Enabling innovative healthcare delivery through the use of the focussed factory model: The case of the spine clinic of the future

International Journal of Innovation and Learning

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 90-110

  Wickramasinghe, Nilmini ^a   Bloemendal Jr , Johannes W ^b   de Bruin, Alice K ^c   Krabbendam, J J ^c  

^a Cleveland State University   (United States)

^b DePuy Acromed   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Focussed factory; Health management information systems; Healthcare; IS IT; Knowledge management; Spine; Work flow

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 15944392059     PISSN: 14718197     EISSN: 17408016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJIL.2005.006086     Document Type: Article

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