Abstract
The expectation for medical treatment has been changing from "quantity" to "quality". This is accelerated by enforcement of the Reconstruction of the Public Medical Care System and the progress of aged society. Especially, the progress of aged society brings the epidemiologic transition, and it changes the general requirement for medical services. Under these changes of environment, improving the efficiency, the cost, and the quality of a medical services are required to realize the patient satisfaction is needed and to realize the continuous management of hospital In this paper, the management of hospitalization process is considered as one of the applications of project management. One of the results of consideration shows that the hospitalization is consisted as a program that is consisted of a few projects. Furthermore, the hospitalization process is analyzed in order to find out the bottleneck for the successful hospitalization. The result of a case study shows the application of project management about the establishment of hospitalization goal, of control of a hospitalization period and of communication management among medical staffs.
