Health Efficiency: How Can Engineering be a Player in Health Organization?

Health Efficiency: How Can Engineering be a Player in Health Organization? explores the important components of performance measurement. It brings together the work of researchers, doctors and engineers involved in an area where collaboration between doctors and engineers is becoming more and more common. However, the application of industrial engineering and operational research to health systems is still poorly studied and researched, hence the need for this book. After all, better exchanges between disciplines equals better knowledge between health professionals and engineers.

Part 1. Health Technology Coordination Approach 1. Forward Vision of Technologies and Health Knowledge 2. Coordination Between Professionals: a Public Health Issue

Part 2. Optimization of Flows within a Hospital 3. Decision Support Methods for Efficient Flow Management in Medical Device Sterilization Departments 4. Prediction of Hospital Flows Based on Influenza Epidemics and Meteorological Factors

Part 3. Oncology and Technology 5. Cancer Care Pathway: How Technological Advances are Helping to Address Coordination Challenges 6. Optimization Issues in Chemotherapy Delivery

Part 4. Age-appropriate Technologies 7. Comparison of Two Hospitalization Admission Pathways in Geriatrics, Either Directly through a Telephone Line or Hotline or After a Visit to an Emergency Department 8. Therapeutic Education for the Patient over 75 Years Old Living at Home

Part 5. The Health Network 9. The Evolution of the Economic Model of the Health Network in France: Challenges and Prospects 10. Primary Care Electronic Health Data: Good to the Last Byte 11. Conclusion