Accountability Through Measurement: A Global Healthcare Imperative looks at the need for healthcare organizations to become more accountable for their performance. The book discusses the necessary mindset, structures, tools, and communication modes needed for healthcare to be accountable to itself, as well as to external audiences, about its own performance. At the heart of this is the need for a greater degree of disclosure, which in turn requires rigorous methods of measurement. This book places the requirement of disclosure at the center of the accountability mandate and presents concrete ways in which performance can be measured, analyzed, communicated, and used toward performance improvement. This approach does not place the responsibility of accountability on the providers only but makes it a joint effort between the providers and recipients.
Part 1 : The Product Development Value Proposition
Chapter 1. : Why Focus on Product Development?
Chapter 2. : Lean Fundamentals
Chapter 3. : Applying Lean Principles to Product Development
Part 2 : Launching Lean Product Development
Chapter 4. : Conducting Baseline Assessment
Chapter 5. : A Baseline Assessment Case Study
Part 3 : Stabilizing the Product Development Process
Chapter 6. : Resource and Workload Management
Chapter 7. : Implementing a Reuse Strategy
Chapter 8. : Building the Infrastructure for Product Development
Part 4 : Streamlining the Product Development Process
Chapter 9. : Selecting the Appropriate Design Strategy
Chapter 10. : Software Tools for Product Development
Chapter 11. : Integrating the Supply Chain in the Product Development Process
Part 5 : Quality in the Product Development Process
Chapter 12. : Instituting a Manufacturing Process Control Program
Chapter 13. : Implementing Design for Six Sigma
Chapter 14. : Flow and Cell Design for Product Development
Conclusion
Appendix A Glossary
References
