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Book SynopsisEngineering Solutions to America's Healthcare Challenges covers the technologies, systems, and processes that are emerging in hospitals, clinics, community centers, universities, and the White House to repair healthcare in the United States. Focusing on the importance of individuals being proactive about their own state of health, it presents a systems approach to changing the way healthcare professionals do business and take care of their patients.
Written by a leading government and private sector consultant with more than a decade of experience as an industrial engineer, the book features interviews with leading industry experts, both domestic and international. Describing how industrial engineering practices are shaping healthcare, it explains why systems thinking must be the foundation for every aspect of healthcare.
The book presents proven Lean and Six Sigma tools that can help any healthcare organization begin making operational improvements t
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What tools do engineers bring to healthcare providers and patients that they need? Author Ryan Burge believes that industrial engineering practices that are shaping healthcare and systems thinking must be the foundation. Using case examples drawn from IT, award-winning institutions, and actual patient care, Engineering Solutions illustrates application of engineering tools for analysis and improvement. ... At less than 150 pages Engineering Solutions is a quick read, a great discussion piece, and an introduction to the issues and challenges at hand in healthcare. ... The discussion of IT and reimbursement challenges points out the need for even more systems engineering expertise, like the kind that could have been applied to the problematic US healthcare website.—Book review appearing in the Blue Heron Journal, January 2014
What tools do engineers bring to healthcare providers and patients that they need? Author Ryan Burge believes that industrial engineering practices that are shaping healthcare and systems thinking must be the foundation. Using case examples drawn from IT, award-winning institutions, and actual patient care, Engineering Solutions illustrates application of engineering tools for analysis and improvement. ... At less than 150 pages Engineering Solutions is a quick read, a great discussion piece, and an introduction to the issues and challenges at hand in healthcare. ... The discussion of IT and reimbursement challenges points out the need for even more systems engineering expertise, like the kind that could have been applied to the problematic US healthcare website.—Book review appearing in the Blue Heron Journal, January 2014
Table of ContentsPrevention and Personal Accountability; Case Study in the Cost of Personal Choice; The Expert Is In: The Number 1 Improvement: Teach Prevention and Wellness; Critical Q&A; System Says; Following the Right Leader; When TOC Is Better Than TLC; Safety; Effectiveness; Efficiency; Timeliness; A Different Strain of Lean; Family-Centered Focus; Equity; Six Sigma; Six Sigma Cost Breakdown; Picture of Six Sigma Health; Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control; Design of Experiments; You've Paid for the Consultant, Now What? Technology and People Behind the Methods; Critical Q&A; Care Ethics; The Language of Care; Critical Q&A; From the Exhibit Hall to Your Body; Dealing with All the Data; Critical Q&A; Trading Hotel Rooms for Sick Beds; Left out by Mainstream Media? Opposing Views; Region Snapshot: Cuba; Critical Q&A; Insured or Imagined?; Medicaid and Medicare; How Engineers Can Help Patients; The Expert Is In; Critical Q&A; The Classroom: Where Medicine Begins; New Faces of Medical Education; Bench-to-Bedside Approach; Engineering Medicine; Exemplary Partnership; Put on Your Scrubs and Learn How to Communicate; Stress Nature over Pharma; Critical Q&A; Health Is the Law; Critical Q&A; Still in Development; Conclusion
