A Decision Support System for Health Care Services
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This article will provide guidelines for designing a comprehensive scheduling system in complex health care centers such as hospitals. The proposed decision support system ensures that each component of the scheduling system will be designed independently to fit an overall optimization criterion. Its advantages involve providing more flexibility to system design and implementation, simplifying the decision-making process, and empowering decision makers at the operational level. Key words: decision support systems, health care management, patient scheduling
Publication Name: Hospital Material Management Quarterly
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0192-2262
Year: 2001
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Benefits of Internet-Enabled Procurement
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This article provides case-study analysis of procurement environments before and after implementing Internet-enabled procurement processes. A holistic framework used in the analysis identifies all areas creating cost within the procurement environment. Examples of procurement environments, including total costs, are included. Specific technologies offered by select companies to facilitate Internet procurement are reviewed.
Publication Name: Hospital Material Management Quarterly
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0192-2262
Year: 2001
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An Outsourcing Approach to Personnel, Capital Equipment, and Inventory Management for Perfusion Services in Cardiovascular Surgery Programs
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Four case studies are presented to illustrate variations on the consolidation of personnel, equipment and disposable items into a single outsourcing agreement for the provision of perfusion services in open-heart and cardiovascular surgery to meet the needs of different hospital organizations. Keywords: cardiovascular surgery, outsourcing, perfusion services
Publication Name: Hospital Material Management Quarterly
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0192-2262
Year: 2001
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