Productivity Press imprint: 189 books
by Susan M. Houston
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This book focuses on providing information on project management specific for software implementations within the healthcare industry. It can be used as a beginners’ guide as well as a reference for current project managers who might be new to software implementations. Utilizing the Project Management...
by Suzette Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The vast majority of healthcare is provided safely and effectively. However, just like any high-risk industry, things can and do go wrong. There is a world of advice about how to keep people safe but this delivers little in terms of changed practice.
Written by a leading expert in the field...
Optimizing Your Capacity to Care
A Systems Approach to Hospital and Population Health Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Our nation's capacity to care is becoming increasingly stressed as an aging and increasingly unhealthy population collides with a relative reduction in the numbers of clinicians and ever-tightening financial resources. If even the mildest of future-state predictions are to be believed, we need a significant...
by Eugene Fukumoto
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization. It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external...
Problem Solving for Healthcare Workers
How to Get Better - Lessons Can Be Learned
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
While most healthcare facilities have an extremely high success rate at the most challenging lifesaving work and we all know of friends and relatives who have had supreme care, mistakes are still made and patients’ lives have been put at risk and lost.
How often have we heard politicians...
The Patient Centered Value System
Transforming Healthcare through Co-Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Imagine: You are a hospital Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, medical or nursing director, patient safety specialist, quality improvement professional, or a doctor or nurse on the front lines of patient care. Every day you’re aware that patients and families should be more engaged...
by Hari Singh
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Medical care is an industry and private providers and hospitals are the major service providers. They operate on business principles. Hospitals are getting highly specialized and complex. The diagnostics and therapeutics are technology intensive. Private establishments have to compete with one another...
Performance Management in Healthcare
From Key Performance Indicators to Balanced Scorecard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Performance management, often referred to as process management, is a strategy that can be used to achieve an optimum mix of quality, safety, patient satisfaction and solvency. The basis of performance management is the effective use of resources, as measured by quantifying processes and outcomes...
Chance or Choice
Unlocking Innovation Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Twenty-first century advances in technology, transportation, and business models have enabled companies of all sizes to enter markets once thought to be the exclusive domain of giant enterprises. In this environment, innovation has emerged as the competitive differentiator that will propel companies to become global leaders.Supplying practical guid
Courageous Leadership
The Missing Link to Creating a Lean Culture of Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Courageous Leadership: The Missing Link to Creating a Lean Culture of Excellence is one of the firsts of its kind to wade through the confusion among leaders on selecting the type of change approach that will get the best results in their organization. It educates the senior executive leaders and...
by Stanley Bernard Brahams
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The role of quality assurance is to ensure that once a specification has been agreed, every product and every production run meets that standard**.**
The Fundamentals of Quality Assurance in the Textile Industry describes how quality professionals in the apparel industry coordinating with overseas...
Why I Don't Work Here Anymore
A Leader’s Guide to Offset the Financial and Emotional Costs of Toxic Employees
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
You have likely heard stories from friends, family members, and colleagues who quit a job because of a toxic person—an individual who belittles, shames, humiliates, shames, or bullies. You may not have realized that these individuals not only take their tolls on our emotional psyches, but the financial...
The Toyota Template
The Plan for Just-In-Time and Culture Change Beyond Lean Tools
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Much has been written about Toyota over the last 30 years focusing on both its products (superior vehicles), and its operational excellence based on its Toyota Production System (TPS). The Toyota Template details the critical concepts and methods that Taiichi Ohno implemented in developing the Toyota...
Business Excellence
Exceeding Your Customers' Expectations Each Time, All the Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
An organization seeking to sustain and continually improve its competitive performance over many years must have a strategy – a Business Excellence Strategy.This book guides and illustrates the strategic journey to excellence, from major initiatives through everyday improvement programs, and helps...