Management engineering for effective healthcare delivery
Subtitle: principles and applications
By: Alexander Kolker and Pierce Story, [editors]
Publisher: Medical Information Science Reference
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hershey, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9781609608729; 9781609608736; 9781609608743
Subjects: Practice Management; Organizational Models; Delivery of Health Care; Organization & administration; Decision Making; Health services administration; Leadership; Health Services Administration; Medical care; Decision making
Description: "This book illustrates the power of management engineering for quantitative managerial decision-making in healthcare settings, that assists in predicting performance and/or real resource requirements and allowing decision-makers to be truly proactive rather than reactive"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-467) and index.
Table of contents: title: Efficient managerial decision-making in healthcare settings: examples and fundamental principles; title: Dynamic capacity management (DCAMM) in a hospital setting; title: Simulation modeling of healthcare delivery; title: Simulation applications in a healthcare setting; title: Modeling clinical engineering activities to support healthcare technology management; title: Intensive care unit operational modeling and analysis; title: Human-centered systems engineering: managing stakeholder dissonance in healthcare delivery; title: Enabling real-time management and visibility with RFID; title: Healthcare delivery as a service system: barriers to co-production and implications of healthcare reform; title: Using simulation to design and improve an outpatient procedure center; title: Reducing consultation waiting time and overtime in outpatient clinic: challenges and solutions; title: Reducing patient waiting time at an ambulatory surgical center; title: Scheduling healthcare systems: theory and applications; title: Appointment order outpatient scheduling system with consideration of ancillary services and overbooking policy to improve outpatient experience; title: Electronic health record adoption, considerations, and future direction; title: Electronic medical records (EMR): issues and implementation perspectives.