Accelerating health care transformation with lean and innovation : the Virginia Mason experience /
By: Plsek, Paul E
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BookPublisher: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2014.Description: xix, 196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781482203837Subject(s): Delivery of Health Care -- Washington | Health Facilities -- Washington | Organizational Innovation -- Washington | Patient Care Management -- methods -- WashingtonDDC classification: 362.109797/772 Online resources: Location Map
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"Lean methodology has proven effective in reducing costs and waste, and improving quality and value. Unfortunately, many in health care interpret lean's emphasis on reducing variation and standardizing work as anti-innovation. The book describes how VMMC has systematically integrated the structures, methods and cultural practices from the creativity and innovation literature into its implementation of lean. The theme of the book will be to show not just conceptually, but through VMMC's actual experiences how lean and innovation can work hand-in-hand to both incrementally improve and radically transform value streams"--Provided by publisher.
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 362.109797772 PL AC (Browse shelf) | Available | T0050667 |
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| 362.10973 QU AL Quality of care and information technology : | 362.10973 ST EX Optimizing the capacity to care : | 362.1097428 SE MI The Middleboro casebook : | 362.109797772 PL AC Accelerating health care transformation with lean and innovation : | 362.10994 BA NE The new public health | 362.110289 PA TI Patient safety culture : | 362.11068 FU HE Health and safety management : |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-185) and index.
"Lean methodology has proven effective in reducing costs and waste, and improving quality and value. Unfortunately, many in health care interpret lean's emphasis on reducing variation and standardizing work as anti-innovation. The book describes how VMMC has systematically integrated the structures, methods and cultural practices from the creativity and innovation literature into its implementation of lean. The theme of the book will be to show not just conceptually, but through VMMC's actual experiences how lean and innovation can work hand-in-hand to both incrementally improve and radically transform value streams"--Provided by publisher.