Operations management is increasingly a critical skill needed in today’s health care leader. Managing your organization’s complex interdisciplinary processes, labor and asset productivity, and operational performance involves quantitative and qualitative skills. Covering a range of topics from quality management to data analyses, Health Care Operations Management: A Systems Approach clearly explains the important concepts and skills necessary to lead a modern health care organization. Logically organized in four parts, Health Care Operations Management: A Systems Approach looks at operations, systems and financial management; methods for improving operations; analytical tools and technology; and health care supply chain. Thoroughly revised, the new Third Edition offers new content on health plan operations, use of information technology in operations management, and analytics – topics often overlooked in most health care operational management texts. Additional noteworthy updates include: • Expanded systems perspective that emphasizes the interconnection between the hospital and the health care system. • 4 new chapters cover health insurance plan operations (4), Six Sigma quality improvement (7), information technology (13) and statistical analysis (12) • Updated and expanded content on information technology including how to leverage existing information technology assets to improve operational performance. • Thoroughly revised chapter on supply chain management • New cases studies and end of chapter discussion questions and calculations challenge reader to apply concepts. • Practical guidance on analyzing operational performance using everyday management tools such as MS Excel.
✔ Author(s): James R. Langabeer II,Jeffrey Helton
✔ Title: Health Care Operations Management: A Systems Perspective
✔ Rating : 4.7 out of 5 base on (45 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1284194140
✔ ISBN-13: 9781284194142
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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