ISBN: 9780761936299    Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc Year of publishing: 2008     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 396        Language: English

Health care has become one of India's fastest growing sectors in the past decade. A multitude of private players have entered this market, combining to offer high-quality health care and service in world-class hospitals and nursing homes all over India. It has been recognised that a professional approach to hospital administration and better resource allocation will go a long way to ensure both quality and cost-effectiveness in health care in India.The second edition of this successful book contains a well-planned collection of writings on modern hospital management. Revised and updated, it also contains two new chapters that discuss and highlight new developments in this field. The book spans a wide range of issues in modern hospital management, and provides all the necessary knowledge required to set up and run a modern-day hospital efficiently and as an economically viable business. The book also looks at Customer experience management; Computer-aided diagnosis; Waste management; Financial management; Maintaining medical records; Medical audits; and Managing human resources.
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A V Srinivasan is Director of Corporate Planner-Indian Network, a management consulting firm based in Hyderabad. Dr. Srinivasan has a Masters in Statistics from Madras University and an MBA and PhD in Operations Research from the University of Chicago. He was until recently, professor of management in the Apollo Institute of Hospital Administration, affiliated to Osmania University, Hyderabad and adviser to Apollo Hospitals Education and Research Foundation. He was a faculty at the Administrative Staff College of India for over 15 years, visiting professor to several universities in the United States and an executive with the Mahindra Group in Pune. He also served as IFCI Professor of Management at Delhi University, and is a fellow of the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering. Dr Srinivasan has developed corporate plans and futuristic studies for several organisations over the course of his career. He has presented papers in international conferences and published papers in several reputed national and international journals. He has authored a number of books on management including Managing a Modern Hospital (Sage, 2000); Indian Leather 2010: A Study of Technology; Japanese Management: The Indian Context; Triumph in Project Management: A Study of Vijaypur Fertilizer Project; and Critical Path Analysis-A Systems Approach.
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