Editors:
- Lean thinking is a key area and of growing significance in the study of healthcare delivery and health administration
- Examines ICT use in healthcare while grounded in leading management theories
- Comprehensive and well integrated text that examines ICT issues and use in the area of Lean Thinking
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age (Healthcare Delivery Inform. Age)
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Key Concepts, Tools and Techniques
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Front Matter
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Applications of Lean Thinking Around the Healthcare World
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Front Matter
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Macro Issues
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About this book
A growing, aging population; the rise to epidemic proportions of various chronic diseases; competing, often overlapping medical technologies; and of course, skyrocketing costs compounded by waste and inefficiency - these are just a few of the multifarious challenges currently facing healthcare delivery. An
unexpected source of solutions is being imported from the manufacturing sector: lean thinking.
Lean Principles for Healthcare presents a conceptual framework, management principles, and practical tools for professionals tasked with designing and implementing modern, streamlined healthcare systems or overhauling faulty ones. Focusing on core components such as knowledge management, e-health, patient-centeredness, and collaborative care, chapters illustrate lean concepts in action across specialties (as diverse as nursing, urology, and emergency care) and around the globe. Extended case examples show health systems responding to consumer needs and provider realities with equal efficiency and effectiveness, and improved quality and patient outcomes. Further, contributors tackle the gamut of technological, medical, cultural, and business issues, among them:
- Initiatives of service-oriented architecture towards performance improvement
- Adapted lean thinking for emergency departments
- Lean thinking in dementia care through smart assistive technology
- Supporting preventive healthcare with persuasive services
- Value stream mapping for lean healthcare
- A technology mediated solution to reduce healthcare disparities
Geared toward both how lean ideas can be carried out and how they are being used successfully in the real world, LeanPrinciples for Healthcare not only brings expert knowledge to healthcare managers and health services researchers but to all who have an interest in superior healthcare delivery.
Keywords
- Clinical governance
- Healthcare IT
- Process variation in healthcare
- Waste reduction in healthcare
- e-health
- electronic health records
- healthcare delivery
- healthcare management
- healthcare operations
- lean thinking
- network centric healthcare
- patient centric healthcare
- practice audits with e-tools
- six sigma
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The purpose is to discuss a wide range of issues around the common theme of healthcare delivery through lean thinking modalities. … written for anyone engaged in healthcare delivery systems with an interest in efficiently implementing lean strategies. Its greatest value will be seen by healthcare administrators and even information technology specialists as there is a great deal of systems information. … This book has great utility for those interested in a comprehensive review of lean thinking … .” (Phillip Stephens, Doody’s Book Reviews, April, 2014)Editors and Affiliations
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RMIT University, School of Business Information Technolog, Melbourne VIC, Australia
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
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University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia
Latif Al-Hakim
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Department of Urology, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Chris Gonzalez
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DeGroote School Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Joseph Tan
About the editors
Nilmini Wickramasinghe PhD, MBA, who currently holds the Epworth Chair Health Information Management was appointed in Dec 2009 as a Professor to RMIT University’s School of Business IT and Logistics and is also a core member of its Health Innovation and Research Institute(HIRi), RMIT University after being a professor in the US for 15 years. She researches and teaches in several areas within information systems including knowledge management, e-commerce and m-commerce, and organizational impacts of technology with particular focus on the applications of these areas to healthcare and thereby effecting superior healthcare delivery. Professor Wickramasinghe is well published with more than 300 referred scholarly articles, several books and an encyclopedia. She has collaborated with many large organizations such as NASA and GE as well as leading healthcare organizations such as the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Kaiser and NorthWestern Memorial Hospital. In addition, she regularly presents her work throughout North America, as well as in Europe and Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lean Thinking for Healthcare
Editors: Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Latif Al-Hakim, Chris Gonzalez, Joseph Tan
Series Title: Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8036-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8035-8Published: 04 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5245-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8036-5Published: 04 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2191-5946
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5954
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 645
Number of Illustrations: 178 b/w illustrations
Topics: Health Administration, Business and Management, general, Health Informatics