Helping Soldiers Heal - (Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) by Jayakanth Srinivasan & Christopher Ivany (Hardcover)
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- 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.
- 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.
- 208 Pages
- Technology, Military Science
- Series Name: Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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"The book describes the transformation of the United States Army's mental healthcare delivery system from 'organized anarchy' into a learning mental healthcare system. It provides a systematic roadmap and templates that other healthcare systems, including non-military ones, can use to guide their own mental healthcare transformation efforts"--Book Synopsis
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.
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 X @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.
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