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Download medical books file now PRETITLE Reengineering Health Care POSTTITLE from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link (22 reviews) Author: ISBN : Product Detai New from Format: PDFIn their legendary book, Reengineering the Corporation, Jim Champy and Michael Hammer introduced businesspeople to the enormous power of a revolutionary methodology called reengineering. Using reengineering, businesses around the world have systematically retooled their processes - achieving dramatic cost savings, greater customer satisfaction, and more value. Now, Jim Champy and Dr. Harry Greenspun show how to apply the proven reengineering methodology in health care: throughout physician practices, hospitals, and even entire health systems. Youll meet innovative and visionary leaders who've been successfully reengineering organizations across the entire delivery spectrum and learn powerful lessons for improving quality, reducing costs, and expanding access. This book doesn't just demonstrate the immense potential of health care reengineering to revolutionize health care delivery: it offers a clear roadmap for realizing that potential in your own organization.
- Deliver Better Care to More People, at Lower Cost
- How reengineering can lead to more efficient, safer delivery--and sharply reduced costs
- How to focus on prevention and wellness, as well as chronic disease and hospital care
- How to earn the trust, contributions, and passion of skeptical physicians and health care professionals
- How to harness technology to create more seamless, accessible, valued, and sustainable health care systems--and avoid technology's pitfalls
- How Zeev Neuwirth transformed the Lenox Hill Hospital ER and the 700-doctor Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates practice
- How Tom Knight is revolutionizing patient safety at Methodist Hospital System, one of Americas largest private, nonprofit medical complexes
- How to start today in your own organization!
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 4 hours and 22 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Audible, Inc
- Audible.com Release Date: September 24, 2010
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0044CMTEA
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Amazon.com Review of "Reengineering Healthcare: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery. Jim Champy, J.D., and Harry Greenspun, M.D. FT Press, Upper Saddle River, NY. 2010.
Eric W. Palfreyman
July, 2010.
In the present cultural climate--with its emphasis on political absolutism--it would be easy to hand off responsibility for healthcare change to the government. To its credit, Reengineering Healthcare does not do this. In the beginning, it specifically places the action on those who can most directly and positively influence it:
"Reengineering must be done, and it must be done by clinicians. No angel of government, even under the auspices of `national health care reform,' can reduce the cost and improve the quality of health care without the work and leadership of clinicians. It's time for all clinicians--physicians, nurses, technicians, physician assistants, and pharmacists--to assume their rightful role in directing change."
The first question I want answered in any book I'm considering is whether it is a good read. The answer on Reengineering Healthcare is a resounding "yes". Champy's writing has always been high on a readability scale and Champy and Greenspun have delivered a book that is easy to read and engaging from beginning to end. It is an excellent mixture of case studies, narrative, inspiration, challenge, and technique. The book is long enough to convey knowledge and inspiration, but not long enough to become tedious. If its desire was to inspire as well as instruct, it is a very successful book.
While "Reengineering Health Care" presents a range of useful information, the authors claim that they have produced a manifesto for rethinking health care delivery is wildly overblown. While their stories advocate persuasively for the benefits of preventative primary care, patient education and better coordination of care they fail to even mention the financial incentives and disincentives in the current health care system that work against these beneficial approaches. For example many diabetes education programs which surely help patients stay healthier have failed due to inadequate insurance reimbursement. Curiously the authors don't even mention by name the well accepted concept of a "medical home." though conceptually that is the thrust of much of what they recommend. Overall their approach is dominated by inspirational success stories by a number of remarkable innovators without considering the practice and reimbursement environment that allowed these innovations to succeed.
The discussion of electronic health records was particularly useless in my opinion as a nurse who is looking forward to the federally funded implementation of such systems at my workplace and many other hospitals within the next 8 to 10 months. For example the authors fail to seriously consider the need for and barriers to infomation exchange between primary care, specialist and hospital health records. I did find some novel and useful ideas in this book. For example, their well supported description of the efficiency and patient satisfaction with group medical appointments was a susprise to me. They also justly tout the cost effectiveness of web based patient education though without any suggestion of who is going to fund or pay for it.
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