Hospital Administration Care category: 168 books
by Prashant Natarajan, John C. Frenzel, Detlev H. Smaltz
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Healthcare transformation requires us to continually look at new and better ways to manage insights – both within and outside the organization today. Increasingly, the ability to glean and operationalize new insights efficiently as a byproduct of an organization’s day-to-day operations is becoming...
Healthcare IT Transformation
Bridging Innovation, Integration, Interoperability, and Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book gives examples from healthcare institutions that are using IT automation and innovation to drive change and provides guidance on the strategic direction of HIT over the next five years. Improving the delivery of healthcare through HIT is vital for both the economic success of healthcare...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This book highlights views on responsive, participatory and democratic approaches to evaluation from an ethos of care. It critically scrutinizes and discusses the invisibility of care in our contemporary Western societies and evaluation practices that aim to measure practices by external standards....
by Lena M. Napolitano, MD
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Guest editor Lena Napolitano has assembled and expert team of authors on the topic of Surgery in the ICU. Articles will focus on: Oxygen Support and Mechanical Ventilation Advances; Ventilator-associated Pneumonia – New Definitions;Optimal Strategies for Severe ARDS; Persistent Inflammation/Immunosuppression...
by Ruby Parker Puckett
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of Foodservice Manual for Health Care Institutions offers a review of the management and operation of health care foodservice departments. This edition of the book—which has become the standard in the field of institutional and health care foodservice—contains...
Accelerating Medical Evidence Generation and Use
Summary of a Meeting Series
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Special Publication summarizes a series of meetings the NAM hosted in 2016, which was sponsored by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, with support from NAM’s Executive Leadership Network. The series underscored the importance of partnerships...
by Erie Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Inside Radical Loving Care distills the essence of Erie Chapman's three previous books into a single slender volume. It equips caregivers with stories of powerful examples and all the tools they need to live Love, not fear, every day and night. Execute the ideas in this book and your life and...
All In
Using Healthcare Collaboratives to Save Lives and Improve Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In the face of ever-accelerating rates of health reform, the ability to quickly learn and adapt is an increasingly essential survival skill. Collaborative learning, as this book illustrates, is a powerful method to rapidly spread knowledge. Yet knowledge comes in two flavors – “knowledge that”...
Design for Care
Innovating Healthcare Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge challenges to policy making, decision making and system design. In Design for Care, we'll show how service and information designers can work with practice professionals and patients/advocates to make a positive difference in healthcare.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
In healthcare systems, medical devices help physicians and specialists in diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics. As research shows, validation of medical devices is significantly optimized by accurate signal processing. Biomedical Signal and Image Processing in Patient Care is a pivotal reference source...
Summary of The Checklist Manifesto
by Atul Gawande | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande | Includes & Analysis Preview: The Checklist Manifesto is a non-fiction investigation of human fallibility in high-stakes environments, such as medical surgeries, airline flights, and skyscraper construction. It explains how the introduction...
Secrets from the Operating Room
My Experiences, Observations, and Reflections as a Surgical Salesman
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Every year, one out of every ten people will need to have a surgical procedure. The majority of those needing surgery know nothing about the operating room or surgery. In Secrets from the Operating Room, author Curtis M. Chaudoin provides objective information and strategies to help improve the state...
After The Error
Speaking Out About Patient Safety to Save Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Medical errors kill 24,000 Canadians each year, adversely affect hundreds of thousands, and cost close to two billion dollars. Victims of medical errors and their families who speak out often do so at considerable emotional, psychological, and financial expense. But their willingness to share their...
It's a Great Time to Be a Physician:
Building a Healthcare System That Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
It’s a Great Time to Be a Physician: Building a Healthcare System that Works is a call to action for physicians. It is a first-hand account of the changes being demanded of the US healthcare system and their implications for physicians. Eight trends are described that will create a better, more...