Amidst a deepening crisis in U.S. health care, Advanced Performance Improvement in Health Care provides a results-oriented approach to rehabilitating an ailing healthcare system. With his innovative, instructive strategies, Lighter offers a welcome road map to guide meaningful change in the industry and to equip healthcare managers to meet 21st century challenges. Advanced Performance Improvement in Health Care: Principles and Methods provides healthcare educators, leaders, and clinicians with the specific knowledge and tools vital for creating and advocating for quality-centric, next-generation healthcare organizations. This unique compilation of management, analytical, and statistical methods and techniques serves as a comprehensive guide to harnessing today s technology and developing a culture of quality that delivers sustainable, quantifiable value in healthcare organizations: Offers a comprehensive methodology for improving quality in healthcare organizations; Details a Process Analysis Toolkit with dozens of proven techniques; Illustrated with easy-to-follow diagrams and flow charts; Provides best practices for measuring value and performance; Includes extensive discussion of medical informatics, Lean, Six-Sigma, and more.