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

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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.

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

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.

This book, though old, still makes many good points.

Disclosure: I am earning my Masters in Health Administration and a Masters in Business Administration. I read this book to get some background on patient focused care.

Content: Even though the book is from the 1990s, I still cite some examples from it. The author makes some good points that are not mentioned even in recent literature.

Writing style: Though I was able to get through this book, it wasn't a real page turner. The author is a consultant, and writes like one. I have read much much worse, but I wouldn't call this a "fun" read.

Overall recommendation. I would recommend this book to people interested in patient-focused healthcare. I think it is really absurd how some of the ideas pitched in this book still aren't being implemented though they are proven to work. It goes to show that our healthcare system traditionally doesn't encourage innovation. Only time will tell if healthcare reform will change that.

Clear and concise, very well-written... no wonder hospital administrators consider it a classic. A must-read for anyone who works in a hospital or is interested in the future of the American healthcare system.