A Case Study on a Real-Time Enterprise to Improve Operational Efficiency of Medical Institutions - Centering on the Main Process of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital -

의료기관 운영 효율성 제고를 위한 실시간 기업(RTE) 사례 연구 - 서울성모병원 핵심 프로세스를 중심으로 -

  • Park, Byeong-Tae (Business Administration, Seoul School of Integrated Sciences & Technologies) ;
  • Lee, Dong-Hyeon (Business Administration at the Catholic University of Korea)
  • 박병태 (서울과학종합대학원 경영학과) ;
  • 이동현 (가톨릭대학교 경영학과)
  • Received : 2010.08.06
  • Accepted : 2010.09.10
  • Published : 2010.09.30

Abstract

This is a case study of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital applying a real-time enterprise (RTE) strategy to improve customer satisfaction and operational efficiency with the main process of medical institutions. The hospital is applying an RTE strategy to get real-time information on occurrences at each contact point of the main process of the medical institution from reservation to discharge through dashboard and to resolve issues through rapid decision-making. The RTE strategy of the hospital has some summaries: First, the hospital has linked a hospital management strategy to the RTE strategy to build a patient-centered treatment process. Second, the hospital has operated a control tower for change management and implementation monitoring in the process of implementing the RTE strategy. Third, the hospital has built systematic RTE-based environment as an application program in which the nU System is linked to Business Processor Renovation (BPR) promoted from 2006 on. Fourth, the hospital is applying a strategy to improve efficiency in operating the hospital by increasing customer satisfaction, removing inefficiency and variability, and managing medical resources efficiently through the RTE strategy. Fifth, it has established an information-sharing system through authority management for each user in terms of RTE information. Sixth, it has supplemented limitations of short-term information of the RTE strategy by linking the key performance index to the cost information system in order to improve performance of the RTE strategy. Seventh, it has improved customer satisfaction and achieved higher performance in improving operational efficiency, as compared with rival hospitals, through the RTE strategy.

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