Health Care
Health Care
In Lean Done Right, Thomas G. Zidel argues that ineffective approaches to Lean also can be found in many healthcare organizations today. He is concerned that hospitals and other healthcare...
In Anticipate, Respond, Recover, editors K. Joanne McGlown and Phillip D. Robinson stress that healthcare executives must take responsibility for knowing as much about disaster preparedness, response,...
Excellence in the healthcare industry means simultaneously satisfying patients and associates, garnering strong earnings, and providing high-quality care. Several American healthcare organizations (HCOs) have achieved...
In Hardwiring Excellence, Quint Studer shares his extensive knowledge concerning quality health care. Healthcare organizations that want to surpass the competition must place a strong emphasis on...
“Thinking forward” is the phrase used by Patricia Cahill, president and CEO of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), to describe the process that put CHI on the road to its current success. Thinking forward is the way CHI...
The price of prescription drugs is high and steadily rising. Through Medicare and Medicaid, much of the costs are absorbed by the government, and thus by the taxpayers. With these costs becoming more and more...
As biotechnology has continued to advance, some eagerly anticipate the creation of new intellectual property and a new bioeconomy. On the other hand, some fear that the desire for profit is leading to the unethical...
Many healthcare facilities struggle with providing quality healthcare in an efficient manner, so that the patient is discharged to the home or to the next level of care as quickly and as medically appropriate as...
It will not come as news to most Americans that the United States health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer people can afford to pay for medical care and fewer businesses can afford to provide...
In Beyond the Gift Shop, Mindy Thompson-Banko explores the collaboration between two very different industries—retail and healthcare— and what is required for them to work together and create something...
