Management engineering (healthcare)
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Management engineering or health systems engineering
is a type of engineering in the field of healthcare.
Health system engineering includes many different disciplines such as industrial engineering
, operations research
, management science and quality management
.
Health systems engineering
Health systems engineering is an academic discipline where researchers and practitioners treat health care industry as complex systems, and further identify and apply engineering applications in health care systems. This term was first seen in late 70s...
is a type of engineering in the field of healthcare.
Health system engineering includes many different disciplines such as industrial engineering
Industrial engineering
Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis...
, operations research
Operations research
Operations research is an interdisciplinary mathematical science that focuses on the effective use of technology by organizations...
, management science and quality management
Quality management
The term Quality management has a specific meaning within many business sectors. This specific definition, which does not aim to assure 'good quality' by the more general definition , can be considered to have four main components: quality planning, quality control, quality assurance and quality...
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