Achieving Meaningful Use and Operational Efficiency

Meaningful tips for achieving meaningful use.

Five critical strategies for achieving operational efficiency.

I n a recent report that summarizes the reasons that hospitals undertake construction projects, “operational efficiency and patient flow” are cited as the most common objectives (Carpenter 2004). Intuitively, improvements in operating efficiency should flow from more modern and efficient building systems, streamlined clinical and business processes, more appropriate departmental adjacencies, an...

Achieving Meaningful Efficiency in Coercion-Resistant, Verifiable Internet Voting

In traditional voting schemes with paper, pens, and ballot-boxes, appropriate procedures are put in place to reassure voters that the result of the tally is correct. Considering that in Internet voting errors or fraud will generally scale over a much greater fraction of votes, the demand to get strong reassurances as well, seems more than justified. With the ambition of offering a maximum degre...

Achieving TASAR Operational Readiness

NASA has been developing and testing the Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR) concept for aircraft operations featuring a NASA-developed cockpit automation tool, the Traffic Aware Planner (TAP), which computes traffic/hazard-compatible route changes to improve flight efficiency. The TAP technology is anticipated to save fuel and flight time and thereby provide immediate and pervasiv...

Operational Efficiency

The fields of engineering and management associate efficiency with how well a relevant action is performed, i.e. ‘‘doing things right’’, and effectiveness with selecting the best action, i.e. ‘‘doing the right thing’’. Thus, a firm is effective if identifies appropriate strategic goals, and efficient if it achieves them with minimal resources. This chapter focuses on operational efficiency, or ...