How Physicians Can Fix Health Care: One Innovation at a Time - Soft Cover
Breakthrough the chaos that surrounds health care and harness the power to create positive change. That’s the message you’ll hear loud and clear in the insightful book.
Trimble takes his years of experience studying business innovation and applies them to health care for the first time. He says physicians on the front lines do indeed have the ability to make significant changes that will bring safer, more efficient and better health care to patients.
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You’ll learn how to formulate an innovative idea, solidify it and design a team to deploy it. Trimble cites real-life examples of how small innovations are improving health care across the country and explains how all physicians can achieve similar successes within any health care organization.
Heather Fork, MD, founding of Doctor’s Crossing is one of many health care leaders praising Trimble’s groundbreaking book: “At a time when many doctors are considering leaving medicine, Trimble offers a voice of hope and an innovative approach for how doctors can lead the way to a more collaborative, effective, and sustainable system.
About the author
Chris Trimble, a professor at Dartmouth, is an expert on innovation inside of established organizations. His most recent multi-year research effort focused on innovation in health care delivery.
In September of 2013, Chris published Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization, with co-author Vijay Govindarajan. Chris and Vijay also collaborated on the New York Times bestseller Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, which focuses on the specific challenge of innovating to propel growth in emerging markets, and How Stella Saved the Farm, a simple story that instigates productive conversations about what it really takes to make innovation happen.
Notable articles include the McKinsey Award winning "Stop the Innovation Wars" in the July-August 2010 Harvard Business Review, and "How GE is Disrupting Itself" in the October 2009 Harvard Business Review with Vijay Govindarajan and GE Chairman Jeff Immelt.
At Dartmouth, Chris teaches in the MBA, MPH, MD, and Master in Health Care Delivery Science programs. He has spoken all over the world and has advised a wide range of organizations including General Electric, Deere & Company, AT&T, eBay, Microsoft, Fidelity, Thomson-Reuters, and The New York Times Company.
Contents
- PART I FOUNDATIONS
- Chapter 1 The Power Is in Your Hands
- Chapter 2 Doctors and Dollars
- Chapter 3 The Gold Lies Just Beyond the Wall
- Chapter 4 Walk and Chew Gum
- PART II TOOLKIT
- Chapter 5 Solidify Your Idea
- Chapter 6 Design Your Team
- Chapter 7 Deploy Part-Time Team Members Carefully
- Chapter 8 Manage the Partnership
- Chapter 9 Recognize the Boundary Between Innovation and Change
- Chapter 10 Prove It Works
- PART III ACTION
- Chapter 11 Standardize and Delegate
- Chapter 12 Coordinate
- Chapter 13 Prevent
- Chapter 14 Improve Treatment Decisions
Words of praise
A roadmap for physician-innovators … this book simply could not be more timely.
Trimble is spot on again. We need to challenge and liberate physician-innovators and their teams to tackle the toughest problems in health care, including the proverbial elephant, costs. Restoring the physician leadership model can help attract and retain top talent and truly transform health care for all.
Trimble understands physicians … the way we are feeling and the obstacles we are facing. This is a clear, practical, and engaging guide to making innovation happen. Trimble’s work has been enormously helpful to me.
