title: Reengineering health care. A new management tool aims to transform the organizational processes--and stir discussion.
abstract: Looking for improved clinical quality, reduced costs, streamlined operations? Advocates of business process reengineering say it can help achieve all those things. But what is reengineering in a health care context? Experts look at the conceptual, operational and information management challenges.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bergman
mesh_terms: D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D007318:Inservice Training; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010934:Planning Techniques; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011590:Psychology, Industrial / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013597:Systems Analysis; D014481:United States