Healthcare Enterprise Reference Model

The healthcare industry faces ever increasing challenges and demands. Get a jump start on managing complexity with this unique book. Everything you need to improve your organziation is right here. This is the first book to map the improvement process from start to funish. Inside, you'll find a process improvement primer, a comprehensive model dscribing healthcare processes - from planning to paying - and the tools need to effect meaningful change in your own organization.

Start with The Healthcare Enterprise Reference Model and its supporting analysis tools, modify the model to reflect your organization, 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:	LEARN HOW TO:
Models of universal healthcare business practices	Develop process improvement goals in half the time
Integrated glossary with over 1000 entries	Test and evaluate improvement plans before you implement them
Templates for incorporating best practices	Guide your team through a successful process improvement project from start to finish
Tips for leading change efforts in your healthcare organization	Easily identify outcome metrics and enterprise requirements
Solutions for operational effectiveness	Convert process models to application code
Modeling and analysis theory and techniques	Maximize operational effectiveness
ProcessWorks!98 Viewer software and Healthcare Enterprise Reference Model CD Rom	Read, use, and develop activity models

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Wizdom Systems, Inc. is a leader in Business Process Reengineering and Knowledge management products and services. Founded in 1986, the company has worked with healthcare industry professionals in the areas of HL7, Home Health Care, ICE-Patient Flow, Medical Logistics, Healthcare Insurance Services, Small Physician Practice, and Data Flow. Wizdom is a member/advisor of the Koop Foundation's Health Informatics Initiative, an endeavor to build the fundamental architecture, methods and tools for a more universally accessible health informatics infrostructure.

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