Restructuring Health Care - The Patient-Focused Paradigm

Drawing on his extensive experience, J. Philip Lathrop offers in-depth advice on how health care operations can shift from hierarchical organization structures to patient-focused approaches. He uses a wealth of examples from health care practice and analogies from other industries to illustrate the challenges faced by organizations that have undertaken this type of restructuring.

List of contents

1. What's the Big Problem? 2. The Nature of Structural Change. 3. Compartmentalization and Its Discontents: High Cost and Poor Service. 4. Patient Focus Begins with Demand. 5. The Structure of a New Paradigm. 6. Patient Aggregation: From Nursing to Patient Care Centers. 7. Initial Deployment Decisions. 8. Enablers for Change. 9. Does It Work? Epilogue: The Patient--Focused Enterprise.

About the author

J. PHILIP LATHROP is a vice president in the Chicago office of Booz**Allen Health Care, Inc. In his seventeen years with the firm, he has led a broad range of consulting engagements for top management of many of the country's leading hospitals, HMOs, proprietary chains, and professional associations. During the past five years, he has devoted nearly all of his time helping clients develop and implement patient-focused care.

Summary

A Patient--Focused Paradigm Brilliant and timely, thoughtful and practical. Regradless of the final shape of health care reform in the U. S. , the patient--focused idea can and must be implemented.

Product details

• Authors: Inc. Booz Allen Health Care, Inc. Booz*Allen Health Care, Booz*allen Health Care Inc, Lathrop, J. Philip Lathrop, J. Philip Booz Allen Health Care Lathrop, J. Philip Booz*allen Health Care Lathrop, J.philip Lathrop, Jp Lathrop
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.1993
• EAN: 9781555425944
• ISBN: 978-1-55542-594-4
• No. of pages: 243
• Series: Jossey-Bass Health
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries