Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management
Operations, Planning, and Control
John F. Kros, Evelyn C. Brown
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Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management
Operations, Planning, and Control
John F. Kros, Evelyn C. Brown
Información del libro
Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management
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 Microsoft Excel 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.
Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Managemen t contains:
- Leading edge concepts and techniques
- Real-life data and actual examples from health care settings to underscore the main concepts in the text
- Instruction in the use of Microsoft Excel for health care operations and supply side management
The book's numerous screen shots and detailed instructions guide the student through the use of Microsoft Excel's many functions and features.
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Información
PART I
STRATEGY
CHAPTER 1
HEALTH CARE OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY
- Understand why the management of operations and supply chains is important to the health care profession.
- Understand the role that purchasing, logistics, and vendor-managed inventory play in health care.
- Understand the meaning of efficient and effective operations and supply chain management.
- See how the management of operations and supply chains relates to health care.
- Understand the competitive dimensions of operations and supply chain strategy within health care.
- Know what measures are used to evaluate the operations and supply chain management function.
- Understand what the bullwhip effect is and how it applies to health care.