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  • Healthcare Management Engineering In Action

    Applying Fundamental Management Principles for Operational Decision Making in Healthcare

    by Alexander Kolker ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The updated 2nd edition of Healthcare Management Engineering In Action in the Business Guides on the Go series provides a comprehensive exploration of healthcare management operations. Through a systematic comparison of predictive and analytic decision-making methodologies with traditional management approaches, the book employs case studies derived from real-world hospital and clinic scenarios. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Healthcare Management Engineering: What Does This Fancy Term Really Mean?

    The Use of Operations Management Methodology for Quantitative Decision-Making in Healthcare Settings

    by Alexander Kolker ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This Briefs Series book illustrates in depth a concept of healthcare management engineering and its domain for hospital and clinic operations. Predictive and analytic decision-making power of management engineering methodology is systematically compared to traditional management reasoning by applying both side by side to analyze 26 concrete operational management problems adapted from hospital and ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Management Engineering for Effective Healthcare Delivery: Principles and Applications

    Edited by Alexander Kolker, Pierce Story ...
    Due to massive technological and medical advances in the life sciences (molecular genetics, biology, biochemistry, etc.), modern medicine is increasingly effective in treating individual patients, but little technological advancement has focused on advancing the healthcare infrastructure. Management Engineering for Effective Healthcare Delivery: Principles and Applications illustrates the power of ... Read more

    $278.99 CAD

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  • Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare Transformation

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  • The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Patient Empowerment

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  • Obamacare: What's in It for Me?

    What Everyone Needs to Know About the Affordable Care Act

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