Managing Care: Leading Clinical Change and Transforming Healthcare

Healthcare systems worldwide are swamped with demand, short of resources, and ill-equipped to respond to global health crises like COVID-19. This book is a guide for reforming healthcare delivery.

The way we organize care matters, and the people best positioned to drive this are the clinicians who deliver care. The book offers a framework for transforming healthcare delivery that covers operational design, change management, long-term learning, and organizational environment. It describes the work of leading local operational change; identifies key decisions to be made, actions to be taken, and factors that must be taken into account; and gives clinicians the tools and perspectives they need to lead change.

The challenge of modern healthcare is to develop better organizations capable of delivering compassionate and individualized care on a grand scale while preserving the personal relationship between clinician and patient and the quality of care at the ward, operating room, clinic, or practice. Informed by extensive research and experience with systems all over the world, Richard Bohmer shows how organizations may transform by deploying a new workforce of clinical change leaders and how clinicians can take greater control over their own working environments.

Author: Richard M. J. Bohmer
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 05/18/2021
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781523093540
ISBN10: 1523093544
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Industries | Healthcare

About the Author
Richard M. J. Bohmer is a New Zealand-educated doctor and a management academic. He has practiced as a hospital and primary physician. He was the Clinical Director for Quality Improvement at Massachusetts General Hospital and then spent 18 years on the faculty of Harvard Business School. He has published in the medical and management literature and is the author of Designing Care. Dr. Bohmer currently works independently with numerous hospitals and health authorities around the world to help them establish clinical leadership and management models and to improve their performance.