Restructuring Health Care: The Patient-Focused Paradigm (Jossey-Bass Health) [Hardcover]

J. Philip Lathrop (Author), Inc. Booz*Allen Health Care (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1555425941 | ISBN-13: 978-1555425944 | Publication Date: October 5, 1993 | Edition: 1

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. Bravo!
--Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence and author of Liberation Management

This in-depth book offers advice on how health care operations can shift from hierarchical organization structures to patient-focused approaches. Uses a wealth of examples to illustrate the challenges faced by organizations that have undertaken this type of restructuring.

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"Philip Lathrop's book is 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. Bravo!" (Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence and author of Liberation Management)

From the Inside Flap

Why has improving performance been such an intractable problem in health care insitutions? While higher costs of technology, increased regulation, defensive medical practice, and other mitigating factors are often blamed, none of these adequately explain the rapid and continuing rise in personnel costs or the underlying problems in the quality of service.J. Philip Lathrop offers in-depth advice for making the necessary shift from hierarchical, functional organization structures to taking a patient-focused approach to health care operations. In a clear and readable manner, the author describes the concepts of implementing restructuring efforts in practice and explains the theories on which these concepts are based. Drawing on his extensive experience in helping hospitals implement patient-focused care, he offers a wealth of examples drawn from practice, illustrative analogies from other industries, and numerous "True Life Adventures'' to illustrate the actual challenges and development of organizations that have undertaken this restructuring.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 218 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (October 5, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555425941
• ISBN-13: 978-1555425944
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,207,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A powerhouse on health care reform., July 24, 1998

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This review is from: Restructuring Health Care: The Patient-Focused Paradigm (Jossey-Bass Health) (Hardcover)

A page turner on how to re-engineer the health are system made simple and practical for every health care manager, physician, and student. Using simple systems theory and scrupulous logic, Lathrop achieves a practical and encompassing guide to achieving patient-focused reformation of the U.S. health care system.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A powerhouse on health care reform., July 10, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Restructuring Health Care: The Patient-Focused Paradigm (Jossey-Bass Health) (Hardcover)

A page turner on how to re-engineer the health care system made simple and practical for every health care manager, physician, and student. Using simple systems theory and scrupulous logic, Lathrop achieves a practical and encompassing guide to achieving patient-focused reformation of the U.S. health care system

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book concerning process improvement, April 18, 2007

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This review is from: Restructuring Health Care: The Patient-Focused Paradigm (Jossey-Bass Health) (Hardcover)

This is an excellent book concerning process improvement within the Health Care industry. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone interested in enhancing hospital operations. The author's approach to analysis provides a clear understanding of the components that must be integrated within a hospital. The book presents the concept of "value add" with clarity.