BIBFRAME Work

Title

Injecting creative thinking into healthcare

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• McMahon, Barry P. (author )
• Coughlan, Paul (Professor of operations management) (author )

Subject

• Health facilities--Personnel management--Case studies (LCSH)
• Health services administration--Ireland--Case studies (LCSH)
• Creative thinking--Ireland--Case studies (LCSH)
• Medical innovations--Ireland--Case studies (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Case studies (LCGFT)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• DDC: 362.109415 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: RA971 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"The book sets out to inform a broad range of specialist and business professionals working in medicine and healthcare how creative thinking and design concepts can be used to innovate processes to ultimate provide an enhanced patient experience. It will outline these concepts as a primary means to identify, clarify and resolve some of the great and global challenges in healthcare related to optimum use of technology, healthcare delivery, process improvement and enhancement. It will demonstrate by example how some challenges from healthcare and other industries were resolved and can be faced based on referenced cases and examples including from the authors' own experiences. It will also emphasize the value of learning from failure and from mistakes. For the reader who already has a leaning towards unconventional approaches to solving healthcare problems, it will provide alternative approaches to optimizing team inputs and demonstrate smart ways to engage a wider network of contributors. It will be an ideal resource for all working in medicine and healthcare, from managers, nurses, doctors, administrators, executives, and allied health professionals to medical engineers, medical physicists, medical scientists and medical product developers"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The opportunity and challenge -- Understanding creative thinking, design and innovation -- Developing the potential of healthcare professionals -- Understanding multifaceted problems and challenges in healthcare and setting about solving them -- Understanding creative confidence, design and innovation -- Where do mindset and climate fit? -- Creating an environment for creative thinking, design and innovation -- Putting it all together - how might you move your healthcare setting towards an innovation culture and mindset?.

Authorized Access Point

McMahon, Barry P. Injecting creative thinking into healthcare

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:12:20.107878+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23976901

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• Date: 2026-09-11
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