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This book builds on a managerial segmentation of healthcare based on fundamental demand-supply constellations. Demand can be classified with the variables urgency, severity, and randomness. Supply is constrained by medical technology (accuracy of diagnostics, efficacy of therapies), patient health b...
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CRC Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Boca Raton, FL : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This book builds on a managerial segmentation of healthcare based on fundamental demand-supply constellations. Demand can be classified with the variables urgency, severity, and randomness. Supply is constrained by medical technology (accuracy of diagnostics, efficacy of therapies), patient health behavior (co-creation of health), and resource availability. Out of this emerge seven demand-supply-based operational types (DSO): prevention, emergencies, one-visit, electives, cure, care, and projects. Each of these have distinct managerial characteristics, such as time-perspective, level of co-c |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780815379324 0815379323 9781138626249 1138626244 |
| Index Number: | RA425 |
| CLC: | R19 |
| Call Number: | R19/L729 |
| Contents: | The logic of purposeful action in the artificial world -- The logic of production -- The logic of services -- The logic of healthcare -- The demand-supply based logic of healthcare. |