This book looks fun. Lets read it together.
Maybe not. Its 800 pages. Instead, summaries of each chapter will be posted. They'll be designed for audio (search in podcast app: Gregory Schmidt), and mirrored to a YouTube playlist. For those who prefer, at text summary will likely be available as blogposts.
Why are we reading a book from 2010? Isn't that old. Yes. It is. But I bought a few years ago, and just recently finished [2018] Internal Medicine board exams - so theres time at last to read it. It will also be quite helpful for fifth year residency work in healthcare system design.
Table of Contents
Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems
Edited by Yuehwern Yih. Published December 2010. 812 pages
I. Healthcare Delivery System Overview
1. Health Care: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?
David M. Lawrence
2. Engineering and the Healthcare Delivery System
Proctor P. Reid and W. Dale Compton
3. The VA Healthcare Delivery System
Elizabeth M. Yano
4. Outpatient Clinics: Primary and Specialty Care
Deanna R. Willis
5. Designing a Nurse-Managed Healthcare Delivery System
Julie Cowan Novak
6. Long-Term Care
Kathleen Abrahamson and Karis Pressler
7. Healthcare Insurance: An Introduction
Vinod K. Sahney and Ann Tousignant
8. An Integrated Model of Healthcare Delivery
Steven M. Witz and Kenneth J. Musselman
II. Performance Assessment and Process Improvement Management
9. Performance Assessment for Healthcare Organizations
Peter Arthur Woodbridge and George Oscar Allen
10. Managing Physician Panels in Primary Care
Hari Balasubramanian, Brian T. Denton, and Qi Ming Lin
11. Lean in Health Care
Philip C. Jones and Barrett W. Thomas
12. Patient Safety and Proactive Risk Assessment
Pascale Carayon, Hélène Faye, Ann Schoofs Hundt, Ben-Tzion Karsh, and Tosha B. Wetterneck
13. Toward More Effective Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice: Relational and Contextual Considerations
Priscilla A. Arling, Rebekah L. Fox, and Bradley N. Doebbeling
III. System Engineering: Technologies and Methodologies
14. Computer Simulation in Health Care
Sean Carr and Stephen D. Roberts
15. An Introduction to Optimization Models and Applications in Healthcare Delivery Systems
Wenhua Cao and Gino J. Lim
16. Queueing Theory and Modeling
Linda V. Green
17. Markov Decision Processes and Their Applications in Health Care
Jonathan Patrick and Mehmet A. Begen
18. Statistical-Based Analysis and Modeling
Min Zhang and Mark E. Cowen
19. Analyzing Decisions Using Datasets with Multiple Attributes: A Machine Learning Approach
Janusz Wojtusiak and Farrokh Alemi
20. The Shaping of Inventory Systems in Health Services
Jan de Vries and Karen Spens
21. Facility Planning and Design
Richard L. Miller
22. Work Design, Task Analysis, and Value Stream Mapping
Cindy Jimmerson
23. Scheduling and Sequencing
Edmund K. Burke, Timothy Curtois, Tomas Eric Nordlander, and Atle Riise
24. Data Mining
Niels Peek
25. Applications to HIV Prevention Strategies
Paul G. Farnham and Arielle Lasry
26. Causal Risk Analysis: Revisiting the Vioxx Study
Farrokh Alemi and Manaf Zargoush
IV. Design, Planning, Control, and Management of Healthcare Systems
IVa. Preventive Care
27. Vaccine Production
Karen M. Polizzi and Cleo Kontoravdi
28. Economic Implications of Preventive Care
George H. Avery, Kara E. Leonard, and Steve P. McKenzie
IVb. Telemedicine
29. Interactive Medicine
Pamela Whitten, Samantha A. Nazione, and Jennifer Cornacchione
IVc. Transplant Services
30. The U.S. Organ Transplant Network: History, Structure, and Functions
Timothy L. Pruett and Joel D. Newman
IVd. Pharmacy Operation
31. Pharmacoeconomics and the Drug Development Process
Stephanie R. Earnshaw, Thomas N. Taylor, and Cheryl McDade
IVe. ED/ICU Operation
32. Emergency Department Crowding
Joshua A. Hilton and Jesse M. Pines
33. Emergency Department Throughput from a Healthcare Leader’s Perspective
Airica Steed
IVf. OR Management
34. Capacity Planning in Operating Rooms
John T. Blake
35. Managing Critical Resources through an Improved Surgery Scheduling Process
Erik Demeulemeester, Jeroen Beliën, and Brecht Cardoen
36. Anesthesia Group Management and Strategies
William H. Hass, Alex Macario, and Randal G. Garner
IVg. Decontamination Service
37. Turnovers and Turnarounds in the Healthcare System
June M. Worley and Toni L. Doolen
38. Decontamination Service
Peter F. Hooper
IVh. Laboratories
39. Quality Control in Hospital Clinical Laboratories: A System Approach
George G. Klee
IVi. Emergency Response and Pandemics Planning
40. Emergency Planning Model for Pandemics
J. Eric Dietz, David R. Black, Julia E. Drifmeyer, and Jennifer A. Smock
41. Public Health and Medical Preparedness
Eva K. Lee, Anna Yang Yang, Ferdinand Pietz, and Bernard Benecke
IVj. Mental Health
42. Mental Health Allocation and Planning Simulation Model
H. Stephen Leff, David R. Hughes, Clifton M. Chow, Steven Noyes, and Laysha Ostrow
43. Correlation with Social and Medical Factors
Kathleen Abrahamson, Karis Pressler, and Melissa Grabner-Hagen
IVk. Food and Supplies
44. Healthcare Foodservice
L. Charnette Norton
45. Healthcare-Product Supply Chains: Medical-Surgical Supplies, Pharmaceuticals, and Orthopedic Devices: The Flows of Product, Information, and Dollars
Leroy B. Schwarz
IVl. Tracking and Information Systems
46. Wireless Sensor Network
James A.C. Patterson, Raza Ali, and Guang-Zhong Yang
47. Bar Coding in Medication Administration
Ben-Tzion Karsh, Tosha B. Wetterneck, Richard J. Holden, A. Joy Rivera-Rodriguez, Hélène Faye, Matthew C. Scanlon, Pascale Carayon, and Samuel J. Alper
48. Clinical Decision Support Systems
Sze-jung Sandra Wu, Mark Lehto, and Yuehwern Yih
49. Health Informatics: Systems and Design Considerations
Jose Antonio Valdez and Rupa Sheth Valdez
50. Privacy/Security/Personal Health Record Service
Jeff Donnell
About the Editor: Dr Yuehwern Yin
“Dr Yuehwern Yin is a Professor of the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University and the Director of Smart Systems and Operations Laboratory. She is the Faculty Scholar of the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering.
Dr. Yih received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988. Her expertise resides in system and process design, monitor, and control to improve its quality and efficiency. Her research work has been focused on dynamic process control and decision making for operations in complex systems (or systems in systems), such as healthcare delivery systems, manufacturing systems, supply chains, and advanced life support system for mission to Mars.”
Buy or Rent the Book
CRC Press has option to either buy or rent. Renting for 6 or 12 moths is quite affordable.
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