Designed to Adapt: Leading Healthcare in Challenging Times

by Kenagy & Associates, LLC Healthcare Book

Product Features

• This book is primarily about making patients' lives better.
• And new approaches to healthcare.
• Giving patients what they need with low cost.

Product Description

Dr. John Kenagy's formula for saving healthcare one problem at a time is termed "Adaptive Design," a set of methods, skills and tools designed to get healthcare back to the ideals of patient care by cultivating adaptability into the everyday work of the organization and its people. Dr. Kenagy explains how. Here's a preview: 1. Learn the five characteristics of great adaptive leaders. (p. 128) 2. Discover disruptive innovation. Will you be a disruptive innovator? Or will you be disrupted? (Chapter 5) 3. Explore principles for creating a safe, effective, learning laboratory and innovation incubator in every patient care environment. (pp. 71-72) 4. Recognize the seven roadblocks to sustainable healthcare innovation and learn how to eliminate them. (pp. 113-118) 5. Learn the keys to financial strength and stability in 21st century healthcare. Does your strategy align? (p. 159) The secret to success in 21st century healthcare is no secret: Get patients exactly what they need at a continually lower cost. It's the way to fix healthcare.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: 0981460526
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a excellent guide for handling the whitewater of today's healthcare, November 24, 2009

By 

Tim D from Dallas "Tim" (Dallas, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Designed to Adapt: Leading Healthcare in Challenging Times (Paperback)

Dr Kenagy as surgeon,scholar, patient and thinker has set a course for improving healthcare at the point of impact. This is not simply a thoroughly researched book as much as a how to guide for improving the delivery of healthcare in challenging times.

I found it nearly impossible to just read; rather I had to study it and take notes, review those notes and then see how it can apply to my own situation. Rarely has a book intrigued me and enticed me with so much possibility as much as this one.

Oh, I am sure he will have his detractors and I suspect they will come from academia. but pay the haters no heed. This book has immediately applicable tools to improve your office, clinic, hospital or practice.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book can make your life better, if you let it, December 23, 2009

By 

Karl B. Palmer - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Designed to Adapt: Leading Healthcare in Challenging Times (Paperback)

Dr Kenagy has hit a home run with this book. He has condensed the most important concepts of the well vetted Toyota production system methods and created a book that any healthcare worker can read, understand immediately, and use the knowledge to begin improving patient care. This book is an easy read, the methods are intuitive, and if effectively implemented in a department, Adaptive Design can empower staff and provide the best care possible (until you improve it some more!)