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Introduction to Healthcare Quality Management, Second Edition, explains the basic principles and techniques of quality management in healthcare. This second edition features a new chapter devoted exclusively to the use of high-reliability concepts that help organizations achieve safety, quality, and efficiency goals. By using this easy-to-read book, complete with helpful charts and diagrams, your students will examine a range of topics, from measuring performance to creating high-quality services that result in satisfied customers. The book is packed with practical examples and case studies that apply quality concepts and tools to real-life situations. Each chapter contains a list of key wor...
Introducing the best one-step source of practical health information management guidance. In this text your students will find information they need to know for every key area of health information management -- information management standards and requirements ... clinical data systems ... computerized patient records ... confidentiality and security issues ... quality improvement ... telemedicine, people management issues ... and much more!
Grasp fundamental knowledge on health care information management with this book - part of the Medical Practice Management Body of Knowledge Review Series. This booklet covers the basic skills needed in medical practice, specifically focusing on the information technology and systems of the practice, and highlighting key concepts, tasks, terminology, regulations and resources.
Are you ready and willing to get to the root causes of problems? As Medicare, Medicaid, and major insurance companies increasingly deny payment for never events, it has become imperative that hospitals and doctors develop new ways to prevent these avoidable catastrophes from recurring. Proactive tools such as root cause analysis (RCA), basic failur
Error Reduction in Health Care Completely revised and updated, this second edition of Error Reduction in Health Care offers a step-by-step guide for implementing the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine to reduce the frequency of errors in health care services and to mitigate the impact of errors when they do occur. With contributions from noted leaders in health safety, Error Reduction in Health Care provides information on analyzing accidents and shows how systematic methods can be used to understand hazards before accidents occur. In the chapters, authors explore how to prioritize risks to accurately focus efforts in a systems redesign, including performance measures and human factors. This expanded edition covers contemporary material on innovative patient safety topics such as applying Lean principles to reduce mistakes, opportunity analysis, deductive adverse event investigation, improving safety through collaboration with patients and families, using technology for patient safety improvements, medication safety, and high reliability organizations. The Editor
Reference for clinicians and healthcare information management professionals, addressing the multifaceted ethical challenges of working with sensitive health information in an ethical way. Features Web site addresses for additional resources, real-life scenarios, and a consistent structure that reinforces the material.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.