Healthcare Operations Management Through Use of Simulation
Published on 9. February 2012
210 pages
978-1-78190-612-5 (ISBN)
Description
Over the past decades healthcare organisations have grown in size and complexity and healthcare costs have outpaced economic growth. In countries where healthcare is publicly-funded, increasing costs have traditionally meant a rise in the healthcare budgets in real terms; however, the ongoing global financial and economic crisis (2007-present) has had spending implications on governmental budgets for public resources in several countries. This apparent contradiction - "e;provide better service at a lesser cost"e; - which may last for years to come therefore necessitates the careful use of the allocated healthcare budgets through better and more informed decision making. The JEIM Special ebook on Healthcare Operations Management focuses on one particular decision support technique, namely, Simulation. The technique can be used by healthcare stakeholders to model a system of interest, experiment with various operational scenarios and to get advice on how to make the best possible use of public money.
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Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS 1
- Editorial review board
- Editorial 1
- The adoption of ICT in project-based and traditional organizations
- Deciding the level of information systems outsourcing
- Factors affecting ERP system implementation effectiveness
- Retrieving relevant information: traditional file systems versus tagging
- CONTENTS 2
- Editorial 2
- Interoperability adoption among government and corporate portals in India: a study
- A process approach to distribution channel re-engineering
- The intellectual structure of the supply chain management discipline
- Organizing for post-implementation ERP
- Enablers and inhibitors of advanced information technologies adoption by SMEs
