Management engineering for effective healthcare delivery : principles and applications / Alexander Kolker and Pierce Story, editors.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Hershey, PA : Medical Information Science Reference, [2012], ©2012.
Description
xxvi, 483 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

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    Summary note
    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 9781609608729 (hardcover)
    • 1609608720 (hardcover)
    • 9781609608736 (ebook)
    • 1609608739 (ebook)
    • 9781609608743 (print & perpetual access)
    • 1609608747 (print & perpetual access)
    LCCN
    2011022228
    OCLC
    739835730
    RCP
    C - S
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