Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Operations, Planning, and Control

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(2013), "Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Operations, Planning, and Control", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 26 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2013.06226eaa.014

Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Operations, Planning, and Control

Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Operations, Planning, and Control

Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 26, Issue 5

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John F. Kros and Evelyn BrownJossey BassJanuary 2013ISBN: 978-1-11-810977-9

Keywords: Improving Quality, Managing and Controlling Health Care, Process Improvement

This innovative text offers a thorough foundation in operations management, supply chain management and the strategic implementation of programs, techniques, and tools for reducing costs and improving quality in health care organizations. The authors incorporate the features and functions of spreadsheet software where appropriate in their coverage of supply chain strategy, process design and analysis of health care operations, managing health care operations quality, and planning and controlling health care operations.

Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management offers real-world examples to illustrate the most current concepts and techniques such as value stream mapping and Six Sigma. In addition, the authors clearly demonstrate how operations and process improvement relate to contemporary health care trends such as evidence-based medicine and pay-for-performance.

Contents include:

1. 1.

   “Preface.

2. 2.

   “The authors.

3. 3.

   “Strategy:”

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     “Health care operations and supply chain strategy”

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     “Financial aspects of health care operations and supply chain management.”

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     “Managerial accounting aspects of health care operations and supply chain management.”

4. 4.

   “Process design and analysis of health care operations”:

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     “Data and statistical tools for health care operations improvement”

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     “Problem solving and decision-making tools in health care operations”:

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     “Simulation.”

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     “Process improvement and patient flow.”

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     “Facility layout.”

5. 5.

   “Managing health care operations quality”

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     “Managing quality in a health care setting”.

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     “Quality control and improvement”.

6. 6.

   “Planning and controlling health care operations”:

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     “Lean concepts in health care”.

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     “Forecasting for health care management”.

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     “Project management”.

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     “Aggregate planning, scheduling, and capacity management in health care”.

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     “Inventory management”.

7. 7.

   “Index”.