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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."
Dr. Stephen R. Covey, best-selling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and chairman, Covey Leadership Center "I recommend this thoughtful and innovative book to those who care about the American health care system-both in Washington, D.C. and around the country. As we continue to seek ways to improve the efficiency and quality of health care delivery in America, sometimes we look past the kinds of innovative approaches examined in Streamlining Health Care Operations. Audie Lewis's book is an important contribution to this debate."
The Honorable J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives, United States of America "Audie Lewis's examples from health care and other industries and his thought-provoking questions will assist senior executives as they consider how to increase operational efficiencies and improve the care they deliver."
Glenn Pearson, executive vice president, GHA: An Association of Hospital and Health Systems "A guide for the health care executive needing to provide quality care with resources stretched to the limit."
Joe W. Smith, chief executive officer, National Healthcare Logistics "After reading this book, health care executives and managers have no excuse for not launching massive efforts aimed at organizational streamlining."
Dean C. Coddington, senior consultant, McManis Consulting, Denver, Colorado
Dr. Stephen R. Covey, best-selling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and chairman, Covey Leadership Center "I recommend this thoughtful and innovative book to those who care about the American health care system-both in Washington, D.C. and around the country. As we continue to seek ways to improve the efficiency and quality of health care delivery in America, sometimes we look past the kinds of innovative approaches examined in Streamlining Health Care Operations. Audie Lewis's book is an important contribution to this debate."
The Honorable J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives, United States of America "Audie Lewis's examples from health care and other industries and his thought-provoking questions will assist senior executives as they consider how to increase operational efficiencies and improve the care they deliver."
Glenn Pearson, executive vice president, GHA: An Association of Hospital and Health Systems "A guide for the health care executive needing to provide quality care with resources stretched to the limit."
Joe W. Smith, chief executive officer, National Healthcare Logistics "After reading this book, health care executives and managers have no excuse for not launching massive efforts aimed at organizational streamlining."
Dean C. Coddington, senior consultant, McManis Consulting, Denver, Colorado