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Even though workflow management systems are currently not being applied on a wide scale in healthcare settings, their benefits with respect to operational efficiency and reducing patient risk seem enticing. In the presented study, we show how an approach that is rooted in simulation can be useful to predict the benefits of using a workflow management system. The approach is discussed and its ap...

Organizational ethics is an emerging field concerned with the study and practice of the ethical behaviour of organizations. For effective application to healthcare settings, we argue that organizational ethics requires attention to organizations' special characteristics combined with tools borrowed from the fields of business ethics and bioethics. We identify and discuss several implications of...

A CHARITABLE PURPOSE The history of tax exemption of healthcare organizations has implications for the future. Our nation's first healthcare facilities were exempt from the earliest tax laws because they were seen as clearly having a charitable purpose, providing care and shelter for the sick poor who had no place else to go. The tax code has never specified that healthcare organizations such a...

Patient visits various organizations or units within organizations to get proper diagnosis and treatment. The role of healthcare workflowmanagement by use of IT is to adjust the contributions of those organizations or units in terms of timing, quality and functionality. Some of these difficulties can be traced back to the heterogeneous nature of healthcare organizations. Professionals require a...

Grounded in the conceptual lens of Deci and Ryan’s self-determination theory, strategies nonprofit healthcare leaders use to reduce volunteer turnover were explored this single-case study. The participations included 5 from a single organization Southwestern United States. Data collected using semistructured interviews, internal external organizational documents, publicly available data. Analys...