Hospital Management: An Introduction

Author: Cao Ronggui
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Publishing Date: 2003-05-01
Features: China has over 60,000 hospitals (including health centers), forming a vast healthcare service system. As humanity enters a new century, China has also entered a new era. Hospitals at all levels in China are undergoing profound reforms in the medical and healthcare system, placing new demands on management. The reforms in the urban workers' basic medical insurance system, healthcare system, and pharmaceutical production and circulation system are advancing simultaneously and deeply. With China's entry into the WTO, medical institutions will attract more domestic and foreign capital, technology, and advanced management methods. A new service system with coexistence of multiple ownership forms and operational models, and fair competition, will gradually take shape. As the economy and society develop, the demand for healthcare services is growing rapidly, and the public's expectations for healthcare services are increasing. As the primary providers of healthcare services, hospitals are crucial for implementing social security systems, are a focal point of healthcare system reforms, and inevitably become one of the highlights of public attention. It can be said that China's medical institutions face both favorable development opportunities and severe challenges. How to seize these rare opportunities, meet the challenges, develop in competition, and provide high-quality and efficient services to the public, creating both social and economic benefits, is the key issue addressed in this new edition of Hospital Management.
Management is both a science and an art. Qualified hospital managers must master the scientific principles of hospital management, understand the latest international management theories and methods, and focus on exploration and innovation to enhance their management capabilities and level. They must refine their management skills and art in practice. Hospital management is a science that must be continuously enriched and developed through practice. Therefore, as hospital reforms deepen, it has become a trend for hospital managers to seriously study hospital management science, explore management theories and methods that align with China's actual hospital work and development patterns, summarize and exchange practical hospital management experience, and foster a professional hospital management team. However, as a science, hospital management has only been developing in China for a relatively short time. Among current hospital managers, many have not received systematic training in hospital management. Internationally, the field of hospital management is advancing rapidly, and catching up with the development pace of hospital management in developed countries still requires effort. The task of improving China's hospital management science system and cultivating a professional hospital management team is extremely challenging.
To address this, under the care of new and old leaders from the Ministry of Health and the Health Department of the General Logistics Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Chinese Hospital Management Association and the Hospital Management Research Institute of the Ministry of Health organized over 200 experts and scholars from across China's hospital management field. Referencing a vast amount of literature, they compiled this Hospital Management, which includes 15 volumes: Introduction, Quality Management, Teaching and Research Management, Human Resource Management, Operational Management, Information Management, Hospital Culture, Nursing Management, Pharmaceutical Management, Clinical Laboratory Management, Medical Imaging Management, Medical Records Management, Hospital Architecture Management, Medical Equipment Management, and Logistics Management. It is the most comprehensive hospital management monograph available in China to date. It aims to systematically and comprehensively introduce the latest theories and advancements in hospital management both domestically and internationally, while closely aligning with China's hospital management practices. Based on the objective needs of hospital innovation, reform, and development, it summarizes China's theories, experiences, and methods in hospital management, making the book systematic, advanced, and practical. It can serve as both a textbook for on-the-job training, continuing education, and teaching reference for health management majors in medical schools, as well as a daily reference for hospital managers.
We hope that the publication of this book will promote the development and improvement of China's hospital management discipline, enrich its theoretical prosperity, contribute to the advancement of China's healthcare industry, modernize hospital construction, and cultivate professional hospital management talent.
The book covers topics such as: Management and Hospital Management, Hospitals and Hospital Management, Health Laws and Medical Institution Management, Regional Medical Planning and Hospital Management, and more.