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  title info:
    title: Engineering Solutions to America's Healthcare Challenges
  name:
    name part: Burge, Ryan.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: flu
    place:
      place term: Boca Raton
    publisher: Productivity Press
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 online resource (pages))
  abstract: Engineering Solutions to America's Healthcare Challenges covers the technologies, systems, and processes that are emerging in hospitals, clinics, community centers, universities, and the White House to repair healthcare in the United States. Focusing on the importance of individuals being proactive about their own state of health, it presents a systems approach to changing the way healthcare professionals do business and take care of their patients. Written by a leading government and private sector consultant with more than a decade of experience as an industrial engineer, the book features interviews with leading industry experts, both domestic and international. Describing how industrial engineering practices are shaping healthcare, it explains why systems thinking must be the foundation for every aspect of healthcare. The book presents proven Lean and Six Sigma tools that can help any healthcare organization begin making operational improvements that result in a better quality of care for patients--all while reducing and even eliminating the waste of time, money, and human resources. These solutions include implementing Six Sigma in emergency rooms, 5S in accounting for medical inventory, using Theory of Constraints to form a plan for shortening the length of stay in hospitals, how informatics are used to aggregate and benchmark sensitive data, and design of experiments to recruit and retain the best healthcare talent. The book illustrates the most common factors involved with successful Six Sigma projects in healthcare organizations and considers the implications of a rapidly growing medical tourism industry. It addresses the role of insurance on healthcare improvement and also previews some of the most fascinating technological advances currently in development. It also offers examples and analysis of The Institute of Medicine's six aims for healthcare: safety, effectiveness, efficiency, timeliness, family-centered focus, and equity.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Medical care
    geographic: United States
    topic: economics
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical engineering
    geographic: United States
    topic: economics
  subject:
    topic: Health insurance
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Organizational Case Studies
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: National Health Insurance, United States
  subject:
    topic: Assurance-maladie
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Health insurance
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: RA410.53
  classification: 362.1 23
  classification: W 84AA1
  identifier: 146658355X
  identifier: 9781466583559
  identifier: 1466583568
  identifier: 9781466583566
  identifier: 9781306180238
  identifier: 1306180236
  identifier: 549274 MIL
  identifier: 9781466583559 O'Reilly Media
  identifier: https://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: CDX
    record creation date: 140207
    record change date: 20260129163756.5
    record identifier: in00004666673
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng