Hospital Re-engineering

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This paper defines the term "re-engineering" in terms of corporate structures and looks at the need and suitability of reengineering for hospitals. It looks at reasons why some attempts at re-engineering hospitals have not been successful and why successful attempts at re-engineering were successful for a variety of contributing factors.

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"A reasonably good insight into hospital re-engineering has been provided in the article entitled "Hospital reengineering: An evolving management innovation: History, current status and future direction" in the Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, Harrisburg, Spring 2001. Re-engineering is basically undertaking to incorporate some major changes in the organization with the foresight of making some dramatic improvements. Improvements usually for an organization would be the cutting down of costs. It has been rightly stated that the original idea of reengineering has been modified and implemented as restructuring. Restructuring forms the major part of reengineering and both these terms have been used interchangeably. Many major corporations adopted reengineering and many others blindly followed suit."

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