Main description:

A succinct and practical primer on healthcare transformation, Leading Healthcare Transformation is a key resource for all clinicians in leadership positions. It summarizes high-profile healthcare topics and includes a synopsis of the evidence, examples, lessons learned, and key action steps for each topic covered.

Providing cutting-edge insights from the quality and physician perspectives, the book focuses on the most critical topics in the field today, including the issues of quality, cost, value, and new models of care.

The book includes discussions on various quality improvement processes including Lean and Six Sigma. Detailing specific strategies and tools to help you achieve and sustain improvement, it explains how to build a culture of safety and identifies proven principles and practices for creating a high reliability organization.

Blending the perspectives of administrators, nurses, and physicians, this insightful and practical resource provides the understanding you need to leverage health information technology for clinical improvement and to improve care coordination to reduce readmissions.

The book includes a Foreword by Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, FACP, FACMI.

Contents:

The Health Care Landscape. Effectively Implementing Quality and Safety Improvement. Spreading Improvement. Physician Champions. Building a Culture of Safety. Principles and Practices of High Reliability Organizations. Key Quality and Safety Measures. Using Data for Feedback and Improvement. Leading Effective Teams: For Clinical Care and for Performance. Engaging Patients and Families. Improving Care Coordination and Reducing Readmissions. Addressing Variation in Utilization. Physician Alignment and Clinical Integration. The Clinical Leader Role in Emerging Models of Care.