Improving Healthcare Using Toyota Lean Production Methods: 46 Steps for Improvement - Brossura

Chalice, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0873897137 ISBN 13: 9780873897136

Casa editrice: Productivity Press, 2007

Riassunto

What differentiates this book from other healthcare improvement books is that it is the only currently available book that presents a simple recipe of 46 lean steps for healthcare providers to reduce cost and improve quality. By taking these straightforward steps, healthcare providers can adopt the same lean methods which have enabled companies like Toyota to become so successful.

The first part of the book explains cost and quality issues facing U.S. healthcare. From that understanding, the second part then teaches healthcare providers a 46-step recipe to reduce costs and improve quality by using Toyota Lean Production methods. With industry experts citing that as much as 40% of the total cost of healthcare production is attributed to wasteful processes, it is logical that reducing waste will lower costs. This is the basis of this book.

Although other books have presented Toyota's lean methods, this book goes further by showing how to directly apply those successful methods to healthcare, where they are sorely needed. This book is intended to be a practical manual for healthcare providers to use to improve quality and reduce costs. It can be a multi-year strategic plan for healthcare providers to adopt.

This second edition includes additional improvement steps and five new appendices of practical examples authored by renowned lean experts.

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Contenuti

Preface Acknowledgements
Part I: U.S. Healthcare System Problems and Solutions.
Chapter 1: U.S. Healthcare System Problems.
Chapter 2: Respect for Employees.
Part II: Reduce Healthcare Cost and Improve Quality by Using Toyota Lean Production Methods.
Chapter 3: 46 Steps to Improve Cost and Quality in the U.S. Healthcare System.
Chapter 4: A Capsule Summary of a Lean Toyota-like Production System for Healthcare.
Chapter 5: A Short To-Do List to Nationally Improve U.S. Healthcare Cost and Quality.
Appendix A: Automaker Benchmarks.
Appendix B: Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center Emergency Department Patient Flow-Rapid Process Improvement (RPI).
Appendix C: 5-S Catches on at the VA Pittsburgh Health System.
Appendix D: Error-free Pathology: Applying Lean Production Methods to Anatomic Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Shadyside Hospital.
Appendix E: Going Lean in Healthcare.
Appendix F: Creating Lean Healthcare.
Appendix G: Fixing Healthcare from the Inside, Today.
Appendix H: Lean and Healthy.
Appendix I: No Satisfaction at Toyota.
Notes
Bibliography Index

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Productivity Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0873897137
• ISBN 13: 9780873897136
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320