Customer Service

Abstract

Management of customer service in healthcare requires addressing the service strategy, service staffing, and service systems. All are important contributors to the ultimate goal of meeting and exceeding the needs, wants, and expectations of internal and external customers. Key internal customers include physicians and staff. Key external customers include patients, families, third-party payers, and vendors. Discussion of the service strategy involves looking at the current market reality and consumer expectations. The strategic planning process as it relates to service requires assessment of the external environment, developing appropriate action plans, forecasting the future, enhancing the healing environment, and creating a customer-focused culture. Staffing addresses the human resource activities which provide the professional and non-professional staff who develop, implement, improve, and monitor the service strategy. Such activities or functions include job analysis, recruitment, selection, leader and staff development, employee motivation, and patient co-production of services. Systems refer to the processes, standards, and other practices that support staff including information systems, various systems techniques, systems to reduce wait times, feedback systems, and service failure recovery systems.

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Publication Title

Handbook of Healthcare Management

Number of Pages

98-126

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783470167.00009

Socpus ID

84957991526 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84957991526

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