Service Line Management: A New Paradigm in Health Care System

Abstract

Health care organizations are required to implement modern management practices and approaches due to the importance of improving quality and increasing efficiency of health care services. Service line management of healthcare services is one of the new approaches that managers of health sectors are interested in. The “service line” approach will organize the management of inpatient and outpatient in clinical services focusing on patient diagnostic clusters. Services specific in each patient diagnostic cluster will be offered by a multidisciplinary team including nurses, physicians, and so no. Accordingly, the present study aims to evaluate the features, process and benefits of service line management approach in the provision of health services. In this descriptive study, internal and external scientific database have been reviewed and the necessary data have been extracted from the latest research projects and related scientific documents. The results showed that the new management approach is based on a paradigm shift from traditional health care system management to healthcare service line management with a focus on managers’ competencies. Four specific manager’s competencies in this new management model are: conceptual, collaborative, interpersonal, and leadership competencies. Theses competencies should be developed in health system managers so as to lead to organizational excellency and improvement of health service quality. The health sector managers should strengthen these four key competencies and act on them. Then they will become effective leaders and managers in the health system.

Authors and Affiliations

Rafat Rezapour Nasrabad| Management Department, School of Nursing and Midwifery, ShahidBeheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, CorrespondingEmail:Rezapour.r@sbmu.ac.ir

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Rafat Rezapour Nasrabad (2016). Service Line Management: A New Paradigm in Health Care System. International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences (IJMRHS), 5(12), 208-211. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-12254