As the most common health-care intervention, prescription drug use shares the most important characteristics of the health-care system in the United States.
Lean Systems: Applications and Case Studies in Manufacturing, Service, and Healthcare details the various Lean techniques and numerous real-world Lean projects drawn from a wide variety of manufacturing, healthcare, and service processes, demonstrating how to apply the Lean philosophy.
This book brings together leading experts from around the world to explore the transformative potential of Machine Learning (ML) and the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare.
Rethinking Return on Investment: The Challenge of Accountable Meaningful Use offers a timely exploration of the value achieved through the Meaningful Use of electronic health records and other components of the HITECH legislation.
Introduction to Health Care Management is a concise, reader-friendly, introductory healthcare management book that covers a wide variety of healthcare settings, from hospitals to nursing homes and clinics.
To counter pervasive levels of citizen disengagement from political institutions, this book examines democratic innovations that meaningfully engage with citizens to address some of the deficits of Western representative democracies.
This book is part of a series of titles that are a spin-off of the Shingo Prize-winning book Leveraging Lean in Healthcare: Transforming Your Enterprise into a High Quality Patient Care Delivery System.
Improving the quality of healthcare, while increasing accessibility and lowering costs, is a complex dilemma facing rural communities around the world.
The United States spends more than 17% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health care, while other developed countries throughout the world average 8.
This title was first published in 2001: This innovative text applies new institutional economics, public choice theory, and new public management concepts to the political arena of the Mexican administration.
The application of Lean tools appears relatively simple, but the change in culture required to turn Lean into a lasting success requires strong leadership.
This critically acclaimed work makes the case for collaboration and shows that it can be greatly enhanced with conscious understanding and systematic effort.
Alliance Contracting in Health and Social Care is a ground-breaking and practical guide to collaborating and co-ordinating service provision across different providers, taking readers through each step from initial concept to launch and operation.
"e;Rationing Medical Care on the Basis of Age"e; explores this highly topical issue and presents a critical argument on the nature of the possible crisis.
Cultural factors, in both the narrow sense of different national, racial, and ethnic groups, and in the broader sense of different groups of any type, play major roles in individual and group decisions.
This third edition of HIMSS' award-winning, bestseller explores how clinicians, patients, and health IT stakeholders are collaborating to support high-value care through health IT.
La necesidad actual de revalorar el acto clínico se vuelve imprescindible ante la crisis humanística en la evolución del conocimiento, la cual no debe considerarse solo una situación antropológica sino también epistemológica.
This book features over 50 of the industry's brightest female pioneers who share insightful lessons backed by several years of experience, as well as tips for navigating a successful career in HIT.
Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation: The Virginia Mason Experience describes how Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) has systematically integrated innovative structures, methods, and cultural practices into its implementation of Lean.
Data Warehousing for Biomedical Informatics is a step-by-step how-to guide for designing and building an enterprise-wide data warehouse across a biomedical or healthcare institution, using a four-iteration lifecycle and standardized design pattern.
Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine is rising, and it holds tremendous potential for more accurate findings and novel solutions to complicated medical issues.
Analysing the factors affecting the sustainable development of the Caribbean cultural industry, this concise volume explores how creatives operate within the cultural ecology of the region and the diverse range of tactics they use to mediate state and global policies to define cultural production and consumption in post-colonial small island states.
Drawing on decades of experience in the charity sector and enriched by real life examples, this book helps readers to consider how to be a more resilient leader and explores why a whole life approach could be a gamechanger in today's world.
This volume employs an urban lens to provide a critical analysis of the North Korean style of sustainable urban development in the face of severe sanctions and a scarcity of vital resources.
Ambient assisted living (AAL) utilizes information and communication technology to empower individuals to maintain an active and independent lifestyle for as long as possible.
This volume employs an urban lens to provide a critical analysis of the North Korean style of sustainable urban development in the face of severe sanctions and a scarcity of vital resources.
Anwender und Betreiber von Medizinprodukten setzen sich in der Praxis häufig über die ursprüngliche Zweckbestimmung des Herstellers hinweg, indem sie als Einmalprodukte in den Verkehr gebrachte Produkte aufbereiten oder Medizinprodukte unterschiedlicher Hersteller miteinander verbinden.
This book provides a practical guide to federated deep learning for healthcare including fundamental concepts, framework, and the applications comprising domain adaptation, model distillation, and transfer learning.
This book explores how medical device integration (MDI) supports quality patient care and better clinical outcomes by reducing clinical documentation transcription errors, improving data accuracy and density within clinical records and ensuring the complete capture of medical device information on patients.
Written by internationally acknowledged experts in the customer and patient experience movement, this book clearly outlines the principles and development phases of a great customer experience transformation.
This book investigates what faith means in the actual day-to-day practice of faith-based NGOs working in the development, humanitarian, and advocacy sectors.
While global challenges continue to reshape the here and now, public and corporate finance management needs to adapt quickly to increase the efficiency of institutions, enterprises and policies to face our new reality.
In an increasingly interconnected and digital world, this book provides comprehensive guidance on cybersecurity leadership specifically tailored to the context of public policy and administration in the Global South.
With the interdisciplinary challenges required of legal nurse consulting, starting a business in this field requires yet another set of tools: knowledge of running a business.
This significantly expanded and newest edition of the bestselling HIMSS Dictionary of Health Information Technology Terms, Acronyms, and Organizations has been developed and extensively reviewed by more than 50 industry experts.
This book provides a practical guide to federated deep learning for healthcare including fundamental concepts, framework, and the applications comprising domain adaptation, model distillation, and transfer learning.
Leaders of healthcare organizations and students aspiring to become one, should be asking themselves one thing in these financially challenging times: how can they maintain a strategic and competitive advantage over other players in their market?
This book provides a comprehensive review of synthesis and physicochemical and biological characterization of novel antibacterial biomaterials produced according to original procedures and aimed at medical applications such as wound dressing, soft and hard tissue implants, drug delivery devices, and carriers for cell cultivation.
Advancements in computational intelligence, which encompasses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics, have revolutionized the way we process and analyze biomedical and health data.
