Streamlining Health Care Operations: How Lean Logistics Can Transform Health Care Organizations
Audie G. Lewis
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Description for Streamlining Health Care Operations: How Lean Logistics Can Transform Health Care Organizations
Hardcover. Defining several major challenges facing health care organizations, this book offers effective solutions developed in other industries that can be practically applied by health care organizations. It also shows health care leaders how to restructure their organizations, and effectively balance costs, quality, and patient access to excellent care. Num Pages: 272 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
Using the success of other industries as a model, this book promotes methodologies, indicators, and ideas that health care organizations can use to streamline their practices and maintain strong profit margins. Based on the core principles embodied in lean logistics-the systematic process of removing waste and inefficiency throughout the purchasing, supply, distribution, and business operations chain-Streamlining Health Care Operations shows health care leaders how to fundamentally restructure their organizations and effectively balance costs, quality, and patient access to excellent care.
Using the success of other industries as a model, this book promotes methodologies, indicators, and ideas that health care organizations can use to streamline their practices and maintain strong profit margins. Based on the core principles embodied in lean logistics-the systematic process of removing waste and inefficiency throughout the purchasing, supply, distribution, and business operations chain-Streamlining Health Care Operations shows health care leaders how to fundamentally restructure their organizations and effectively balance costs, quality, and patient access to excellent care.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787955038
SKU
V9780787955038
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Audie G. Lewis
AUDIE G. LEWIS is president and chief executive officer of Audie Lewis Consulting, Inc., a national research and consulting firm specializing in cost cutting, business improvement, supply chain analysis, and Internet projection and growth for the health care industry. He is the author of the best-seller The Year 2000 Health Care Survival Guide.
Reviews for Streamlining Health Care Operations: How Lean Logistics Can Transform Health Care Organizations
"New times demand new thinking, not cosmetic Band-Aids. Audie Lewis clearly has his finger on the pulse of the new economy and of today's health care industry. He is a true pioneer in his field and his ideas are innovative, principled and soundly pragmatic: they work."
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