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Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection)

By: Brett E. Trusko,Carolyn Pexton,Praveen K. Gupta,Jim Harrington,Douglas A. Perednia,Jim Champy,Harry Greenspun

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Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection)

By: Brett E. Trusko,Carolyn Pexton,Praveen K. Gupta,Jim Harrington,Douglas A. Perednia,Jim Champy,Harry Greenspun

A brand new collection of state-of-the-art insights into transforming healthcare, from world-renowned experts and practitioners… now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! Making American healthcare work: 3 new eBooks get past ideology to deliver real solutions! Even after Obamacare, America’s healthcare system is unsustainable and headed towards disaster. These three eBooks offer real solutions, not sterile ideology. In Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and Save Trillions, leading healthcare expert and entrepreneur Douglas A. Perednia identifies the breathtaking complexity and specific inefficiencies that are driving the healthcare system towards collapse, and presents a new solution that protects patient and physician freedom, covers everyone, and won’t bankrupt America. Perednia shows how to design a far simpler system: one that delivers care to everyone by drawing on the best of both market efficiency and public "universality" — and is backed with detailed logic and objective calculations. Next, in Improving Healthcare Quality and Cost with Six Sigma, four leading experts introduce Six Sigma from the standpoint of the healthcare professional, showing exactly how to implement it successfully in real-world environments. The first 100% hands-on, start-to-finish blueprint for succeeding with Six Sigma in healthcare, this book covers every facet of Six Sigma in healthcare, demonstrating its use through examples and case studies from every area of the hospital: clinical, radiology, surgery, ICU, cardiovascular, laboratories, emergency, trauma, administrative services, staffing, billing, cafeteria, even central supply. Finally, in Reengineering Healthcare: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Healthcare Delivery JimChampy (“Reengineering the Corporation”) and Dr. Harry Greenspun show how reengineering methodologies can deliver breakthrough performance and efficiency improvements both within individual healthcare organizations and throughout the entire system, eliminating much of the 40%+ of U.S. healthcare costs now dedicated to administration. They demonstrate how reengineering can refocus investments on aligning quality and providing accessible care for millions more people. From world-renowned healthcare management experts Dr. Doug Perednia, Praveen Gupta, Brett E. Trusko, Carolyn Pexton, H. James Harrington, Jim Champy, and Harry Greenspun, M.D.

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0133115100

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9780133115109

Nothing Beats Luck

By: Harry Brooks

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Nothing Beats Luck

By: Harry Brooks

Nothing Beats Luck takes the reader on a journey from the financial district of New York to the corrupt, mafia-infested city of Chicago and then finally to Las Vegas. You will meet all types of colorful characters, some who totally believe in luck, and then some like BJ, who has made a fortune on both Wall Street and in sports-betting, who does not believe in luck. Nothing Beats Luck is a story about people and their hopes and dreams as much as it is about Las Vegas and organized crime. Endorsements: “Brooks has done it again. He is able to develop colorful fictional characters, while at the same time never losing his sense of humor” Sam McKeel, former Chairman and Publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News, and former President, CEO, & Publisher of The Chicago Sun-Times “Brooks has the uncanny ability to weave his Philadelphia experiences of real people, places, and events into an exciting tale of fiction” Judge Lisle B. Tinkler, Retired.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664150560

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9781664150560

Everybody Does Business

By: Harry Brooks

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Everybody Does Business

By: Harry Brooks

Harry was born and raised in Philadelphia. He always had a penchant for writing, and during his business career, he was a frequent contributor to both trade and financial publications. After retiring from his business in 1989, he wrote his first novel. Since then, he has written five other novels and one unproduced screenplay. He presently writes for a local monthly publication. Harry and his wife live in suburban Philadelphia. Praise for Harry Brooks Novel A Family Secret Im always fascinated at the way a book translates into a film, but the more I get into this one, the more it becomes a living thing. Things begin to play on multiple levels, characters take on different depth and dimension, and scenes create and recreate themselves Yabo Yabionsky Screenwriter/Director Hollywood, California You cannot be neutral about the characters in Harry Brooks novels. You love them, hate them, wish them away, or want more of them. Having worked with many novelists over the past fifteen years, I can honestly say Harry Brooks has his own style. He is a very good writer. Jay Berger Circulation Management Associates Springfield, Massachusetts

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1483675254

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9781483675251

All In

By: Harry Brooks

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All In

By: Harry Brooks

Xlibris website book description Although the term All In is usually used when a poker player bets all of his chips, the author has very cleverly applied the term to the actions of PJ Gould, in his quest for revenge. All In, is a fast moving novel that takes the reader on an exciting journey from the Middle East, through the cocaine jungle of Columbia South America, then to Las Vegas and ends up in New York in the boardroom of one of the largest companies in the United States. It is the story of PJ Gould, the adopted son of a middle class Jewish family from Philadelphia. When he learns he has a twin brother, Walter, who has been raised by the Lippincotts, one of the countries richest families in America, he realizes but for the luck of the draw, their situations could have been reversed. Although Walter Lippincott invites his twin brother to join him in the family business, PJ chooses instead to visit Israel after graduating from college. It is there he discovers his Judaism, and enlists in the Sayeret Matkal, Israels elite and most celebrated commando unit. The Sayeret Matkal is comparable to the US militarys Delta Force and is responsible for some of Israels high profile security missions. They also conduct highly sensitive assassinations, sabotage, and psychological warfare projects. PJ became an expert in all of these. He earned the reputation of the best in the business, and after leaving the Sayeret Matkal, he was recruited by the CIA. After fifteen years of performing political assassinations, he finally reached a point when he no longer wished to continue in the killing business. That was when he retired and moved to Las Vegas ,where he became a high stakes poker player. He played the game of poker the same way he lived his life. When he attempted to do something, he was all in. He never did anything half hearted. In poker, all in means you could be betting all of your money on the turn of a card. When he played this way, sometimes he won with the best hand. Other times he would win by bluffing the other players. After his twin brother and girlfriend are murdered gangland style, PJ vows revenge. Then when the Las Vegas police department warns him not to get involved, he explains to them that he intends to goAll In. There is no way they can prevent him from taking revenge. In life like in poker, sometime, you have to go ..all in. The story takes the reader on a roller coaster ride from Las Vegas to New York, and from there to Chicago and back. You will meet Anita, his brothers widow, Joey Sconsi a would be wise guy, and Joseph Cantelli, an old world Mafia Don. You will be introduced to Tozzi, the hit man, and Sid Mastro, the unlucky ex-con who finds himself in the middle of an ill conceived murder plot. The characters will jump off the page and keep you wondering what will happen next. All In is a must read.

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1469120232

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The Good Fight

Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington

By: Harry Reid,Mark Warren

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The Good Fight

Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington

By: Harry Reid,Mark Warren

After a childhood of shocking poverty, Harry Reid completed law school, working as a policeman to pay his way. He faced death threats as the head of the Nevada Gaming Commission trying to clean up Las Vegas. Eventually he rose to become Senate Majority Leader in Washington-without ever forgetting the mining town he came from, or the battles he fought along the way. This is that rare book by a politician that is more than a glorified press release. It is an extraordinary American story-told in a voice that is flinty, real, and filled with passion.

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1440637113

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9781440637117

Song of My Life

A Memoir

By: Harry Mark Petrakis

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Song of My Life

A Memoir

By: Harry Mark Petrakis

With the discipline of a surgeon performing a critical operation, acclaimed storyteller Harry Mark Petrakis strips away layers of his nine decades of life to expose the blood and bone of a human being in his third memoir and twenty-fifth book, Song of My Life. Petrakis is unsparing in exposing his own flaws, from a youthful gambling addiction, to the enormous lie of his military draft, to a midlife suicidal depression. Yet he is compassionate in depicting the foibles of others around him. Petrakis writes with love about his parents and five siblings, with nostalgia as he describes the Greek neighborhoods and cramped Chicago apartments of his childhood, and with deep affection for his wife and sons as he recalls with candor, comedy, and charity a writer's long, fully-lived life. Petrakis recounts the near-fatal childhood illness, which confined him to bed for two years and, through hours of reading during the day and night, nurtured his imagination and compulsion toward storytelling. A high school dropout, Petrakis also recalls his work journey in the steel mills, railroad depots, and shabby diners of the city. There is farce and comedy in the pages as he describes the intricate framework of lies that drove his courtship of Diana, who has been his wife of sixty-nine loving years. Petrakis shares his struggles for over a decade to write and publish and finally, poignantly describes the matchless instant when he holds his first published book in his hands. The chapters on his experiences in Hollywood where he had gone to write the screenplay of his best-selling novel A Dream of Kings are as revealing of the machinations and egos of moviemaking as any Oliver Stone documentary. Petrakis's individual story, as fraught with drama and revelation as the adventures of Odysseus, comes to an elegiac conclusion when, at the age of ninety, he ruminates on his life and its approaching end. With a profound and searing honesty, this self-exploration of a solitary writer's life helps us understand our own existences and the tapestry of lives connecting us together in our shared human journey.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611175038

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9781611175035

Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology

By: Harry Henderson

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Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology

By: Harry Henderson

Presents an illustrated A-Z encyclopedia containing approximately 600 entries on computer and technology related topics.

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1438110030

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9781438110035

Warman's Country Antiques and Collectibles

By: Dana Gehman Morykan,Harry L. Rinker

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Warman's Country Antiques and Collectibles

By: Dana Gehman Morykan,Harry L. Rinker

Collectors are getting back to their country roots to collect the items that their grandparents and great-grandparents used daily. This book features listings, photos and current values on country stoneware, kitchen items, folk art, furniture, glass, lighting, textiles, wood, and metal items.

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0870696998

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9780870696992

Reengineering Health Care

A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery

By: James Champy,Harry Greenspun

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Reengineering Health Care

A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery

By: James Champy,Harry Greenspun

Reengineering Health Care" gets to the core of transforming our current system by advocating the widespread use of IT, eliminating inefficient practices, and keeping the system focused on a healthy individual and not on a broken process.""--Newt Gingrich, Founder of the Center for Health Transformation, and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives ""This book is a prescription for streamlining health care. Using the techniques that have successfully transformed business into customer-focused and efficient organizations, the authors provide a step-by-step approach to improving health care processes, guiding health care into the next generation of Lean delivery systems.""--Dr. John Halamka, Chief Information Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ""In health care, we tend to inundate our people with information, rather than enabling them to have insights. This concise guide will resonate with both senior and front-line managers who know they're engaged in unproductive work. They will see that reengineering is not overly difficult and can enable them to improve patient care and efficiency.""--Trevor Fetter, President and CEO, Tenet Health Corporation, and Trustee, Federation of American Hospitals ""It isn't reform that will fix our ailing health care system, its reengineering. Champy and Greenspun highlight organizations that have transformed, and reinvented, themselves by reengineering care delivery-they've lowered costs, improved care quality and patient safety, and increased the satisfaction of those giving and receiving care. Every clinician, hospital executive, and politician should read this book.""--Bill Crounse, M.D., Senior Director, Worldwide Health, Microsoft Corporation ""Implement health care technology, and you have better health care tools; reengineer with a focus on technology, process, and people, and you have a better health care system. This straightforward guide shows how to transform health care to maximize quality, safety, convenience, and impact the cost of delivery. No one can read this book and not feel a profound call to action.""--H. Stephen Lieber, CAE, President & CEO, HIMSS 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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0137052650

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Real Health Care Reform

Will Physicians Change?

By: . Jim,James Champy

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Real Health Care Reform

Will Physicians Change?

By: . Jim,James Champy

Physicians are central to true health care reform that saves lives and lowers costs. Will they lead? Yes! If you liked this Short, you might also like Reengineering Health Care: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery by Jim Champy and Dr. Harry Greenspun (ISBN: 978-0-13-705265-3)"--Resource description page.

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Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection)

By: Brett E. Trusko,Carolyn Pexton,Praveen K. Gupta,Jim Harrington,Douglas A. Perednia,Jim Champy,Harry Greenspun

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Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection)

By: Brett E. Trusko,Carolyn Pexton,Praveen K. Gupta,Jim Harrington,Douglas A. Perednia,Jim Champy,Harry Greenspun

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Averting the Financial Collapse of Our Health Care "system"

By: . Jim,James Champy

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Averting the Financial Collapse of Our Health Care "system"

By: . Jim,James Champy

Why health care must be systematically reengineered--and how to build a system that's both financially stable and delivers far better care! If you liked this Short, you might also like Reengineering Health Care: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery by Jim Champy and Dr. Harry Greenspun (ISBN: 978-0-13-705265-3)"--Resource description page.

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Book's by Harry Greenspun

Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection)

Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection)

Nothing Beats Luck

Nothing Beats Luck

Everybody Does Business

Everybody Does Business

All In

All In

The Good Fight

The Good Fight

Song of My Life

Song of My Life

Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology

Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology

Warman's Country Antiques and Collectibles

Warman's Country Antiques and Collectibles

Reengineering Health Care

Reengineering Health Care

Real Health Care Reform

Real Health Care Reform

Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection)

Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection)

Averting the Financial Collapse of Our Health Care "system"

Averting the Financial Collapse of Our Health Care "system"

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