Active Management of Healthcare Operations: A Dynamic System View of Healthcare Delivery

Abstract

The migration to modern information systems and advancement in noninvasive health monitoring devices enable highly mobile users to support increased efficiencies and improvements in delivery of healthcare. Users of these systems are likely to have different needs or views of information either because of organizational role or because of geographic location. In this distributed architecture, available resources must dynamically be able to be reassigned to respond to external factors such as changes in the environment, changes in short-term objectives, reallocation of responsibilities, and changes in resource consumption patterns. This paper describes a framework for healthcare decision making and management of healthcare operations through the application of dynamic resource management using information technology for what we call active management of healthcare operations.

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“…Operations management is the design, operation, and improvement of the processes and systems that create and deliver the organization's products and services. The goal of operations management is to more effectively and efficiently produce and deliver the organization's products and services [7]. A new approach is the Active Management of Healthcare Operations (AMHO) which is a framework for healthcare decision-making and management of healthcare operations through the application of dynamic resource management (DRM) using information technology [7].…”

“…The goal of operations management is to more effectively and efficiently produce and deliver the organization's products and services [7]. A new approach is the Active Management of Healthcare Operations (AMHO) which is a framework for healthcare decision-making and management of healthcare operations through the application of dynamic resource management (DRM) using information technology [7]. The AMHO approach captures factors that might influence how proposed plans and current activities unfold and provides visibility into the range of possible outcomes.…”

“…The AMHO approach captures factors that might influence how proposed plans and current activities unfold and provides visibility into the range of possible outcomes. Examples of such capabilities include resource projection, predictive management, emergency planning and real time response (situational awareness), as well as financial forecasting [7].…”