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Practical.Interventional.Cardiology.[taliem.ir]

Practical Interventional Cardiology

Coronary artery disease (CAD) represents a global leading cause of death especially for middle- and high- income countries. In 2012, all-cause deaths were estimated as 56 million worldwide with 17.5 million deaths (31%) attributed to cardiovascular disease (CVD).1 Ischemic heart disease represented 7.4 million (13%) of people, whilst 6.7 million (12%) died from stroke. In high-income countries, 70% of deaths occurred in ages greater than 70 years old mainly from chronic CVD, cancer, dementia, chronic obstructive lung disease and diabetes. On the contrary, the percentage of cardiovascular deaths in low-income countries is relatively low in comparison to infectious disease, lower respiratory infections, HIV/AIDS, diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis, which collectively account for almost one-third of all deaths.1 Despite the increase in the survival rates of CAD patients over the past few decades, the number of individuals with CVD is estimated to exceed more than 23.6 million by 2030.2 Currently one in three adults in the United States (approximately 71.3 million) has some form of CVD, including more than 17 million with CAD and 10 million with angina pectoris.
Business Process Re-Engineering At Cardiology[taliem.ir]

Business Process Re-Engineering At Cardiology Department

Healthcare sector is the world’s third largest industry and is facing several problems like excessive waiting times for patients, lack of access to information, high costs of delivery and medical errors. Healthcare Managers seek the help of process reengineering methods to discover the best processes for performing work, and that processes are reengineered to optimize productivity without compromising on quality. Business Process Reengineering refers to the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical, contemporary measures of performance, such as cost, quality and speed. The present study is carried out at tertiary care corporate hospital with 1,000- plus-bed facility. A descriptive study and case study method is used with intensive, careful, complete observation of patient flow, delays, short comings in the patient movement and workflow. Data is collected through observations, informal interviews and analyzed by Matrix Analysis. Flowcharts were drawn for the various work activities of cardiology department including Workflow of the admission process, Workflow in ward & ICCU, Work flow of the patient for catheterization laboratory procedure & Billing and Discharge Process. The Problems of the existing system were studied and necessary suggestions were recommended to cardiology department module with illustrated Flow chart