- Description
Description
Helping Soldiers Heal tells the story of the US Army's transformation from a disparate collection of poorly standardized, largely disconnected clinics into one of the nation's leading mental health care systems. It is a step-by-step guidebook for military and civilian health care systems alike. Jayakanth Srinivasan and Christopher Ivany provide a unique insider-outsider perspective as key participants in the process, sharing how they confronted the challenges firsthand and helped craft and guide the unfolding change.
The Army's system was being overwhelmed with mental health problems among soldiers and their family members, impeding combat readiness. The key to the transformation was to apply the tenets of "learning" health care systems. Building a learning health care system is hard; building a learning mental health care system is even harder. As Helping Soldiers Heal recounts, the Army overcame the barriers to success, and its experience is full of lessons for any health care system seeking to transform.
Author: Jayakanth Srinivasan, Christopher Ivany
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 12/15/2021
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 8.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781501760501
ISBN10: 1501760505
BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Military Science
- Psychology | Mental Health
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
About the Author
Jayakanth Srinivasan is Research Associate Professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy. He is the coauthor of Beyond the Lean Revolution. Follow him on Twitter @jk_srini.
Colonel (Ret.) Christopher Ivany, a clinician and researcher, spearheaded the Army's transformation of its mental health care system between 2013 and 2017, headed innovation for the Defense Health Agency, and is now a senior executive with a civilian behavioral health system.
