baylor Health Care System"In a time of consolidation and turmoil in health care, Couch and his colleagues provide a clear and concise game plan for bringing organizations together around real performance—improving outcomes and efficiency. This is a forward-looking, yet practical, book that touches on the full range of issues that come up in a typical day and a typical decade for emerging accountable care organizations. It is well-written, thoughtful, and credible—an important contribution."—Thomas H. Lee, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey Associates, Inc.; and Professor, Harvard Medical School"Most large health care organizations today are re-imagining the delivery of and payment for health care services. The Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance (BSWQA) has actually started the process and is demonstrating impressive preliminary results. Texas Health Care is proud that many of our physicians are affiliated members of the BSWQA."—Larry Tatum, MD, President & CEO, Texas Health Care, P.L.L.C."Accountable is nothing less than a clarion call for accelerating the transformation from provider-centric volume to patient-centric value in health care. The description of BSWQA’s journey, which includes governance, care delivery innovations, process, staffing, and payment models creates a readable and engaging ‘ACO primer’ which is timely and unique. BSWQA’s story represents a rare, honest ‘look under the hood’ of what it takes to make an ACO and its tenets of population health actually happen—and in the near term. This book should be widely read for its leadership vision, practical perspective, and operational considerations applicable to every provider and delivery system. This ‘ACO parable in real life’ has lessons for even the most established medical group or health system."—Michael Parkinson, MD, MPH, FACPM, Senior Medical Director of Health & Productivity, UPMC Health Plan"Dr. Couch and his colleagues provide a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand accountable care and population health. The story of the Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance’s journey provides an excellent model with practical examples for others to learn from. This book is a must-read for anyone whose organization is seeking to achieve the Triple Aim."—Gary Yates, MD, President, Sentara Quality Care Network; President, Healthcare Performance Improvement, LLC; and Former Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Sentara Healthcare"It is increasingly difficult in health care to navigate a course between the competing interests of providing high-quality care for our community of patients and maintaining fiscal responsibility. Consumers must be able to afford quality medical care, and health systems must be able to provide it in a fiscally prudent manner. The Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance is transforming its system and relationships with providers and setting a benchmark for other health systems to attain, including population health accountability and pay for performance. This book maps a pathway to successful implementation."—J. Lindsey Bradley, Jr., FACHE, President, Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics"Dr. Couch and his team have upheld the profound Baylor Scott and White Health tradition of passionate leadership in Patient Care, Community Service, Education, and Research through this new book outlining responsible disruptive innovation to take us to Value-Based Care. With the foundation of the Hippocratic Oath to the work of the Institute of Medicine to STEEEP (safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, patient-centered care), they chart a comprehensive, practical and personal journey for all of us in leadership, and those we serve, to replicate and scale. The Health Employer Exchange members will be enlightened and inspired to adapt it throughout our nation."—Stephanie S. McCutcheon, Innovation/Transformation Advisor, Health Employer ExchangeTable of ContentsAccountability. Why ACOs? How Can an Organization Produce Accountability? Structure and Organization: Putting an Accountable Care Organization Together. Patient Experience of Care. Population Health. Financing Accountable Care. Conclusion. Glossary. References.

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Book SynopsisBoth the demographics and lack of resources in the health and well-being industry are increasingly forcing us to find alternative solutions for individualized health and social care. In an effort to address this issue, smart technologies present enormous potential in solving this challenge. This book strives to enhance communication and collaboration between technology and health and social care sectors. The reader will receive an extensive overview of the possibilities of various technologies in care sectors (including ICT, electronics, automation, and sensor technology) written by experts from various countries. It will prove extremely useful for engineers developing well-being related systems, software, or other devices that can be used by professionals working with people with specialist needs, well-being and health service providers, educators teaching related courses, and upper level undergraduate students and graduate student studying related topics. The technology focus of tTable of ContentsSection I: Opportunities and Barriers of Smart Technology in Care. Smart eHealth and eCare Technology: What is that? Drivers and Trends in Technology Deployment in Care Services. Approaches to Smart Technology Deployment in Care. IP Strategies in eHealth and eCare Sectors. Section II: ICT -Based Platforms and Technology Examples. Introduction to ICT-Based Service Platforms and Patient Record Systems. Data Acquisition, Validation, and Processing in Smart Home Environments. Machine Vision in Smart Health and Social Care. The Possibilities and Challenges of RFID-Based Passive Wireless Components in Healthcare Applications. Acoustic-Based Technologies for Ambient Assisted Living. Section III: Case Studies and Field Trials. Information and Communication Technology Support for Stroke Care: The Relevance Dilemma. INCA Software as a Service: Sustainably Delivering Cloud-Based Integrated Care. Computerized Systems for Remote Pain Monitoring: A Case Study of Ambulatory Postoperative Patients. Simple Rehabilitation Games for Special User Groups. Home.com: Living in a Digital Environment.

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Book SynopsisJohn Glaser has been an astute observer and recognized leader in the health care industry for over thirty years. He has written a regular column for Hospitals & Health Networks in which he comments on a wide range of topics, including improving organizational performance through health information technology (HIT), changes in HIT architecture, challenges in leveraging data, and the evolution of the role of IT leadership. Glaser on Health Care IT: Perspectives from the Decade that Defined Health Care Information Technology is a collection of some of the most widely read articles that have been published in H&HN Daily, H&HN Weekly, and Most Wired Online in the past decade (20052015). The columns are dated to show their original publication dates, and the material is organized into four broad themes: HIT Applications and Analytics Challenges Improving Organizational Performance through HIT IT ManageTrade Review"This book is a collection of John’s finest and most challenging work. These writings represent over a decade of self- and industry introspection and critique. Some will explore the current challenges and potential solutions we face during these transitional years; some will dissect the current policy, exploring weaknesses and errors; but all will educate and inform in a witty and thought-provoking style. Today’s challenges, just like those of the past several decades, require shared learning and understanding. These writings represent an amazing opportunity to learn and understand from one of the best. He not only helped to start us on this journey but also blazed a path of discovery and innovation."—From the Foreword by Russ Branzell, President and CEO, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Table of ContentsHIT Applications and Analytics Challenges. Improving Organizational Performance through HIT. IT Management Challenges. HIT Industry Observations.

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Book SynopsisThis book unravels the role of Point-of-Care (POC) glucose monitoring as an essential part of diabetes management. It provides the reader with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of diabetes management, including: the need for POC glucose monitoring the glucose detection technologies (invasive, noninvasive and continuous) being used in the POC devices the analytical performance, characteristics, pros and cons of the POC devices developed to date the importance and role of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) monitoring for diabetes management the various POC devices and analyzers for the determination of HbA1c. This is the first book to provide complete up-to-date information on POC glucose detection technologies and devices for diabetic monitoring and management. It will be an important reference for healthcare professionals, biomedical engineers, researchers, economisTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Diabetes: A growing epidemic and the need for point-of-care testing. 2. Blood glucose monitoring. 3. Non-invasive glucose monitoring. 4. Continuous glucose monitoring. 5. Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) monitoring for diabetic management and therapy. 6. Diabetes management software and smart applications. 7. Performance requirements, analytical accuracy and clinical accuracy of self-monitoring of blood glucose: a clinical perspective. 8. A concluding remark. Index

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Book SynopsisGOING PUBLIC is a character-driven narrative centered on the last five years of unparalleled change in how technology startups sell shares to the public. Initial public offerings, or IPOs, are typically the first time retail investors can own a piece of the New Economy companies promising to rewire economic rules. Selling IPOs is also one of the most profitable businesses for Wall Street investment banks, who have spent the last 40 years protecting their profits. In an era when algorithms and software have made the financial markets more efficient, the pricing of IPOs still relies on human judgment.In 2016, executives at music-streaming service Spotify sought to upend the status quo. Led by a trim and understated CFO, Barry McCarthy, and a shy but brilliant founder, Daniel Ek, they took a wild idea and forged something new. GOING PUBLIC explores how they got comfortable with the risk, and how they lobbied securities watchdogs and exchange staff to rewrite the regulations. Readers will meet executives at disruptive companies like Airbnb, DoorDash, and data miner Palantir, venture capitalists, and even some bankers who seized on Spotify's labor and used it to knock Wall Street bankers off the piles of fees they'd been stacking for so long.GOING PUBLIC weaves in earlier attempts to rethink the IPO process, introducing readers to one of Silicon Valley's earliest bankers, Bill Hambrecht, whose invention for selling shares online was embraced by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they auctioned their shares in 2004. And it examines the recent boom in blank-check companies, those Wall Street insider deals that have suddenly become the hottest way to enter the public markets. GOING PUBLIC tells stories from inside the room, and more.

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Book Synopsis"Rationing Medical Care on the Basis of Age" explores this highly topical issue and presents a critical argument on the nature of the possible crisis. Its in-depth philosophical analysis of the main ethical positions adopts an interdisciplinary and international approach. This book is important reading for healthcare policy makers and shapers and healthcare managers. Academics in ethics, philosophy, economics, and all healthcare disciplines will find it useful, as will public health specialists, health economists, and social scientists with an interest in health and medicine.Trade Review"'The importance and originality of this book is that it now supplies a clearly argued ethical analysis of the complex medical, social and moral dimensions of this perceived crisis, leaving attentive readers in no doubt that the fundamental questions raised for society are indeed moral ones. The authors of this book have opened up significant new perspectives on many important issues which in practice confront politicians, managers, professionals, patients and the public today. They have done this moreover in a way that is highly accessible to a non-specialist readership. Eric Matthews and Elizabeth Russell are to be congratulated on this major achievement, and this book is to be highly commended to everyone concerned with the future of health care.' Kenneth Boyd, in his foreword"Table of ContentsPerception of crisis. The costs of aging. The moral foundations of publicly funded medical care. Ethics and the crisis. Daniels and the 'Prudent Lifespan' account. Ethics and resource allocation. Callahan and the significance of age. Critique of Callahan. Crisis of aging? Policy implications.

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Book SynopsisThis work traces and anticipates past, present and future changes in mental health services to assess the impact both of developments in care, and of the implications of new organisational change. It includes contributions and perspectives of those involved in services at all levels, including service users, to draw upon their experience to give a fuller picture of today and help sketch in tomorrow. It balances academic scrutiny with personal involvement, to reflect both national trends and local initiatives. Overall this work is in two volumes, each of which can stand alone: this Part 1 focuses on the realities of offering and receiving care at a practical and local level; it concentrates on personal experiences within mental health services as user, carer, provider and professional.The companion book Part 2 reviews policy and practice from national and international perspectives. Together these books provide essential information and views on mental health services for professionals throughout health and social care, managers, policy planners and policy shapers including those in the third sector and patient groups, academics and the media.Trade Review'Public health workers who work in this topic area will find much that is of interest - a useful overview of some current debates.'PUBLIC HEALTHTable of ContentsHonesty without discrimination. Community teams: outreach and intervention. Homelessness and disorder: the challenge of the antisocial and the societal response. Moving on from the National Service Framework for mental health: the social inclusion agenda. A GP’s view: interview with Dr Helen Pelendrides. Dual diagnosis. Advocacy: does it really work? Prejudice and progress. Clients as colleagues: part of the path to recovery? A personal account: from my life. Working with young people. Creating a small community. A space for creativity and healing: Artists in Mind and the mental health system. Enhancing the healing environment. The Retreat: an alternative view from the independent sector.

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering work addresses a key issue that confronts all industrialised nations: How do we organise healthcare services in accordance with fundamental human rights, whilst competing with scientific and technological advances, powerful commercial interests and widespread public ignorance? "The Nature of Health" presents a coherent, affordable and logical way to build a healthcare system. It argues against a health system fixated on the pursuit of longevity and suggests an alternative where the ability of an individual to function in worthwhile relationships is a better, more human goal. By reviewing the etymology, sociology and anthropology of health, this controversial guide examines the meaning of health, and proves how a community-centred healthcare system improves local economy, creates social capital and is affordable, rational, personal, and just. "This is badly needed nourishment for a medical system glutted on technology, individualism, profit and the pursuit of longevity. Read and be fed." - Christopher Koller, Health Insurance Commissioner, The State of Rhode Island, USA. "Unique. Surprising. A real eye-opener. Just about everyone who doesn't have a vested financial interest in maintaining the status quo will agree that U.S. healthcare is badly broken. [This book] is making it possible for us to refocus from how to provide healthcare to how to achieve health. Their description of health as successful functioning in community, rather than as a measure of longevity is a definition that can make a reader feel healthier as they take gradually appreciate the power of the concept. On this foundation, it is not as hard as one might think to outline a healthcare system that is equitable, affordable and achievable." - Alexander Blount EdD, Professor of Family Medicine, University of Massacusetts Medical Center.Trade Review'Compelling [...] raises important questions about the goals of health- care spending.' AGEING AND SOCIETYTable of ContentsWhat health is not: demented and contracted. The health we have. The health we buy. What we measure is not health. Medications are not health. Medicine is not health either. Science is business, not health. Hancock County. What went wrong and why? The happy victim. The human tsunami. The reductive trap. The trap is sprung. How longevity kidnapped health. Medical services and communities. The zero sum game. Three people, three aortas. What health is. A fib. What Webster thinks. Old villages, new lives. Toward a social definition of health. Health and community together. Health and fairness. Amish boy. What's next? Who gets what? How should it look? How should we pay for it? Which doctors?

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Book SynopsisThis remarkable book offers enlightening reading for everyone interested in international law, human rights, global health, public health and health promotion. Public health and health promotion professionals, including international healthcare organisations, care agencies, and international charities will find the analysis illuminating. It is also of great interest to policy makers and shapers in communities and government, political activists and all those with an interest in equality and globalisation.Table of ContentsThe UN – Its origins, problems and contradictions. Selling off the UN to neoliberalism. Privatisation of water – and the problems of sustainability. Dams and dambusters. WHO – accessory after the fact? The UN’s dalliance with nuclear power. Neoliberalism and the human right to health. Is the WHO mandate workable? Summary and recommendations.

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Book SynopsisWhy is it that in spite of all the health policy reforms, clinical practice innovations, increasing intersectoral interdependencies and new medical and information technologies, so little has changed in the way we research and evaluate health care? Don't these changes cry out for new ways of being studied and appraised? And don't our approaches to clinical practice innovation cry out for being reinvented too? Surely, we cannot continue to wheel out research and evaluation paradigms, improvement approaches and methods that were designed for 20th century problems and 20th century health care, and assume they will be able to make sense of the problems we experience and the care we provide in the 21st century? These changes necessitate a new paradigm of health service research, evaluation and improvement and this new model adopts approaches and methods that embrace complexity. The approaches and methods can account for the vicissitudes of front-line care, the activities of front-line staff and the experiences of patients and families - where care happens. Visualising Health Care Practice Improvement draws on years of video feedback research shaping an approach that enables not only a retrospective understanding but also a view into the future, of what might be possible. It presents the argument that change is not principally about adopting solutions from elsewhere but that it is conditional on people exploring whether proposed solutions suit existing habituations. It involves a process of exploration, discovery, secession and renewal. Health care managers, policy makers and shapers will find this book enlightening. It will also be empowering to all health care professionals and front-line staff.Trade Review"In my experience, healthcare is a safety-critical world (justifiably) skeptical about outside interventions to 'improve' it. Exnovations are a great answer, and this book demonstrates beautifully how improvements can be made to work from within." - Sidney Dekker, Professor, Safety Science Innovation Lab, Griffith University, Australia "This book shows how to move beyond engagement to empowerment of front-line clinicians in quality and safety improvements, expanding their skills and intelligence to a new level to create sustainable solutions for complex safety challenges." - Ian Leistikow, MD PhD, Senior Inspector, Dutch Healthcare Inspectorate, the Netherlands "Relatively recent advances in technology have accumulated like sedimentary rock on the ancient foundation of medicine to produce a complex and error-prone system. Placing the video camera in their hands, clinicians are directed to clearly view and review their daily practices in order to improve the quality of their services. Iedema and colleagues view the world of medical practice and technology with a fresh (video) eye, showing clinicians are able to heal themselves" - Associate Professor Kenneth Herrmann, MD, Neonatal-Intensive Care Specialist, Indiana University School of Medicine (Department of Paediatrics) and Women's Deaconness Hospital in Newburgh, Indiana, USTable of ContentsPreface. About the authors. List of contributors. Glossary. Healthcare practice improvement from within. The complexity of health care work. Does the complexity of care call for 'research complexity'? Exnovation: innovation from within. Improving medical handover using video methodology: two projects, two perspectives. Forms of feedback in video-reflexivity: some notes and observations on a Maastricht experiment. Improving postoperative handovers using video reflexivity: the Utrecht experience. Designing an ambulance paramedic to emergency triage staff handover protocol for New South Wales, Australia. Conclusion: improving one's own practices and relationships 'from within'. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisCulture, Context and Quality in Health Sciences Research, Education, Leadership and Patient Care (Second book in a series of five) Sustainably Improving Health Care promotes the importance of integrating improved care outcomes, system performance, and professional development so that the future of health-care advancement is creative and sustainable. It addresses the challenge of creating and nurturing a culture of continuous improvement that is able to sustain and generate creative professional work for the improvement of health care. Using real-world examples, the book succinctly reveals how the model can be practically applied from a variety of different perspectives. "This book makes the persuasive argument that well-intended efforts to redesign and reform health care will enjoy only short lives without the full commitment and engagement of the health-care worker - the product of the sustainability- and capacity-building engine of professional development." Dave Davis MD, CCFP, FCFP, in the Foreword "This book is about a model that has emerged from our own work, our observations of the work of colleagues and others, and our refl ections about the requirements for the future of the continual improvement of health care. We explore its origins, its content and manifestations, and its implications, particularly for health professional leaders interested in the ongoing improvement of health care. Form and vitality develop in the model as it engages reality - the reality of trying to create cultures of sustainable, generative approaches to the ongoing improvement of health care." From the PrefaceTable of ContentsForeword. Preface. The evolutionary beginnings of the model. Better patient, population outcome: practical approaches that health systems can adopt for measuring the health of patients and populations. Better system performance: approaches to improving care by addressing different levels of systems. Better professional development - competence, mastery, pride and joy. Teaching the triangle - the Dartmouth-Hitchcock leadership preventive medicine residency program. Simple, complicated and complex phenomena in health care - using the triangle to improve reliability and resiliency in health care systems. Faculty as coaches: their development and their work. Governance, leadership, management, organizational structure and oversight principles and practices. The triangle and undergraduate medical education. Triangle synergies in a national quality and safety education initiative in nursing. Collaborative improvement of cancer care in southeastern Sweden - striving for better patient and population health, better care, and better professional development. Contributing authors' reflections.

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Book SynopsisThe future of basic and translational research in health care depends on the ability of large, complex health science centers to educate, discover new answers to complex problems, and operate in the service of the public good. So what ingredients are required for successful research in academic health science centers (AHSCs)? This volume presents a number of compelling, international stories about personal and professional investments in research activities as well as the challenges, opportunities, and satisfactions. Each chapter explores concepts for successful research with a focus on the ways communities of practice form and sustain themselves in this complex environment. They explore questions such as creating and sustaining community, promoting innovation, transitions in leadership, and cross-generation collaboration from a personal perspective. They also present a series of portraits of scientists at work: building relationships, supporting one another, and contributing to their fields of study in unique ways. Enhancing the Professional Culture of Academic Health Science Centers offers enlightening reading for researchers, administrators, and policy makers interested in present and future research activities in AHSCs, who will be inspired by narratives of perseverance, passion, generosity, and generativity that fuel research in the centers.Table of ContentsPreface. About the authors. What's the story? A composite narrative of success in science in academic health science centers. Challenges and ingredients for success in the health science enterprise: a view from two corner offices. Breaking out of the silos in the heartland: making a clinical and translational science award program sing in Indiana. Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: what supports translation of research into health care? Answers from the group health experience. Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: what promotes discovery? Experience and insights from a medical school in China. Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: how the seeds were sown and grown at a summer camp for young clinicians. Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: cultivating 'research mind' - reason, dreams, and discovery. The relationship-centered care research network: its birth, life-cycle, and lessons learned along the way. Successful aging in research.

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Book SynopsisAcademic Health Science Centers are complex organizations with three principal functions: the education of the next generation of health professionals; the conduct of biomedical and clinical research that leads to new treatments and approaches to disease; and the delivery of comprehensive and advanced patient care. This is the first comprehensive book that describes in detail the knowledge and skill base necessary to successfully lead these complex organizations. Written by the world's leading authorities it combines the science of leadership, organizational structure, financial and personnel management, public relations and communications, trainee and student policy, community relations, and globalization. "This volume focuses on policy considerations that provide the foundation for AHSCs to thrive. While the legislation, challenges, and strategies will change over time, the need for strong policy to influence and guide organizational and individual behavior will not. AHSCs are complex organizations that must continue to evolve to face the multifactorial nature of health care problems. How they do so will depend to a great extent not only on having appropriate policies in place but also on their success in translating these policies into effective implementation." Andrew M. Ibrahim and M. Roy Wilson, in the ForewordTable of ContentsPreface. Foreword. Glossary of Terms. About the Authors. Introduction: The Hallmarks of Successful Academic Health Science Center Leadership. Academic Health Science Centers in the New World Order: Optimizing Structure and Governance for High Performance. Organizational Structure, Data, and Academic Health Science Center Transformation. Contemporary Challenges in Academic Health Science Center Financial Management. Conflicts of Interest and Commitment: Policy Making in the Academic Health Science Center. Regulation, Accreditation, and the Compliance Function. Human Resources and Personnel Management. Trainee and Student Policy. Faculty Accountability. Developing and Implementing a Communications Philosophy and Supporting Policies. Community Relations. Academic Health Science Centers and Global Medicine. Afterword. Acknowledgement. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Allied Health Professions - Essential Guides series is unique in providing advice on management, leadership and development for those in the Allied Health Professions (AHP). This highly practical volume offers a wide range of assessment tools and techniques in such critical areas as management quality, organisational and management structure, benchmarking, capacity and demand management, care pathway design, activity analysis, report writing and presentation skills. The layout is conducive to easy comprehension; tables, figures and boxed text aid quick reference and everyday application, and many of the resources are also provided on a complimentary CD. With contributions from internationally renowned professionals Key tools and techniques in management and leadership of the allied health professions provides tools that will be vital to all allied health professionals interested in providing timely, efficient and cost-effective care for their patients. These will include AHP managers and aspiring managers, senior clinicians, extended scope practitioners, clinical specialists, AHP educators, researchers, staff and students. 'The NHS is facing the greatest period of challenge in its history. The key to success is leadership. Allied Health Professionals will be a central part of this leadership response. In this work, Robert and Fiona continue their series supporting Allied Health Professionals in that leadership journey. It is an important contribution to this critical effort.' From the Foreword by Jim EastonTable of ContentsManagement quality in the AHPs evaluation matrix. Our assessment tool for evaluating AHP management structures. Benchmarking AHP services. Time is money, how do we spend it?- Analysing staff activity. Principles for computerised information systems for AHP services. Information management and IT support. Using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator within the Allied Health Professions. Appraisal: 360° feedback. Four basic behavioural styles. Adult learning and self-directed learners. Developing your teaching style and techniques. Outcome measurement matrix for AHP services. Models, techniques and approaches for change management. Outcome measurement matrix for AHP services. Care pathways and the allied health professional. Effective report writing and presentation: Planning the report. Top tips for report writing. Top tips for report presentation. Templates. Useful guidance.

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Book Synopsis'In recent decades most of the international effort given over to studying and improving the safety of patient care has been focused in acute hospital settings. To some extent this was always something of a puzzle to those of us with a direct interest in this important issue...Now, however, the tide is slowly turning. Policymakers, healthcare leaders and research grant funders are beginning to recognise that greater evidence is required to understand more about what can and does go wrong in primary care, with increasing attention now being paid to what can be done to minimise avoidable harm to patients in this setting.' From the Preface This remarkable new book represents a substantial body of work - led by key educators and researchers - devoted to learning about and improving the safety of primary healthcare. It offers highly practical guidance and evidence for a broad range of related improvement methods, concepts and interventions developed and implemented by the NES primary care team, or as a direct result of fruitful partnerships between academic, professional, public or regulatory institutions across the UK and internationally. Skillfully presented, the book is organised into five interlinked parts, each with a number of related chapters. Safety and Improvement in Primary Care: The Essential Guide is ideal for frontline clinicians, managers and healthcare administrators needing practical guidance on safety and is also highly recommended for improvement advisers, patient safety officers, clinical governance facilitators, risk managers, and health services researchers wanting a critical review of theory and evidence.Table of ContentsForeword. Preface. About the editors. List of contributors. Acknowledgements. Dedication. Prologue. Part I: Understanding systems. The heart of the matter: a parent's perspective. Improvement strategies and challenges. Safety culture. The wisdom hierarchy. Measuring harm systems thinking. Task analysis. Process mapping. Policies, procedures and protocols. Patient and public involvement - Part 1. Part II: People and improvement. Patient and public involvement - Part 2. Clinician engagement. Professionalism. Peer review. Professional appraisal. Multi-source feedback. General practice management. General practice nursing. Part III: Learning for improvement. Safety skills. Safety checklist for GP training. Practice-based small group learning. Protected learning time. Consultation skills. The power of apology. Part IV: Managing patient safety. Managing human error. Diagnostic error. Medication error. Medicines reconciliation: a case study. Safe results handling. Never events. Part V: Improvement methods. Enhanced significant event analysis. Criterion audit. Care bundles. The plan-do-study-act method. The trigger review method. Measuring safety climate improving out-of-hours care. Care improvement: a personal reflection. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe rise of evidence-based healthcare has put emphasis on finding specific evidence. Trying to find exactly the right article you are looking for can be vital especially when meeting a tight deadline or trying to find evidence for a particular treatment. This book from the Harnessing Health Information series shows the reader how to find the exact article quickly and efficiently. Fully referenced, it includes handy information such as acronyms with full descriptions and the available search tools. It looks at how novice users can find information in a straightforward and friendly way.Table of ContentsWhat is a health library? Understanding the library. Key special collections in health. Finding published materials. The reference enquiry. When it is not in the library. The electronic age. The future.

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Book SynopsisThe National Service Framework for mental health aims to provide uniformly good systems so that mental health problems are detected and therefore treated early. This book sets out how learning more about mental health and reviewing current practice can be incorporated into a personal development plan, or practice learning plan. It shows how to integrate quality improvements into everyday work, and bridges the gap between theory and practice. Doctors, nurses and practice managers can build up a personal development plan, or a practice professional development plan through completing the exercises at the end of each chapter, and it demonstrates how to include clinical governance in the mental healthcare services they offer.Table of ContentsClinical governance and mental health. Depression. Generalized anxiety disorder. Obsessive compulsive disorder. Stress. Schizophrenia. Dementia. Draw up and apply your personal development plan. Draw up your practice personal and professional development plan. Appendix One: Support groups, information and resources, and self help literature about mental healthcare.

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Book SynopsisHow can the quality of service provision and clinical governance in primary care be assessed? This book is designed to help evaluate the way practices interpret their legal obligations, the way the management systems within practices run, and the quality of the systems and processes that most affect the patient care. Quantifying Quality in Primary Care contains frameworks on which to build policies for the smooth running of practices and provides clear insights into attitudes of those working within them, and how to use this information to improve service provision. This straightforward, concise guide will help general practitioners, registrars and managers in primary care improve both service provision and management in the practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Quality in Primary Care. Using the tool. Part 1: The patients' experience. Practice demography. Access. Building, environment and equipment. Health promotion and chronic disease management. Prescribing. Record keeping and letters. Part 3: Practice management policies, staff and education. Management policies clinical governance and risk management. Staff employment. Communication and team working. IT and computerised systems. Continuing medical education and personal professional development. Patient and service user involvement.

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Book SynopsisGreat and increasing inequities exist between the peoples of the Third World and those of the First. As well, we find ourselves threatened by imminent environmental catastrophes largely as a result of trying to maintain such inequities. This clear and straightforward text explains the complex origins of such bodies as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and others, and demonstrates the extent to which they exacerbate the problem. The situation is now so grave that we can no longer afford the luxury of leaving it to the professionals. We are all involved. We find ourselves hearing daily news reports of wars, starvation, the HIV/AIDS pandemic and natural disasters, rendered worse by inadequate international responses. The United Nations, once seen as an effective arbiter and mediator in such matters, now finds itself unable to exercise authority adequately. Third World Health: hostage to First World Wealth adopts a positive approach and puts forward various ways in which people at all levels can become more involved. It addresses the pivotal issue of health in the Third World and argues that it is very much hostage to the globalization of trade by and for the benefit of First World agencies.Trade Review"'Splendid...thorough...balanced...astonishingly accessible...informing and inspiring. Theodore MacDonald writes with passion, as well as with sense. Much of what he has to say is drawn from his own experience working as a medical doctor and a mathematician in a broad range of the world's poorest nations. Overarching that is a powerful insight into social and economic issues, along with well honed skills as a communicator.' Desmond Tutu, in the Foreword"Table of ContentsHealth and poverty. Problems caused by inequities in wealth and by environmental damage. Mortgaging the Third World. The conflict between health and global conflicts: a case study. Finance. Popular opposition to the inequities. Milk and imperialism. The impact of First World wealth on Third World health: British American Tobacco in China. The tobacco impact worldwide. The Third World and HIV/AIDS. Peru - a detailed case study of one Third World country. Cuba - model or monster? Possible routes to global health equity.

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Book SynopsisOfficial publication of Obesity Awareness Week 2006 If only weight didn't matter to young people! But it does - and, in reality, it should. So how can today's youngsters overcome the relentless hype to look like a cool stick insect and combat the enormous pressure from the food industry to eat vast quantities of junk? What can families do to help a teenager that has low self esteem or may even be struggling with an eating disorder? Weight Matters for Young People takes an in depth look at how young people can assume responsibility for their own health, ranging from the various factors that influence teenage decisions right through to practical nutrition. The TOP teen Health Plan assesses the strengths and weaknesses of current lifestyle, whilst the Food Frequency Framework solves family meal dilemmas. Common dieting regimes are assessed to see which are safe or worthwhile, there is a chapter on eating disorders and finally an A to Z of common weight-related conditions. Weight Matters for Young People is a complete reference book that will put young people confidently in charge of their own health. Health workers will find safe, evidence-based nutritional information plus answers to common weight-related queries and plenty of further resources. Trade Review"'Weight Matters for Young People is a complete reference book that can put young people confidently in charge of their own health.' Rachel Pryke, in the Preface"Table of ContentsLooking at things from a young person's viewpoint; Does weight really matter to young people?; Testing time; Parents are no longer in charge of teenage decisions; The role of the food industry and government policy; Nutrition; The 'Top Teen Health Plan'; Nutritional basics for young people; The 'Top Teen Health Plan' family guide; The Food Frequency Framework; Overcoming teenage inertia; Weight and eating problems; All about 'diets'; Eating disorders; An A-Z of conditions that affect weight and eating in young people; Abdominal pain; Colic; Abdominal migraine; Urine infection; Acne; Allergies; Peanut allergy; Egg allergy; Anorexia or loss of appetite; Appendicitis; Coeliac disease; Constipation; Contraception; Depression; Diabetes; Gastroenteritis; Inflammatory conditions of the gut; Irritable bowel syndrome; Polycystic ovaries; Premenstrual syndrome; Teenage pregnancy; Thyroid disorders; Tooth decay; Height and weight charts; Useful websites and addresses.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the link between the ‘corridors of power’ where healthcare policy is made and the hospital, health center or clinic where it is carried out. It encourages and empowers readers to make changes in the public’s involvement at a local level and explains how this impacts positively on organizational culture. A user-friendly book written in a light and easy-to-read style, it combines theoretical arguments with tried and tested practical applications and features contributions from a wide range of experienced professionals. This is essential reading for every member of the healthcare team. It will be of particular interest to patient and public involvement leads as well as patient advice and liaison service workers, healthcare policy makers and shapers, students and patient groups.Trade Review'The emphasis on people "doing" policy whether they know it or not engages readers in what otherwise could be a dry topic[...]There are many policy books on the market, but none that use this personal narrative, "lived" experience style. The effect is to lure readers into the experience, a great way to learn!' DOODY'S REVIEW SERVICETable of ContentsPart 1: Theory and practice of policy implementation. Service user and career policy, its origins and aims. A further look at factors influencing policy development. ‘You will reach for the stars’ – policy requirements. Part 2: The reality of policy implementation. Rethinking how we interpret service user and career policy. Making policy happen. Telling it like it is. Getting on with the job. Heart of the Trust Scheme. Singing from the same hymn sheet – developing a strategy, structures and systems. And on to policies, protocols, procedures and people. The Human Resource. Part 3: Bringing it together – the ‘lived’ experience. Going the extra mile. Donna’s Story. A rights based approach. A change of heart. Political challenges for the lay representative.

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Book SynopsisHighly Commended in the 2005 BMA Medical Book Competition The Children's National Service Framework sets standards for children's and young people's services, outlining what support should be available to children and their parents in managing and preventing a wide range of conditions and problems. This book is a companion to the Children's (NSF), enabling those that work within the NHS, social care and education to the put the NSF into practice in primary care. Contributions throughout from key professionals who were involved in the evolution of the framework help by providing guidance and expertise from the knowledge and background material gained throughout its development. The authors expand on the vision, themes and goals published within the NSF and make recommendations for the ways that best practice can be implemented, particularly for children's healthcare throughout the UK and anywhere in the Western world. General practitioners, child health specialists, community nurses and anyone with an interest in or responsibility for the care of children in primary care and the interface with social care and education, will find this book invaluable reading.Table of ContentsThe children's NSF and the vision for primary care. Involving children and young people in how we organise healthcare. Getting it right in primary care: creating a child and young person friendly environment. Referring to others from primary care. Working with patients. Supporting parenting - the evidence. Linking health with education priorities through the National Healthy School Standards (NHSS). Promoting a healthy diet and physical activity for children and young people - the evidence. Promoting good mental health and positive self-esteem - the evidence. Implementing good mental health in primary care settings. Effective care for pregnant teenagers. Reducing unintentional injury in children and young people - the evidence. Immunisation in primary care. Child health surveillance. Disabled children. Children with special circumstances: what it means for primary care. Child abuse: what you can do. Listening to young people's perspectives in relation to adolescent health. Children's National Service Framework Vision and Standards.

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Book SynopsisThe Healing Tradition argues that Western medicine is fundamentally flawed because it fails to provide a healing environment for both individuals and society, and indicates potential ways to correct this through an integration model of medical humanities. All health professionals and those with an interest in medical humanities will find this book valuable reading.Table of ContentsSudden infant deaths: models of health and illness. What are heart attacks? Rethinking some aspects of medical knowledge. Conceptions of persons and dementia. The tradition of the healer. The enduring appeal of the Victorian family doctor. Changing priorities in residential medicine and social services. Contrasting perspectives of inequalities in health and in medical care. The creation of partial patients. The nature and role of medical humanities. Biomedical, humoral and alternative systems of medicine. Reflections on a new medical cosmology.

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Book SynopsisHelping others to learn about caring for people with advanced disease has always been a fundamental part of effective palliative care. This flexible learning material, formally evaluated by the Open University, is based on the Current Learning in Palliative Care (CLIP) worksheets to cover all aspects of palliative care. Easy to use, with activities throughout, they can be reproduced as handouts when presenting to a group, or used individually alongside a tutor, or within a group setting. Each worksheet is carefully structured and assigned a learning level from introductory to advanced, to give the reader an indication of how much experience or knowledge is needed to carry out the exercise. This book provides an essential resource to arm health professionals, carers and teams with the knowledge and skills needed in their daily work.Table of ContentsIntroduction to palliative care. Helping the patient with pain. Helping the patient with symptoms other than pain. Moving the ill patient. Psychological needs. Helping the patient with reduced hydration and nutrition. Procedures in palliative care. Understanding and helping the person with alternative communication. The last hours and days. Bereavement.

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Book SynopsisHigher Professional Education for General Practitioners is a practical guide on the best ways to plan educational and vocational training needs throughout professional practice. It clearly outlines the underlying issues surrounding the introduction of higher professional education (HPE) enabling newly qualified professionals to focus on areas that they feel less competent in, and areas that require additional training. In an easy-to-read format it provides all the necessary information to assist readers undertaking HPE, and for all those setting up educational programmes for newly qualified GPs in the first year after their vocational training scheme.Table of ContentsAn introduction to Higher Professional Education. What do trainers offer that has lasting value? Vocational training: the bits that vocational training doesn't reach. Educational needs assessment. Fit for purpose - CPD. Curriculum planning. Action learning and learning groups. Planning and delivering education and learning. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThe quality of cancer and palliative care is going through unprecedented change and development as a result of policy initiatives. The impact of these policies on education is unparalleled and it is essential that clinicians and educationalists are aware of the policy formation processes and educational strategies that meet the demands of these changing times. This book takes a holistic approach to patient care and draws on the diverse experience in hospices and highlights best practice to present a comprehensive and practical guide. However, it does more. New topics are given an educational perspective; those with limited educational experience are given sound advice; the implication of policy change is outlined. This is an important book and one which should be read by all clinicians, educators and managers responsible for improving services in cancer and palliative care. Table of ContentsThe impact of health and social policy on cancer and palliative care education. Clinical governance in 'face to face' and 'on-line space' palliative care education. Public education. Specialist and advanced nursing practice. Post Shipman - the impact on developing education in cancer and palliative care pain management. Death anxiety and death education: a brief analysis of the key issues. Nurses perceptions of spirituality and the implications for nursing care and education. Art and artistry in practice - a reflective account. The role of psycho-neuroimmunology in cancer and palliative care education. Complementary therapies and community nurses - implications for educational planning. Cancer and palliative care - evidence-based practice. Life review - an educational perspective. Humour in cancer and palliative care: an international perspective. An overview of hospice education.

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Book Synopsis Series Editor: Michael Rigby This completely up-to-date resource equips readers with practical tools to understand and apply health economic methods. It introduces the key economic tools and the data available that can assist an economic decision and covers a range of areas from primary care and national data to global indicators of health. The information presented is applicable to all economic issues - at individual practice or nationwide policy level. Harnessing Information for Health Economics Analysis is a vital handbook for all clinicians, managers, and policy makers and shapers who make decisions about planning, commissioning and delivering healthcare. It will also be of great value to health economists, and postgraduate students in health economics and related disciplines. Trade Review"'This book is not a theoretical textbook, but an applied book designed to equip its readers with the practical tools to both understand and apply health economic methods. This book seeks to provide anyone faced with making choices, personal or interpersonal regarding the supply or receipt of health care, with the information to make informed decisions about that health care. It seeks to introduce the reader to the key economic tools and the data available that can assist an economic decision and how to use and interpret such data. Its aim is not to turn the decision maker into a health economist but provide the ability to ask the appropriate questions, understand the relevant data and literature and to access the resources available to them.' Marilyn James and Elizabeth Stokes, in the Introduction"Table of ContentsTechniques of economic appraisal. UK National data. Secondary care data. Primary care data. Organisations providing health economics information. Measuring benefit and preferences. Resources and costs. Reflections and futures.

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Book SynopsisSeries Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman The application of the patient-centered clinical method has received international recognition. This book introduces and fully examines the patient-centered clinical method and illustrates how it can be applied in primary care. It presents case examples of the many problems encountered in patient-doctor interactions and provides ideas for dealing with these more effectively. It covers a wide range of topics and issues including palliative care, abuse, dying patients, ethical challenges and the role of self-awareness. Many narratives originate from patients' and family members' experiences, providing perspectives of great power and value. The Patient-Centered Care series is of great value to all health professionals, teachers and students in primary care. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Understanding both the patient's disease and illness experience. Understanding the whole person. Finding common ground. Incorporating prevention and health promotion. Enhancing the patient-doctor relationship. Being realistic.

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Book SynopsisJewish patients customarily have particular ways of approaching health and healthcare. This book outlines the Jewish practices and customs of direct relevance to health professionals, illustrated throughout with case histories. Information is provided to facilitate day to day communication, discussing etiquette and interpersonal relationships between the health professionals and their patients, describing in detail the dietary laws, customs and festivals. This book will offer practical advice about Jews, Judaism and the Jewish community helping to educate and enable all healthcare professionals in hospitals and in the community to provide care in a culturally appropriate manner.Trade Review'Easy to read - for anyone seeking an appreciation of Jewish belief and practice in a healthcare context (bearing in mind the wide spectrum of Jewish religious observance and practice referred to earlier), this book will be of value.' Inclusion NewsTable of ContentsPart One: Jews and Judaism. Jewish history - in a nutshell. World and British jewry. The traditional way of life. God the healer. Jewish medical ethics - in a nutshell. Healthcare values. Part Two: The Jewish Patient. Judaism and medical treatment. Caring for the jewish patient on the shabbos and festivals. The dietary laws. Women's health - marriage, sex and related topics. Caring for Jewish patients and at the end of life. Jewish genetic diseases. Jews as patients.

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Book SynopsisSpecifically designed for health visitors, general practitioners, nurses, dietitians and nutritionists, this is the first book to clarify the suggested balance of different foods and food groups needed to provide a healthy diet in infants. It interprets government recommendations and current research to give health professionals completely up-to-date, highly detailed advice in a practical, easy-to-read format. Tables and figures are widely used to illustrate complex concepts and aid understanding. It is ideal as a daily reference. Healthcare policy makers and shapers will also find much of interest to assist in the provision of new guidance.Trade Review'Its content is thought provoking, and it cleverly brings all of the research together, allowing for further reading should the practitioner so wish. One example of the evidence based recommendations the book offers is the identification of beef as a good first food for a child aged 5-7 months once they can take food from a spoon; the research indicated that beef increased a child's zinc intake compared to giving fortified baby cereals as first foods. The book's accessible layout means the first two chapters give a good overview of the weaning process, while the final three chapters break down the dietary requirements into finer detail.' Hannah Marriage, Student Halth Visitor, UK, Journal of Health VisitingTable of ContentsForeword. Preface. About the author. Acknowledgements. List of tables and figures. List of abbreviations. Summary of key facts. When to introduce solids . Key facts. Weaning and complementary feeding. The UK recommendation for introducing solid foods. Evidence relating to the six month exclusive breastfeeding recommendation. Energy and growth. Risk of gastrointestinal infection. Overweight and obesity. Development of allergies. Iron status. Iron status in developed and developing countries. UK infant iron levels at six months. Maternal iron supplementation. Infant iron supplementation. Vitamin D. The recommended age for introduction of solids in different countries. ESPGHAN: no disadvantage of introducing solids at four to six months. References. How to introduce solids. Key facts. Current guidelines. First and early foods. Later foods. Stages. Texture and finger foods. Food groups. Current advice on introducing solids. DH/NHS/Unicef 'Weaning' booklet. NHS 'Birth to five' book. FSA 'Feeding your baby' booklet. NHS/Unicef/DH 'introducing solid foods'. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Other information sources. Research and advice on introducing solids. Meat as a first food. Milk. Bread. Salt. Gluten. Introduction of solids and potential allergens. Food acceptance. Timing of introduction of solids. Homemade and commercial ready-made complementary foods. Proportion of food from different food groups. Perceptions of a healthy infant diet. Demonstrating feeding skills. Responsive feeding. Baby-led weaning. Introducing solids: summary. References. The dietary requirements of infants. Key facts. Changes in infants' nutritional needs during growth. Energy recommendations. Role of milk in energy provision following the introduction of solids. Fat intake. Dietary fat recommendations in the UK. Dietary fat recommendations in other countries. Fat intake, growth and development. Fat intake and later obesity. Quality of fat intake and cardiovascular health. Essential fatty acids. Suggestions for total fat intake. A conservative suggestion for fat intake in the UK. Recommended intake of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Recommended and suggested saturated fat intake. Body weight. Overweight and obesity. Dietary fibre. Measurement of dietary fibre and recommendations. Fibre intake. Fibre recommendations and suggestions. Benefits of fibre intake. Concerns regarding a high fibre diet. Suggested fibre recommendations for infants in the UK. The recommendations for non-milk extrinsic sugars and starch. The recommendation for protein. The recommendation for iron. The recommendation for iron. Effect of ID and IDA on infant development. Serum ferritin at birth and later risk of ID. Maternal IDA and later infant risk of IDA. Iron status after six months of age: IDA. IDA at eight months. IDA at nine months. IDA at 12 months. Iron status after six months of age: ID. ID at nine months. ID at 12 months. Complementary feeding and iron. Meat and fish. NMES. Commercial infant foods. Milk intake. Fibre intake. Enhancers of non-haem iron absorption. The recommendation for zinc. The recommendation for vitamin A. The recommendation for vitamin D. The recommendation for calcium. The recommendation for iodine. References. Meeting dietary requirements. Key facts. Meeting dietary requirements. Energy recommendations. Suggested fat intake. Amount of solids before fat required. Fat content of foods. Suggested daily intake of fat for infants. Number of tablespoons of food to meet daily fat requirements. Saturated fat. Omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Fibre intake. Number of portions to provide 0.5 g of fibre. NMES. Iron. Zinc. Common early purees, mashes and baby rice: energy, fat, iron, zinc and fibre. Increasing the energy, fat and iron content of purees and mashes. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Calcium. Iodine. References . Food intake: food groups and portion sizes. Key facts. Food groups. Number of food groups for infants. Number of portions from each food group. Portion size. Meeting energy requirements: number of portions and portion size. Verifying food group suggestions. Verifying food group suggestions: energy. Verifying food group suggestions: fat. Verifying food group suggestions: fibre. Verifying food group suggestions: energy, fat and fibre. Verifying food group suggestions: iron. Verifying food group suggestions: zinc. Verifying food group suggestions: vitamin A, vitamin D, calcium and iodine. Summary of food group combination information. Progression of complementary feeding by food group combination. Pictorial representation of infant food groups. Pictorial representation of food intake for adults and children: frequency and portion size. Infant guidelines on the frequency of intake of food from different food groups. Updating guidelines on food group frequencies. Suggested pictorial representation of proportional intake from food groups for infants. References. Appendix. Tables. Websites. Index

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Book SynopsisThis third edition of HIMSS' award-winning, bestseller explores how clinicians, patients, and health IT stakeholders are collaborating to support high-value care through health IT. Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer continues to explore information technologies applied in hospital settings, at the physician's office and in patients' homes to provide high-value patient care. Developed for healthcare executives, the book looks at how clinicians, patients and health IT stakeholders are collaborating on a 'team-based,' IT-enabled approach to healthcare.The book's authors offer provider success stories on utilizing health IT-such as EHRs, clinical decision support, telehealth and electronic quality measure reporting to transform healthcare, while addressing health IT usability, interoperability, privacy and security concerns and meeting federal regulations. New to this edition are chapters focused on how health IT innovations, mobile technologies and personal digital tools are demonstrating the value of health IT. Medical Informatics also explores successful EHR implementations by organizations recognized with the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence, through case studies focused on patient engagement, population management, clinical and business intelligence, health information exchange and patient readmission prevention.Table of ContentsValue of Health IT: HIMSS Health Information Technology Value Model. Personal Health Engagement. Fostering Innovation in Health IT. mHealth: Transforming the Delivery of Healthcare. Patient-Centered Medical Home. Meaningful Use: Increasing EHR Adoption and Paving the Path Toward Healthcare Transformation. Regional Extension Centers. Ambulatory Systems. Hospital Systems: History and Rationale for Hospital Health IT. Improving Usability through the User-Centered Design Process. Clinical Decision Support. E-Measures. Clinical and Business Intelligence. Nursing Informatics Today and Future Perspectives for Healthcare. Health Information Exchange. Privacy and Security. Software Selection. Project Management and Health IT. Why Do Projects Fail? Case Studies. Appendix: Acronyms Used in This Book.

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Book SynopsisPowerful and resonant, Foxconned is both the definitive autopsy of the Foxconn fiasco and a dire warning to communities and states nationwide.Trade Review"Tabak's new book Foxconned isn't just a detailed account of how Donald Trump, Scott Walker, and legislative Republicans snookered Wisconsin into a taxpayer-financed, now-in-shambles deal with corporate giant Foxconn, but an illuminating expose of all that's wrong with the way governments hand out incentives for private development." * Capital Times *"Tabak's [earlier] warnings about the project proved proved, with astonishing speed, to be well founded. . . . Broadly, and persuasively, Tabak makes the case that municipalities should not seek to spark economic development through large deals with individual companies, because they turn governments into venture capitalists, except governments don’t have the necessary expertise, tend not to hedge their bets, and gamble with taxpayer money." * Times Literary Supplement *"The new book Foxconned, by Madison’s own Lawrence Tabak, confirms that the factory was a sordid political charade from its inception. In a fit of negligence and malfeasance, political leaders abused the citizens of Wisconsin on behalf of a foreign corporation. The Foxconn affair was a scandal, and Wisconsinites should treat those responsible as political pariahs." * Isthmus *"Tabak’s engaging study of efforts in Wisconsin to attract the Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn provides a cautionary tale." * Foreign Affairs *"Journalist Tabak offers a stark cautionary tale of the murky practices, questionable economics, and political wheeling and dealing done in the name of economic development and job creation by manufacturing giant Foxconn. . . . Economic concepts are accessible and eye-opening in Tabak’s hands, while the events of small-town board meetings are simultaneously infuriating and page-turning. Tabak’s impressively researched and investigated narrative is as timely as it is gripping." * Publishers Weekly *"The book does such a good job of weaving together economics, history, and politics. . . It effectively illustrates what can go wrong when government officials try to orchestrate economic development." * Cato Institute *"A valuable forensic analysis of a disastrous, politically motivated scam. . . . Foxconned delivers a multi-dimensional analysis of the plant’s inception, funding, construction—or rather lack of construction—and eventual abandonment." * World Socialist Web Site *“A gripping and necessary postmortem on one of the biggest economic development fiascos of our time. Tabak applies a critical lens on the enormous quasi-public industry of business recruitment and how it can be exploitative—shockingly so—especially in job-starved postindustrial regions.” * Angie Schmitt, author of 'Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America' *“Foxconned shines a much-needed light on two unfortunate practices that undermine our nation’s economy yet receive far too little attention. One is the out-of-control competition in which governors and mayors throw piles of money at multibillion-dollar corporations to beg them to locate some jobs in their states and cities. Second, Tabak highlights how self-serving politicians often use tens of millions of taxpayers’ dollars to lure corporations so that they can boast about it to boost their reelection efforts. This is an important, well-researched, and highly readable book.” * Steven Greenhouse, author of 'Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor' *“Not only does Tabak do a masterful and nuanced job of uncovering and detailing the behind-the-scenes politics that played out in this ill-fated economic development project, but he also tells the human stories of those Wisconsinites whose lives were most upended as a result.” * Paul Fanlund, publisher and editor in chief, Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin *"The reporting that went into this book—into tracing the incredibly complex and deliberately hidden story of the damages wrought by Foxconn—is quite simply, breathtaking. This devilishly convoluted story is then told in clear, straightforward prose that makes this a narrative of our time, and one we should all read." * Harriet Brown, Wisconsin Writers Award judge *"Economists are often portrayed as being in constant disagreement, but one thing that we mostly agree about is that governments are really bad at picking winners... For those of you who do not believe the theory or who want to see how it plays out in practice, this is a good book. It gives numerous examples beyond the main story around Foxconn of why government should not pick winners. It makes a very strong case against corporate welfare in all forms and discusses the pernicious effects of competition between US states to attract investment." * Economic Record *Table of ContentsIntroduction Foxconn Timeline Chapter 1 Your Dream House Is Blighted Chapter 2 Foxconn Comes to America Chapter 3 What Does the Foxconn Say? Chapter 4 Who Made That TV? Chapter 5 The Land Grab Chapter 6 Racine, Poster Child of the Rust Belt Chapter 7 Sherrard, Illinois Chapter 8 Monkey Business in the Middle Chapter 9 Wassily Leontief and Input-Output Economic Impact Chapter 10 Flying Eagle Economic Impact Chapter 11 A Tea Party for Foxconn Chapter 12 A Bright, Shining Object Chapter 13 The Problem with Picking Winners Chapter 14 An Ill Wind Blows Chapter 15 All Politics Are Local Chapter 16 The Trouble with TIF Chapter 17 Following the Money Chapter 18 Foxconn on the Ground Chapter 19 Breaking the Cycle Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn many countries, public sector institutions impose heavy burdens on economic life. As a consequence of predatory policies, entrepreneurship lingers and economies stagnate. The authors of this collection describe many of these pathologies of a “grabbing hand” government, and examine their consequences for growth.Trade Review[The Grabbing Hand's] range of materials is impressive: the chapters deal with the growth of European cities before the industrial revolution, corruption in post-Soviet Russia, privatisation in Eastern Europe, local government in the United States, and more. The authors keep technical apparatus to a minimum. By any standard, let alone the debased standard of most modern economics, the essays are lucid and literate. * The Economist *Table of ContentsPerspectives and government; princes and merchants - European city growth before the industrial revolution; the allocation of talent - implications for growth; why is rent-seeking so costly to growth; corruption; pervasive shortages under socialism; the politics of market socialism; a theory of privatization; politicians and firms; privatization in the United States; government in transition.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a unique framework to understand how public institutions and private investors can collaborate to sustain long term investments (LTIs), with a specific focus on public-private partnership for infrastructure, blended finance mechanisms, and impact investing.Trade Review‘The business of business is being redefined before our very eyes: inclusion, sustainability, impact and ESG are now integrated into most investment decisions. Much more needs to be done as Agenda 2030 will not be met until “all hands on deck”. This book can serve as a good starting point for this critical collaboration.’ -- Royston Braganza, Grameen Capital‘This book highlights the importance of activating private capital to close the infrastructure gap and creating stronger collaboration between the public and private sectors. This will help to drive economic recovery in the short-term whilst driving longer-term economic and social outcomes.’ -- Marie Lam-Frendo, Global Infrastructure Hub‘This book is an excellent reference to university and master students, executives and civil servants, academic researchers and many others that are keen to learn more about enabling long-term investments and public-private collaborations.’ -- Iliyana Tsanova, European CommissionTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Iliyana Tsanova, Deputy Director-General - DG Budget, European Commission Preface 1. Public-private partnerships for long-term investments: the context and the framework 2. The journey towards sustainability: corporate social responsibility and sustainable investing 3. Catalyzing wealth toF drive positive social and environmental change: impact investing 4. Unlocking private capital through blended finance 5. Infrastructure as long-term investment: understanding the public-private boundaries 6. Developing infrastructure through contractual public-private partnership References Index

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Book SynopsisA unique approach to policy implementation with essential guidance and useful tools Effective Implementation in Practice: Integrating Public Policy and Management presents an instrumental approach to implementation analysis. By spanningpolicy fields, organizations, and frontline conditions in implementation systems, this book provides a robust foundation for policy makers, public and nonprofit managers and leaders. Detailed case studies enable readers to identify key intervention points, become more strategic, and improve outcomes. The engaging style and specific examples provide a bridge to practice, while diagrams, worksheets, and other tools included in the appendix help managers apply these ideas to team meetings, operational planning, and program assessment and refinement. Policy and program implementation is fraught with challenges as public and nonprofit leaders juggle organizational missions and stakeholder expectations while managing policy and program Table of ContentsTables, Figures, and Boxes ix The Authors xi Preface xiii Part One The Implementation Landscape 1 One Framing Implementation 5 Exploring Policy and Program Implementation 9 Defining Implementation Effectiveness 12 Unpacking Implementation Systems 16 Bringing the Analysis to Life 28 Two Conventional Perspectives on Policy and Program Implementation 35 Political Processes and Authority 37 Governance and Management 43 Policy and Program Evaluation 52 Conclusion 64 Three A New Perspective for Implementation: Strategic Action Fields 67 Introducing Strategic Action Fields 69 Core Programs 74 Unpacking Social Structures and Dynamics 82 Conclusion 96 Part Two The Implementation System at Multiple Levels 99 Four Policy Fields 103 Policy Fields in Focus 107 Analyzing the Development of the Core Program 120 Applying Policy Field Analysis 131 Conclusion 136 Five Organizations 139 Organizations in Focus 141 Analyzing the Integration of the Core Program 148 Applying Organizational Analysis 155 Conclusion 162 Six Front Lines 163 Front Lines in Focus 166 Analyzing the Application of the Core Program 174 Applying Frontline Analysis 181 Conclusion 188 Part Three The Practice of Effective Implementation 191 Seven Exploring Implementation in Practice 195 Implementation Dynamics: The Hardest Hit Fund 196 Implementation Dynamics: The Quality Rating and Improvement System 211 Opportunities for Change 222 Eight Leading Learning in Implementation Systems 225 Investigating Technical Challenges 228 Engaging Others in Adaptive Challenges 246 Bringing It All Together 259 Appendix A Policy Field Audit 261 Appendix B Policy Field Visual Diagram 263 Appendix C Program Process Flow 265 Appendix D Organization Program Integration Audit 267 Appendix E Frontline Interactions Audit 271 Appendix F Target Experiences Analysis 275 Appendix G Implementation Dynamics and Outcomes Analysis 279 Appendix H Implementation Improvement Blueprint 283 Notes 287 Bibliography 339 Index 379

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Book SynopsisThis flagship report for South Asia maps the financial risks from contingent liabilities in South Asian countries and provide policy recommendation to improve management of financial risks at the level of the sovereign, state-owned enterprises.

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