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Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior (Applications of Motivational Interviewin)

March 10th, 2012

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior (Applications of Motivational Interviewin)

Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behavior change. Written specifically for health care professionals, this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making choices to improve their health, from weight loss, exercise, and smoking cessation, to medication adherence and safer sex practices. Engaging dialogues and vignettes bring to life the core skills of motivational interviewing (MI) and show how to incorporate this brief evidence-based approach into any health care setting. Appendices include MI training resources and publications on specific medical conditions.

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Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management

March 2nd, 2012

Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management

The Best Selling Text in the Field

Updated for the New Era of Health Care IT

“This is the most comprehensive and authoritative book available for the field today.”
—Mark L. Diana, PhD, assistant professor and MHA program director, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University

“With health care information technology now in the national policy spotlight, this book should be required reading for every health care administrator and student.”
—Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, chairman, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology

“The book provides an excellent overview of foundational principles and practical strategies—a valuable reference for health administration and health informatics students and professionals.”
—Eta S. Berner, EdD, professor, Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama, Birmingham

“The authors skillfully provide the tools necessary to facilitate movement from a paper-based to an electronic health record environment while championing the importance of managing in such an environment.”
— Melanie S. Brodnik, PhD, director and associate professor, School of Allied Medical Professions, Ohio State University

“Deploying health care information technology today is like navigating whitewater in the midst of a raging storm. Leveraging investments while introducing significant change is no easy task. It requires focused attention, a spirit of collaboration, and a willingness to learn from others. This book is written for the IT leader who is willing to tackle these challenges.”
—Stephanie Reel, CIO and vice provost for Information Technologies, Johns Hopkins University

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Reengineering Health Care: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery

January 14th, 2012

Reengineering Health Care: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery

In their legendary book, Reengineering the Corporation, Jim Champy and Michael Hammer introduced businesspeople to the enormous power of a revolutionary methodology called reengineering. Using reengineering, businesses around the world have systematically retooled their processes–achieving dramatic cost savings, greater customer satisfaction, and more value.

Now, Jim Champy and Dr. Harry Greenspun show how to apply the proven reengineering methodology in health care: throughout physician practices, hospitals, and even entire health systems. You’ll meet innovative and visionary leaders who’ve been successfully reengineering organizations across the entire delivery spectrum and learn powerful lessons for improving quality, reducing costs, and expanding access.

This book doesn’t just demonstrate the immense potential of health care reengineering to revolutionize health care delivery: it offers a clear roadmap for realizing that potential in your own organization.

Deliver Better Care to More People, at Lower Cost

  • How reengineering can lead to more efficient, safer delivery–and sharply reduced costs
  • How to focus on prevention and wellness, as well as chronic disease and hospital care
  • How to earn the trust, contributions, and passion of skeptical physicians and health care professionals
  • How to harness technology to create more seamless, accessible, valued, and sustainable health care systems–and avoid technology’s pitfalls
  • How Zeev Neuwirth transformed the Lenox Hill Hospital ER and the 700-doctor Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates practice
  • How Tom Knight is revolutionizing patient safety at Methodist Hospital System, one of America’s largest private, nonprofit medical complexes
  • How to start today in your own organization!

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