Business process re-engineering in healthcare

From a healthcare viewpoint, BPR is a management approach that rethinks present practices and processes in business and its interactions. It attempts to improve underlying process efficiency by applying fundamental and radical approaches by either modifying or eliminating non-value adding activities and redeveloping the process/structure/culture. However, in the health sector, a wide variety of patient groups make the healthcare service a complex project to redesign along these lines, thereby rendering changes context and time sensitive.