Hospital Management Transformation

A Case Study

Limited success is reported from most of the projects of new management philosophy such as Total Quality Management, Business Process Reengineering, Information Technologies, and Continuous Improvement. The reason was attributed to the way these initiatives were structured and implemented. Most of the implementations of these transformational strategies are found to concentrate on process improvement instead of dealing with the interacting subsystems of the organization. Hospitals and health-care organizations require more attention in their transformation efforts to guarantee error free operations, with the highest quality service. In the present case study a new methodology is applied to reform a hospital manamenget system in Cairo Egypt which adopting a total system approach.

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السيستم د. عبد المنعم سعيد المصري اليوم
ميكنة المطارات وتحليل النظم

رحلتي مع رخصة القيادة د. عبد المنعم سعيد
وحدةالتراخيص وتحليل النظم

الرقمنة والروتين محمد السيد صالح
الحكومة والتحول الرقمي

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Environment, safety, quality

In many countries around the world hospitals have recognized the need to cope with the increasing operating cost and support a decent level of service quality to become on the competitive edge of the health care industry..

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Total Unified Methoodlogy (TUM)
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Systems analysis is the key for change

New management philosophies as Total Quality Management (TQM), Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Restructuring and Downsizing (RD), and Continuous Improvement (CI), in addition to various implementation of Information Technologies (IT) can be found to be applied now in many hospitals with various levels of success

Hospital Transformation with TUM:

The present article discusses stages, elements, and methodology space need to be applied in hospital management reengineering, with its associated tools and techniques. Also, integration of reengineering efforts with Health Care Accreditation activities and Information Technology implementation is reviewed with findings from a real-life situation. A new methodology to integrate all improvement projects is also proposed. In the present case study this methodology was used and figure shows an outline for action flow diagram for a system development method known as Total Unified Methodology (TUM), developed to manage the requirements for problem definition, reengineering, process design with performance and quality measures, and system implementation. It can also integrate all development projects as ISO certification, BPR, and TQM which should be conducted under one umbrella of systems development.
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The present case study presents a methodology general enough to be used in various fields of applications, as it was tested in different facilities, and service and production environments. Hospital was divided in departments and activities which cover emergency clinic and reception, outpatient clinics, inpatient treatment, operating theater, sterilization, laboratories, diagnosis, maintenance and engineering, biomedical engineering, nursing, financials, administration, pharmacy, and medical supplies. The hospital has 14 outpatient working clinics and more than 300 inpatient beds, just to give an idea about the size of activities involved. All the departments surveyed used a paper-based system evolved by each department personnel either created from their needs or brought from their previous work.