Author Description

Industrial Engineering for Hospitals is built around a set of hospital logistics case studies based on industrial engineering approaches to planning, logistics, transportation, inventory and flow management. The case studies focus on different areas of the hospital, including pharmacy, emergency room, EMS, radiotherapy and oncology, and sterilization. No other recent book addresses operations management and logistics challenges for hospitals or healthcare services in this manner. The book presents new approaches based on industrial logistics concepts to solve hospital logistic problems. Each chapter addresses a particular topic of hospital logistics, and three case studies implemented in a hospital are presented. Discusses operation management issues for hospitals and healthcare services Discusses health care administration management, the health information system and patient flow improvement Explores the relevant problem of logistics in hospitals Presents new approaches based on industrial logistics concepts to solve hospital logistics problems Addresses hospital logistics using three case studies