The supply chain of acute care hospitals consists of entities that interact to provide the tools, personnel, and information necessary for quality service to patients and seeks to maintain efficient operations. This paper examines the interplay between operational factors such as process coordination activities, IT investments that facilitate these activities, and firm-level financial performan...

Hip fracture incidence rises globally in an aging population who live in an era of financial austerity. Health service providers are under pressure both to optimize care and to increase efficiencies in the management of this vulnerable patient group. One area of inefficiency in perioperative processes is the assessment of deranged clotting profiles secondary to warfarinization and in the monito...

This study applies Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure the relative efficiencies on a bank in Taiwan and examine the performance and productivity changes when banks implement financial electronic data interchange. The article includes 18 branches of the performance for implementation of financial electronic data interchange of the overall efficiency, pure technical efficiency, scale effi...

ic with frequent volume fluctuations, shifting investor requirements, and evolving regulatory and compliance standards, not to mention ever-changing customer demands. In the mid-1990s, Fannie Mae introduced Desktop Underwriter (DU), an automated underwriting system (AUS) that significantly improved the underwriting process (McDonald et al. 1997). DU and other automated underwriting systems have...

the main purpose of this research paper is to calculate irans housing (maskan) bank through the use of data envelopment analysis. in this research, the performance of 33 branches of the housing bank throughout tehran (capital city of iran) within 2002-2004 was analyzed and discussed. the results of the study shows that average technical efficiencies of housing bank branches in two hypotheses of...

Due to increasing financial and environmental concerns, governmental rules, regulations and incentives, alternative energy sources are expected to grow at a faster pace than conventional sources of energy. However, the current body of research providing comparative decision-making models for conventional and alternative energy sources is limited. Furthermore, existing literature also falls shor...

In the last edition of TMI, we explored the elements, which comprise the financial supply chain. We looked in some detail at the order-to-cash (receivables) and purchaseto-pay (payables) processes and how these can be optimised to create internal efficiencies, reducing the number of cash days for a company and therefore working capital requirements. The benefits of automating internal processes...

This paper proposes a new model which provides some insights on using Stochastic Data Envelopment Analysis (SDEA) technique in the future performance appraisal for similar units of an organization. This research contributes to advance current knowledge by proposing new model in which, regardless of having benefits of DEA, resolve some head problems of the context. For instance: 1) the efficienc...

1 This page intentionally left blank. Background Medical device manufacturers (suppliers) and hospitals (providers) face financial and operational stressors exacerbated by recent healthcare reform. Providers now face the prospect of decreased reimbursements and financial penalties associated with quality of care metrics while suppliers must cope with product commoditization and increased scruti...