Healthcare Systems Management: Methodologies and Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Improving the Performance of an MRI Department Through Appointment Scheduling

   • P. Bhattacharjee

   Pages 1-11

3. Measurement of Efficiency and Productivity Growth of Hospital Systems: A Indian Case Study

   • Abhik Patra, Pradip Kumar Ray

   Pages 13-22

4. Integrated Trauma Management System

   • Gopinath Chattopadhyay, Michael Schuetz, Gour Karmakar, Sandeep Halder, Stephen Rashford, Young-Jin Oh et al.

   Pages 23-34

5. Regulatory Mechanism for Diagnostic Radiology (DR) Facilities in India

   • Anirban Guin, Soujanya Mukherjee, Manas Kumar Pathak, A. U. Sonawane

   Pages 35-44

6. Healthcare Improvement Through Integration of Quality Initiatives

   • Sujata Mitra, Sudhir Mishra, Pankaj Kumar

   Pages 45-58

7. A Study on Redesigning Modern Healthcare Using Internet of Things

   • K. Rajeswari, N. Vivekanandan, P. Amitaraj, Ajay Fulambarkar

   Pages 59-69

8. Inventory Management and Analysis of Pharmaceuticals in a Healthcare System

   • Esha Saha, Pradip Kumar Ray

   Pages 71-95

9. A Comprehensive Framework for Ergonomic Evaluation of Patient Handling Jobs in Healthcare Systems

   • Sanjeet Kumar, Pradip Kumar Ray

   Pages 97-113

10. Modeling and Analysis of Distribution of Blood Stocks to Healthcare Units

    • Pratiksha Patil, Pradip Kumar Ray, Esha Saha

    Pages 115-131

11. Back Matter

    Pages 133-135

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This edited volume focuses on research conducted in the area of healthcare systems management. Chapters are extensions of works presented at the International Conference on Management of Ergonomic Design, Industrial Safety and Healthcare Systems. The book addresses the need to have the knowledge of technological and resource management, clinical performances and quality of healthcare delivery systems in order to make hospital systems well and adequately designed and operationally effective ensuring the quality of healthcare to patients. It is a useful resource for students, researchers, industrial professionals and design engineers.

• Healthcare Systems Management
• Cost of healthcare
• hospital systems
• socioeconomic conditions and healthcare
• resource management systems and healthcare

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur , Kharagpur, India

  Pradip Kumar Ray

• Indian Institute of Technology , Kharagpur, India

  Jhareswar Maiti

Dr Pradip Kumar Ray is  a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, has more than twenty eight years of teaching, research and consultancy experience as well as eight years of industrial experience. He has published one text book titled ‘Product and Process Design for Quality Economy and Reliability’, thirteen book chapters, six lecture packages, and around 167 papers in international and national journals of repute and conferences in the areas of healthcare management, productivity measurement and evaluation, quality design and control, TQM, process optimization, ergonomics/human factors engineering, safety engineering and management and other related topics. His areas of interest and research include productivity modeling, quality engineering, ergonomics, safety engineering, engineering asset management and JIT-based/lean engineering operations management.

Dr. J Maiti, PhD, Professor& Head, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India has more than seventeen years of teaching, research and consulting experience on data analytics, safety analytics, quality analytics, engineering ergonomics, and engineering systems safety design and management. He excels in teaching multivariate statistical modeling, engineering systems safety design and control, safety analytics, work system design, quality engineering and design of experiments. He has published more than 100 papers in international journals of repute and conferences. Presently, he is serving as the member of editorial board of Safety Science, International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, and Safety & Health at Work. His current research interests include Data Science, Safety & Health Analytics, Quality Analytics, Engineering Ergonomics, and Virtual Reality Applications.

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