Salloum, Tania Boutros
(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2008)
Changes have been the password of the healthcare industry for the last three
decades. It is known that the healthcare field is affected by three factors: quality, cost
and operations (standard of care). These three factors are affecting each other and
they are in constant change. Customer demand for better quality of care and safe
patient care is increasing; new technologies and medical innovation are emerging
every minute. Therefore change is inevitable in a modern healthcare system if
standards of patient care are to be maintained and improved. In all businesses and in
the healthcare ...