Health Care Operations and Supply Chain Management - Strategy,
Operations, Planning, and Control
Book description
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 Management 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.
John F. Kros, PhD, is a professor of marketing?and supply chain
management in the College of Business at East Carolina University in
Greenville, North Carolina.?He also is the coauthor of Statistics
for Health Care Professionals: Working with Excel.
Evelyn C. Brown, PhD, is a professor in the Department of
Engineering and Associate Dean for Research in the College of
Technology and Computer Science at East Carolina University,
Greenville, North Carolina.
