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“peter barritt”

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  • Humanity in Healthcare

    The Heart and Soul of Medicine

    by Peter Barritt ...
    The impressive progress of medical science over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has tended to overshadow the art of caring for the patient and their families. This book aims to restore the balance by examining practical ways in which the arts can help health professionals to understand the experience of suffering and illness. Written by a family physician with 25 years experience, Humanity ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

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    by Paula Stamps Duston ...
    Analyzing Form, Function, and Financing of the U.S. Health Care System tells the story of the U.S. health care system by using a narrative approach identifying function rather than the more common data-driven focus on structure. It presents policy decisions we have made about our health care system and analyzes some of their consequences to better ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Service Business Model Innovation in Healthcare and Hospital Management

    Models, Strategies, Tools

    Edited by Mario A. Pfannstiel, Christoph Rasche ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book demonstrates how to successfully manage and lead healthcare institutions by employing the logic of business model innovation to gain competitive advantages. Since clerk-like routines in professional organizations tend to overlook patient and service-centered healthcare solutions, it challenges the view that competition and collaboration in the healthcare sector should not only ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Just-in-Time for Healthcare

    by Thomas L. Jackson ...
    Series series Lean Tools for Healthcare Series
    The change from traditional ways of producing and managing healthcare services to a just-in-time approach requires a new understanding about what adds value for the patient or customer, and what does not. Just-in-Time for Healthcare is intended to share powerful knowledge that will help you participate effectively in the change to just-in-time.Part of the Lean Tools for Healthcare series, this ... Read more

    $61.82 CAD

  • Prevention is Better than Cure

    Learning from Adverse Events in Healthcare

    by Ian Leistikow ...
    Adverse events occur in healthcare with worrying and surprising frequency and, of these, a substantial portion are preventable. This highly-readable book, translated and update from the original Dutch edition, presents 15 model case studies which have been carefully designed to explore common themes in medical errors and offer learnings from those events that will guide practice to prevent similar ... Read more

    $65.95 CAD

  • Lean Daily Management for Healthcare

    A Strategic Guide to Implementing Lean for Hospital Leaders

    by Brad White ...
    You likely don’t need any more tools, programs, or workshops to improve your hospital. What you need is a simple and consistent approach to manage problem-solving. Filling this need, this book presents a Lean management system that can help break down barriers between staff, directors, and administration and empower front-line staff to resolve their own problems.Lean Daily Management for ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Leading the Lean Healthcare Journey

    Driving Culture Change to Increase Value, Second Edition

    by Joan Wellman, Pat Hagan, Howard Jeffries, Cara Bailey ...
    This book reveals and describes the leadership and culture change required to remove waste from healthcare processes and eliminate the root cause of soaring costs, poor quality and safety, and limited access. The book's delivery strategy revolves around personal and organizational stories and case studies told by physician and administrative leaders, all students of the Toyota Production System. ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Performance Management in Healthcare

    From Key Performance Indicators to Balanced Scorecard

    by Bryan P. Bergeron ...
    Series series HIMSS Book Series
    Performance management, often referred to as process management, is a strategy that can be used to achieve an optimum mix of quality, safety, patient satisfaction and solvency. The basis of performance management is the effective use of resources, as measured by quantifying processes and outcomes using key performance indicators (KPIs) – core measures that gauge the performance of an organization ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Patient Safety

    by Suzette Woodward ...
    The vast majority of healthcare is provided safely and effectively. However, just like any high-risk industry, things can and do go wrong. There is a world of advice about how to keep people safe but this delivers little in terms of changed practice.Written by a leading expert in the field with over two decades of experience, Rethinking Patient Safety provides readers with a critical reflection ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Solving Population Health Problems through Collaboration

    Edited by Ron Bialek, Leslie M. Beitsch, John W. Moran ...
    Rapid changes in healthcare and public health offer tremendous opportunities to focus on process improvement. Public health departments and agencies increasingly work collaboratively with hospitals and other community partners to promote knowledge and improve collective impact through public and private sector coalitions. Solving Population Health Problems through Collaboration brings together ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • MoneyBall Medicine

    Thriving in the New Data-Driven Healthcare Market

    by Harry Glorikian, Malorye Allison Branca ...
    How can a smartwatch help patients with diabetes manage their disease? Why can’t patients find out prices for surgeries and other procedures before they happen? How can researchers speed up the decade-long process of drug development? How will "Precision Medicine" impact patient care outside of cancer? What can doctors, hospitals, and health systems do to ensure they are maximizing high-value care ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Housing and Health

    The Role of Primary Care

    Edited by Gill Paramjit, Gilles De Wildt ...
    Housing is an important determinant of health. This book provides a concise overview of the impact of housing policy and the effect of housing on health. It covers the issues of homelessness and health, collaboration between organisations in delivering housing needs, and focusses on the role of primary care teams as part of the Primary Care Trusts. It will be of interest to all members of primary ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD