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Reengineering Health Care: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery
- By Jim Champy, Harry Greenspun
- Published Jun 3, 2010 by FT Press.
- Copyright 2010
- Dimensions: 5-1/2 X 8-3/4
- Pages: 240
- Edition: 1st
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- ISBN-10: 0-13-705265-0
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-705265-3
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- ISBN-10: 0-13-237148-0
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-237148-3
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Jim Champy, Chairman of Dell Perot Systems' consulting practice, is recognized worldwide for his work on leadership, management, organizational change, and business reengineering. His first book, Reengineering the Corporation , sold 3+ million copies and spent over a year on The New York Times bestseller list.
Harry Greenspun, M.D., (Washington, D.C.) is the Chief Medical Officer for Dell Inc., the world’s largest provider of health IT solutions. He has held a diverse range of roles, from clinical medicine to public policy, giving him a unique perspective on the challenges faced in healthcare.
In their legendary book, Reengineering the Corporation, Jim Champy and Michael Hammer introduced businesspeople to the enormous power of a revolutionary methodology called reengineering. Using reengineering, businesses around the world have systematically retooled their processes--achieving dramatic cost savings, greater customer satisfaction, and more value.
Now, Jim Champy and Dr. Harry Greenspun show how to apply the proven reengineering methodology in health care: throughout physician practices, hospitals, and even entire health systems. You’ll meet innovative and visionary leaders who’ve been successfully reengineering organizations across the entire delivery spectrum and learn powerful lessons for improving quality, reducing costs, and expanding access.
This book doesn’t just demonstrate the immense potential of health care reengineering to revolutionize health care delivery: it offers a clear roadmap for realizing that potential in your own organization.
Deliver Better Care to More People, at Lower Cost
- How reengineering can lead to more efficient, safer delivery--and sharply reduced costs
- How to focus on prevention and wellness, as well as chronic disease and hospital care
- How to earn the trust, contributions, and passion of skeptical physicians and health care professionals
- How to harness technology to create more seamless, accessible, valued, and sustainable health care systems--and avoid technology’s pitfalls
- How Zeev Neuwirth transformed the Lenox Hill Hospital ER and the 700-doctor Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates practice
- How Tom Knight is revolutionizing patient safety at Methodist Hospital System, one of America’s largest private, nonprofit medical complexes
- How to start today in your own organization!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
An excellent call to action on HC reengineering, By
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Amazon.com Review of "Reengineering Healthcare: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery. Jim Champy, J.D., and Harry Greenspun, M.D. FT Press, Upper Saddle River, NY. 2010.Eric W. Palfreyman July, 2010. In the present cultural climate--with its emphasis on political absolutism--it would be easy to hand off responsibility for healthcare change to the government. To its credit, Reengineering Healthcare does not do this. In the beginning, it specifically places the action on those who can most directly and positively influence it: "Reengineering must be done, and it must be done by clinicians. No angel of government, even under the auspices of `national health care reform,' can reduce the cost and improve the quality of health care without the work and leadership of clinicians. It's time for all clinicians--physicians, nurses, technicians, physician assistants, and pharmacists--to assume their rightful role in directing... Read more
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Intereresting Ideas but Flawed, By
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While "Reengineering Health Care" presents a range of useful information, the authors claim that they have produced a manifesto for rethinking health care delivery is wildly overblown. While their stories advocate persuasively for the benefits of preventative primary care, patient education and better coordination of care they fail to even mention the financial incentives and disincentives in the current health care system that work against these beneficial approaches. For example many diabetes education programs which surely help patients stay healthier have failed due to inadequate insurance reimbursement. Curiously the authors don't even mention by name the well accepted concept of a "medical home." though conceptually that is the thrust of much of what they recommend. Overall their approach is dominated by inspirational success stories by a number of remarkable innovators without considering the practice and reimbursement environment that allowed these innovations to...
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
More motivation than "how-to" manual, By
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Anyone who reads Reengineering Health Care is going to emerge a "Believer". In this short book, only 216 pages with very generous margins and spacing, Champy & Greenspun effectively present their argument that health care operations not only NEED to be improved, they CAN be improved. The book is filled with numerous examples of organizations that have successfully improved their quality AND reduced their costs, winning over both doctors and CFOs.Fundamentally, there is nothing new here. Reengineering, process improvements, a culture of teamwork---all of these techniques have been adopted and used effectively throughout many kinds of organizations for well over twenty years. What is relatively new is their application to health care. Recent initiatives to improve the US health care system have motivated many people to do much more than address funding issues; there is growing interest in changing the way the system works in order to improve quality, reduce costs, and expand... Read more |
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Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Why Reengineer HealthCare? 15
Chapter 2 Meet Zeev Neuwirth, Reengineer 25
Chapter 3 Harness Technology 59
Chapter 4 Focus on Processes 97
Chapter 5 Remember People 141
Chapter 6 Meet Tom Knight, Reengineer 169
Chapter 7 The Hunt for Reengineering Opportunities 187
Epilogue 209
Index 217
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