Better Healthcare Through Math: Bending The Access And Cost Curves - Hardcover

Agrawal, Sanjeev; Giridharadas, Mohan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1950863344 ISBN 13: 9781950863341

Publisher: Forbes Books, 2020

Synopsis

GETTING A DOCTOR’S APPOINTMENT SHOULDN’T BE HARDER THAN BOOKING A VACATION
The US healthcare system excels in research, innovation, and clinical care, but is failing to keep up with the operational challenges of the digital age. Today’s healthcare organizations face immense financial challenges, and their most valuable resources―people, rooms, and equipment―are being used inefficiently.
The result? Long wait times for patients, overstressed staff, underused assets, and poor ROI for organizations.
Why do health systems struggle with optimization? The fundamental problem is one of matching an unpredictable demand for services with a constrained supply. The math being used to solve this problem is a holdover from the paper-and-pencil era.
In Better Healthcare Through Math, authors Mohan Giridharadas and Sanjeev Agrawal show you that there is a better way. Healthcare systems can harness the power of sophisticated, analytics-driven mathematics to optimize the matching of supply and demand. By upgrading to software systems built on better math, they can enable staff to make data-based decisions to flatten peaks of demand and create smoother patient flow.

About this title

About the Authors

SANJEEV AGRAWAL is President of LeanTaaS, a Silicon Valley-based innovator of predictive analytics solutions to healthcare’s biggest operational challenges. He and his team work closely with hundredss of leading healthcare institutions across the country. Earlier in his career Sanjeev was Google’s first head of product marketing and had leadership roles at three successful startups: CEO of Aloqa, a mobile push platform (acquired by Motorola); VP product and marketing at Tellme Networks (acquired by Microsoft); and as the founding CEO of Collegefeed (acquired by AfterCollege).

Sanjeev graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an EECS degree from MIT and along the way spent time at McKinsey & Co. and Cisco Systems. He is an avid squash player and has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top entrepreneurs innovating in healthcare.

MOHAN GIRIDHARADAS is the founder and CEO of LeanTaaS, a Silicon Valley-based innovator of predictive analytics solutions that help health systems improve their operational performance. LeanTaaS products have been deployed at a hundred health systems across the United States including 12 of the top 20 health systems. Prior to starting LeanTaaS, Mohan was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company where, in addition to helping dozens of client organizations with their operational excellence agenda, he led the Lean Manufacturing and Lean Service Operations practices in North America and the Asia Pacific region.

Mohan holds an MBA from Stanford University, an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a B-Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay. He and his wife have two grown daughters and live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their two dogs.

From the Back Cover

The principles described in this book are fundamental to transforming healthcare operations. Matching unpredictable demand and supply in any asset-intensive industry requires sophisticated predictive and prescriptive algorithms deployed at scale. Others--Fedex, UPS, Airlines, Waze, Amazon--are doing it, and so can we in healthcare!
Dr. Patrick Byrne, MBA
Chairman, Cleveland Clinic Head and Neck Institute

Healthcare leaders interested in digital transformation will benefit from reading this book. We all have to start using the sophisticated predictive and prescriptive models described in it to optimize access and contain costs.
Steve Hess
Chief Information Officer, UCHealth, Denver, Colorado

The concepts shared in this book show how innovative methods can transform healthcare operations in a way that allows the organization to evolve on a comfortable path while experiencing dramatic advancements.
Rebecca Kaul
Chief Innovation Officer, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Digital transformation is the next frontier for medicine and healthcare delivery. How does "math" fit in? How does AI provide the foundation for operational excellence and change? This highly readable book from two unique experts is a must read for healthcare leaders.
Dr. Gary E. Bisbee, Jr., Ph.D., MBA
Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus, The Health Management Academy

Edition details

• Publisher: Forbes Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1950863344
• ISBN 13: 9781950863341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240