This book offers a new perspective on improving healthcare that draws inspiration from sources as diverse as American healthcare history, Lean Six Sigma, patient experience, employee engagement, clinical microsystems, physician burnout, and industrial design thinking. This work focuses on the three value streams that form the foundation of all healthcare service processes: healthcare-worker value stream, patient value stream, and organizational process. The interaction of patients and healthcare workers in the context of these three value streams creates the meaningful experience that is essential to healing and to the success of healthcare organizations. Meaningful healthcare experience design guides the work of designing these value streams and improving them to promote experiences that are meaningful and healing for both patients and healthcare workers.

About the Author
Scott Goodwin, MA, MBA, DA, RN, CPHQ, LSSBB, has worked in healthcare for more than forty years beginning as a night shift ward clerk on a hospital patient care unit. He has twenty-five years of experience in senior quality leadership positions in for-profit, religious, community and critical access hospitals and extensive experience in healthcare quality consulting. He has designed and taught college graduate courses in healthcare quality, Lean and organizational ethics and has presented at national quality conferences. His doctoral dissertation is titled Healthcare Organizational Metaphors and the Implications for Leadership. He owns AWLG Healthcare Consulting, LLC. He is the author of Transition to 21st Century Healthcare: A Guide for Leaders and Quality Professionals (CRC Press 2016) and Mapping the Path to 21st Century Healthcare: The Ten Transitions Workbook (CRC Press 2016).


Book Information
ISBN 9781498726962
Author Scott Goodwin
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Productivity Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
Weight(grams) 748g