Management engineering for effective healthcare delivery [electronic resource] : principles and applications / Alexander Kolker and Pierce Story, editors.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.Description: electronic texts (434 p.) : ill., digital filesISBN:- 9781609608736 (ebook)
- Health services administration -- Decision making
- Medical care
- Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration
- Decision Making
- Health Services Administration
- Leadership
- Models, Organizational
- Practice Management -- organization & administration
- Dynamic capacity management
- EHR and EMR
- Healthcare management engineering
- Intensive care unit operational modeling
- Outlier management
- Patient flow
- Probabilistic resource optimization
- Radio frequency identification
- Simulation modeling
- Stakeholder dissonance
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- RA971 .M34237 2011e
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- Also available in print.
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references.
Efficient managerial decision-making in healthcare settings : examples and fundamental principles -- Dynamic capacity management (DCAMM) in a hospital setting -- Simulation modeling of healthcare delivery -- Simulation applications in a healthcare setting -- Modeling clinical engineering activities to support healthcare technology management -- Intensive care unit operational modeling and analysis -- Human-centered systems engineering : managing stakeholder dissonance in healthcare delivery -- Enabling real-time management and visibility with RFID -- Healthcare delivery as a service system : barriers to co-production and implications of healthcare reform -- Using simulation to design and improve an outpatient procedure center -- Reducing consultation waiting time and overtime in outpatient clinic : challenges and solutions -- Reducing patient waiting time at an ambulatory surgical center -- Scheduling healthcare systems : theory and applications -- Appointment order outpatient scheduling system with consideration of ancillary services and overbooking policy to improve outpatient experience -- Electronic health record adoption, considerations, and future direction -- Electronic medical records (EMR) : issues and implementation perspectives.
Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed August 8, 2011).