The economic, political and social environment is changing dramatically, and business in health organizations (HOs) is adapting to this change. The adaptation to this change is the main problem we try to solve by applying business process reengineering (BPR) techniques to the examined organizations. The basic technologies should be combined in software applications: relational database management systems, SQL database applications
The success of information technology : the greatest -- Empowering agent of business process reengineering -- Heading toward a new direction of development through -- ICT emerging technology -- Information technology-enabled business process reengineering : organizational and human resource dimensions -- Rethinking, replanning, and rebuilding : customer expectations -- ICT as a driver of business process reengineering -- Corporate goals and creating value : improving organizational -- Innovation -- Reengineering processes : key toward information technology -- Improvements -- Crafting possibility improvement : an information system -- Approach -- Process restructuring: customers, suppliers, and business -- Partner dimensions -- Application of six sigma in information technology : a business -- Process redesign perspective -- Managing the role of information technology : alteration of -- Corporate changes -- The role of information technology : a driving force behind -- The productivity of organizations -- Business process reengineering : producing a higher level of -- Output to a specific product in a specific time -- Technology enhancement redesign business structure : -- From functional to cross-functional.
Understanding the lean philosophy -- Representing corporations with a business process model -- Creating and using hierarchies -- Decoupling systems and processes -- Requirement roll-down using the design for six sigma approach -- Discovering your business processes -- Reengineering your business processes -- Implementing new business processes -- The lean corporation -- An example of discovering your business processes -- An example of reengineering your business processes -- An example of implementing new business processes.