- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc; First Printing edition (25 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0738207535
- ISBN-13: 978-0738207537
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 15.7 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,480,620 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From the Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a manifesto for integrated health care. Dr. David Lawrence has had a long and distinguished career in medicine, crowned by his current role as CEO and Chairman of Kaiser Permanente, the largest non-profit healthcare system in the world and the leader in integrated medical care. A sophisticated, team-based approach that draws on the strengths of the healthcare organization as well as on community resources, integrated care is a most cost-efficient healthcare business model. It also gives patients that all-important sense of control over their conditions and provides the kind of care they can navigate and trust: personal, safe, cohesive, and effective. In From Chaos to Care, Dr. Lawrence shares his unique medical and leadership perspective, outlining a blueprint for lasting and healthy change for the business of health care. Rich with stories of the ways in which integrated, team-based care succeeds on both the human and organizational fronts, this book is an urgent manifesto for the implementation of high-quality and cost-effective health care for all. For doctors and insurers, specialists and healthcare administrators alike, From Chaos to Care illuminates the path to the future of American medical care.
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David Lawrence, M.D., MPH, has been recognized as the Outstanding Alumnus of both the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Un iversity of Washington, and the College of Medicin e, University of Kentucky. A member of the Medical Honorary Society and the National Academy of Scie nces, he has been the CEO and Chairman of Kaiser P ermanente for ten years, a role that allows him to speak regularly to healthcare organizations and p olicy makers internationally. He lives in Oakland, California.
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Many minds make good patient care
10 April 2007
Format:Paperback
This is an excellent book on the state of the healthcare system and provides significant recommendations to enhance the results of patient care. The author referring to medicine states, "It conducts its business with systems so archaic and incentives so perverse that the nation's education system looks almost rational by comparison." Doctor Lawrence has a well structured approach to address the issues based on collaboration of the medical, nursing team, allied healthcare workers, administrative personnel, and tools to back them up. Something most would have thought would have been in place, but to those you know healthcare is seldom available. It is said, "many hands make for a light load" like wise, "many minds make good patient care."
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Measuring from chaos to care
14 Sep 2004
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The author eloquently describes problems faced by patients seeking care in the current environment. It is a snapshot of the quality movement in healthcare. Like a work of art, what is also interesting is what is not there or the negative spaces. A very wise man once said 'if you can't measure it you can't control it'. The word measurement is sadly missing from the index and table of contents. Measurement is central to quality improvement. Clinical laboratories have been required to measure, analyze and track the quality of their work for over 30 years. Many clinical labs have used statistical process control charts, control materials, standards etc. for decades. However, they have not routinely sought to identify root causes and corrective actions. Perhaps there will be a sequel with numerous valid measures of healthcare quality, more detailed examples of six sigma and possibly other lessons from Deming and Juran.
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