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Operations Management in Health Care

Operations management is the organizing and controlling of the fundamental business activity of providing goods and services to customers (Encarta, 2005). In the healthcare industry, operations management generally focuses on providing a service of healthcare to patients. An organization has three basic functional areas, and theses are: finance, marketing, and operations (Operations Management, 2004, p.4). Since operations is one of the three basic functions of an organization it holds a strong significance in the healthcare industry. The contents of this paper will explain what operations management means to the writer, and why is operations management important to a healthcare organization.

What is Operations Management?
The specific breakdown of operations management came from reading chapter 1 of the online textbook titled Operations Management. Further explained in the book, operations services are products of the transformations of......

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Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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