Processes required to manage an effective health care organization.
Focusing on U.S. health care delivery systems, how to manage in health care organizations including management processes organizational structures and types of governance and management issues of U.S.-based health care delivery systems.
Indeed, a lack of awareness about management science (MS) and operations management (OM) principles is one of the root causes of inferior healthcare leaders' management decisions for delivery of care, such as new/old lines of service, staffing and scheduling, financial and equipment allocation, bed capacity, etc.
Traditional OM is based on past experience, intuition, educated guesses, simple linear projections with the average values of input variables. In contrast, management science is based on comparative outcomes of validated simulation models of organizations' functioning and their operations. Traditional management does not have a proper means to take into account the inevitable process variability, uncertainty, scale, and interconnections that are critical for making sustainable and justified managerial decisions. The fundamentals of management science for healthcare organizations have been developed. They play a role of the laws of physics in natural sciences. While the laws of physics cannot be violated, management science principles can and are frequently violated. Unfortunately, many organizations pay a heavy price for doing so. Thus, the problem is not a lack of knowledge of the MS fundamentals and methods. The problem is a dearth of the practical application of this knowledge in the real hospital and clinic settings.
You may find useful, e.g. the following resources for details:
1. Kolker, A. Springer_Briefs series in Healthcare Management & Economics "Healthcare Management Engineering: What Does This Fancy Term Really Mean? The Use of Operations Management in Healthcare Settings". NY, 2012
http://www.springer.com/public+health/book/978-1-4614-2067-5
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1461420679/ref=s9_simh_bw_p14_d0_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd_r=0PATH0Z844EPND22AWTQ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1321581422&pf_rd_i=283155
2. Hopp, W., & Lovejoy, W. (2013). Hospital operations: Principles of high efficiency health care. New York: FT Press.
3. Reid, P., Compton, W, Grossman, J., Fanjiang, G., Eds., (2005). Building A Better Delivery System: A new Engineering / Healthcare Partnership. National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC. The National Academy Press
The following link may helps
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030538316
Kindly, feel free to take a look.
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