Prospects for and practice in the economic management of hospitals
- VernacularTitle:医院经济管理的展望与实践
- Author:
Xinchun LI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Hospital;
Management, Economy
- From:
Chinese Journal of Hospital Administration
1996;0(12):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Reviewing the practice in the economic management of hospitals in recent years, analyzing its changes and development tendencies, and identifying the strategies and methods for future development will be beneficial for hospitals to go with the social tide, seize development opportunities, expand advantages and improve management benefit. From a panoramic perspective, the changes and developments of the economic management of hospitals chiefly manifest as transformation in the concepts of operational management, enhancement of its strategic position, expansion of management functions, changes in organizational structures, increasing scientific nature of technical means and improvement of personnels quality. Now that the new century has set in, hospitals hoping to enhance their economic management must exert to constantly update concepts of operational management so as to be adapted to the market of health service under the reform policies. Only by expanding the functions of economic management and making constant innovations in line with hospital reforms can the benefit of economic management be brought into full play. It is necessary to regroup institutions of economic management before a cohesive force can be shaped. It is also a must to cultivate talented personnel in the field of operational management in order to improve management benefit and keep abreast of the development of hospitals in the new century.
