Hospital Operations Upplaga 1

Advanced Operations Management Solutions for Improving All Facets of Hospital Performance: Operational, Clinical, Financial, and Organizational

 

Provides a concise summary of basic management principles, framed in hospital terms

Describes a practical approach to leveraging management principles to improve hospital practices

Provides a structured framework for addressing the most pressing challenges facing hospitals now and in the future

 

By one estimate, the United States wastes $480 billion annually on healthcare expenditures that dont improve care. Worse, because of faulty systems (not personnel), up to 98,000 people die annually due to preventable medical errors and that doesnt even count non-terminal events such as hospital-acquired infections.

 

In Hospital Operations, two leading Operations Management experts and five practicing clinicians demonstrate how to apply new OM advances and metrics to substantially improve any hospitals performance. Replete with examples, Hospital Operations shows how to generate principles-driven breakthrough ideas to systematically improve emergency departments, operating rooms, nursing units, and diagnostic units. The authors conclude by previewing the Hospital of the Future, addressing issues ranging from prevention and self-care to emerging technologies and the growing maturity of evidence-based medicine.

 

This unique resource will be indispensable to all healthcare operations managers/executives and related healthcare professionals. Students in hospital management courses will also find sufficient history and institutional knowledge to take full advantage of it without prior knowledge of health care systems.

Most health care debates center on the best political and economic structure to promote health and health care. Whether they advocate a centralized, single-payer system, a decentralized market-based system, or anything in between, such debates tend to abstract away from actual hands on medical practicea dangerous oversimplification. All the value in any conceivable system is only realized in the actual delivery, when hands touch patients. Everything else is prelude.

 

Hospital Operations focuses exclusively on the health care delivery process to generate insights and tools for improving hospital performance regardless of the political or economic environment. Specifically this book helps hospital administrators and clinicians to:

 

Reduce ED over crowding

Improve patient safety

Enhance OR scheduling

Strengthen organizational learning

Improve bed availability

Optimize nurse schedules

Create seamless patient handoffs

Reduce lab turnaround time and errors

Improve imaging responsiveness

Improve cost efficiency

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