Operations Management in Healthcare: Strategy and Practice - Softcover

Karuppan, Corinne M.; Dunlap, Nancy E.; Waldrum, Michael R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826126529 ISBN 13: 9780826126528

Publisher: Springer Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Describing how to build a competitive edge by developing superior operations, this comprehensive, practice-oriented text illustrates how healthcare organisations can gain a competitive edge through superior operations – and demonstrates how to achieve them. Underscoring the importance of a strategic perspective, the book describes how to attain excellence in the four competitive priorities: quality, cost, delivery, and flexibility. The competitive priorities are interrelated, with excellent quality laying the foundation for performance in the other competitive priorities, and with targeted improvement initiatives having synergistic effects. The text stresses the benefits of aligning the entire operations system within the parameters of a business strategy. It equips students with a conceptual mental model of healthcare operations in which all concepts and tools fit together logically.

With a hands-on approach, the book clearly demonstrates the “how-tos” of effectively managing a healthcare organisation. It describes how to negotiate the different perspectives of clinicians and administrators by offering a common platform for building competitive advantage. To bring the cultural context of a healthcare organisation to life, the book engages students with a series of short vignettes of a fictitious healthcare organisation as it strives to achieve the status of a highly reliable organisation.

Integrated throughout are a variety of tools and quantitative techniques with step-by-step instructions to assist in problem solving and process improvements. Also included are mind maps linking competitive priorities and concepts, quick-reference icons, dashboards displaying measurement and process tracking, and boxed features. Several project ideas, team assignments, and creative thinking exercises are proposed. A comprehensive Instructor Packet and online tutorials further enhance the book’s outstanding value.

Key Features:

• Includes mind maps to connect competitive priorities, concepts, and tools.
• Provides an extensive tool kit for problem solving and process improvements.
• Presents icons throughout the text to emphasise competitive priorities and tool coverage.
• Emphasises measurement with dashboards and includes data files for statistical process control, queuing, and simulation.
• Demonstrates human dynamics and organizational challenges through realistic vignettes.
• Presents boxed features of frequently asked questions and real-world implementations of concepts.
• Provides comprehensive Instructor Packet and online tutorials.

About this title

About the Author

Corinne M. Karuppan, PhD, CPIM, is Professor of Operations Management at Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. Her teaching responsibilities include Quality Measurement and Management in Healthcare, Business Process Management, and Management Science.

Nancy E. Dunlap, MD, PhD, MBA, is a Professor of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia and Physician-in-Residence with the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices in Washington, DC, USA.

Michael R. Waldrum, MD, MSC, MBA, is CEO of Vidant Health, an eight-hospital integrated system affiliated with East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0826126529
• ISBN 13: 9780826126528
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 603