Process Optimization in Home Healthcare

View Cart

Table of Contents

Ch. 1
Introduction

Ch. 2
Maximizing
Operational Effectiveness

Ch. 3
Best Industry Practices

Ch. 4
Change Management

Ch. 5
Project Management

Ch. 6
Benefits of Activity Modeling

Ch. 7
The Origins of
Activity Modeling

Ch. 8
How to Read an
Activity Model

Ch. 9
Analysis with
Activity Modeling

Ch. 10
ProcessWorks!98:
The Process Model Viewer

Ch. 11
Healthcare Enterprise Reference Models

Glossary
Corporate Profile

Appendix 1
From Logical Model to Physical Database

Data Model
Data Model Glossary
Index


Other Wizdom Books:

DoDAF Wizdom

BPR Wizdom

Beyond the Supply Chain

Manufacturing Enterprise Reference Model

Process Optimization in Home Healthcare
click picture to enlarge 		Process Optimization in Home Healthcare:
A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Improving Healthcare Delivery to Home-Bound Patients

By the Wizards of Wizdom Systems, Inc.

Foreword by Robert H. Fiser, Jr. M.D.
copyright 1999
Improving Healthcare Delivery to Home-Bound Patients

At last! A step-by-step guide to improving Home Healthcare! This book contains easy to understand models, templates, tips, and techniques developed and practiced by some of America's finest hospitals, universities, and home healthcare providers.

Get a jump start on the road to planning, managing, and providing excellent home healthcare with this unique book. Everything you need is right here. This is the first book to map the home healthcare delivery business practices from start to finish. Inside you will find a home healthcare reference model, a process optimization primer, documentation on all processes associated with home healthcare delivery, and instructions on how to locate the tools to modify these models to reflect your own organization. No healthcare organization involved in home heathcare can afford not to make use of this process model as a reference point for best practices.

This book will guide Home Healthcare providers in identifying areas needing improvement, manage improvement projects, implement the resulting changes, and develop matrices for continuous improvement. It will prove to be invaluable in the fastest growing segment of our rapidly changing healthcare system.

- Robert H. Fiser, Jr. M.D.

Start with Process Optimization in Home Healtcare and its supporting analysis tools to modify the model to reflect your organizaiton, then discover the answers to nagging questions such as:
  • How do we improve cost effectiveness without impairing quality care?
  • How much does it really cost us to provide care?
  • How do we define and measure outcomes?
  • How can we stay ahead of the regulatory curve?
This book features:
  • The Process Optimization in Home Healthcare Model attributed with cost, time, and sequence data.
  • Data and Process Flow Models with integrated glossary.
  • Solutions for operational effectiveness.
  • Templates for incorporation of best practices.
  • Tips for leading change efforts in your healthcare organization.
  • WizdomWorks!TM and DataWorks!TM Viewers.
Learn how to:
  • Develop process improvement goals in half the time.
  • Test and evaluate improvement plans before you implement them.
  • Guide your team through a successful process improvement project from start to finish.
  • Easily identify outcome metrics and enterprise requirements.
  • Convert process models to application code.
  • Maximize operational effectiveness.
  • Read, use, and develop activity models.
Wizdom Systems, Inc. has worked with healthcare industry professionals in the areas of HL7, home healthcare, ICE-Patient flow, medical logistics, healthcare insurance services, small physician practice, and data flow among others. The model in this book is a result of Wizdom's work with the Health Informatics Initiative, the Institute of Advanced Science and Technology in Medicine at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the Maryland State Department of Health, and the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston.