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Title: Healthcare Management Engineering in Action.

Subtitle: Applying Fundamental Management Principles for Operational Decision Making in Healthcare

Author: Alexander Kolker

Springer Nature-Cham, Switzerland AG, 2024
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53663-2
Hardcover: ISBN978-3-031-53662-5 Published: 24 May 2024
eBook:  ISBN978-3-031-53663-2Published: 23 May 2024
The link: Healthcare Management Engineering In Action

The book provides a novel and unique perspective of OR/MS applications in healthcare operation management using fundamental management principles that play a role of the laws of physics in science. This innovative approach forms a scalable framework for developing sustainable hospital operation management solutions in a highly variable and intertwined environment with constrained resources. Variable patient demand and limited supply of human, financial, and material resources pose significant operation management challenges such as patient flow, bed and operating room capacity, staffing & scheduling, overcrowding, and excessive patient wait time. Traditional operation management lacks a means of capturing the inevitable process variability and foreseeing the response of one unit to the change in another unit that leads to unintended consequences. 

The book's unique feature is that it applies OR/MS side-by-side with traditional methods to demonstrate why the former consistently outperforms the latter.

The book is written in a quite engaging style. It frequently uses the Socratic method of posing problems and challenging the readers to think from multiple angles about how to approach them. The writing style avoids a dry academic presentation that is not helpful for the book's target audience: hospital administrators and physician leadership.

The preface and contents are attached.

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