BUSI 611 Quiz 1
- Health care operations is about management of interconnected processes, or systems.
- Academic medical centers are generally the same as other community hospitals in terms of size and number of service lines offered.
- The healthcare industry has been a leader in the United States in demonstrating how best to manage the processes and systems required to produce patient care services.
- Analytics and optimization will find application in health care in all of these areas except:
- The healthcare industry has a great deal of parallel with airlines in terms of how business processes can be managed quickly and efficiently.
- Business planning and performance improvement in hospitals includes areas such as:
- Which of the following are contemporary policies impacting healthcare operations?
- Which of the following is not an input to the production of healthcare services?
- Which of the following is a key function or issue in healthcare operations management?
- Regulations provide broad guidelines that are used to create specific procedures within a system.
- Hospitals can learn about operations management effectiveness from which of these industries?
- Evidence-based healthcare can be applied in logistics and operations in a healthcare organization.
- The goals for operations managers in a hospital include:
- Finding waste, improving utilization, and generally stabilizing and reducing the overall cost of delivering services are essential functions for a healthcare manager.
- Health care organizations will move more toward stand-alone operation and less on development of inter-organizational processes.
Set 2
- As health care becomes more sophisticated, organizations will be managed much more like a financial portfolio, where departments and units that offer the greatest value at the lowest risk are cultivated, while those that reduce value or increase risk are mitigated or eliminated.
- Finance and accounting represent a negligible portion of health care.
- The healthcare industry has a great deal of parallel with airlines in terms of how business processes can be managed quickly and efficiently.
- Finding waste, improving utilization, and generally stabilizing and reducing the overall cost of delivering services are essential functions for a healthcare manager.
- Health care organizations will move more toward stand-alone operation and less on development of inter-organizational processes.
- Hospitals offer an intangible product that is not easily packaged or classified to be sold.
- Health care operations is about management of interconnected processes, or systems.
- The goals for operations managers in a hospital include:
- Which of the following is a key function or issue in healthcare operations management?
- Operations managers will limit improvement and change to achieve better results quickly by doing which of the following?
- Which of the following is a consideration for operations management in assessment of workflow process?
- Hospitals can learn about operations management effectiveness from which of these industries?
- Clinical, financial, and other goals for a healthcare organization are clear, with little ambiguity.
- Which of the following is not a major classification of Hospitals according to the American Hospital Association?
- Technology focused on clinical needs in health care will be a lesser priority than on business needs of health care organizations.