Organizing for Sustainable Healthcare (Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness, 2) - Hardcover

Susan Albers Mohrman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781900329 ISBN 13: 9781781900321

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2012

Synopsis

Health care, as it is currently organized, is not sustainable. Health care systems in the developed world are encountering increased demand for high quality health care but facing societal resource limits. Health care managers, professionals and academics worldwide are debating how to redesign its current organizational configurations and delivery paradigms to deliver more with less, amidst profound changes in demographics, increased cost of new technology and changing health care priorities. Health care is inextricably linked to the overall sustainability of society and it is critical that solutions are found. The chapters in this volume examine health care systems that are building the foundations for sustainable, high quality health care. Case-based analyses discuss substantive organizing changes aimed at operating within resource limitations, while taking advantage of new knowledge and medical advances that could have an unprecedented positive impact on the health of individuals and societies. The volume also explores the change capabilities and learning mechanisms that health care systems need in order to implement fundamental change and continue to improve over time.

About this title

About the Author

Susan Albers Mohrman - Center for Effective Organizations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abraham B. (Rami) Shani - Orfalea College of Business, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA and Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Review

This, the second volume in the series Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness, centers on developing global sustainable health care. Simply stated, for reasons of demographics, cost, and health trends, health care as it is now practiced is not sustainable and those factors are forcing health care stakeholders such as organizations, governments, and societies to change how health care is designed and what it accomplishes. Some topics are: the emerging global challenge, technology as a tool in sustainable health care delivery, using adaptive and disruptive change strategies, and a variety of case studies. Editors are Mohrman (business, U. of Southern California, Los Angeles) and Shani (business, California Polytechnic State U and Politecnico di Milano, Italy). Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1781900329
• ISBN 13: 9781781900321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Susan Albers Mohrman, Abraham B. Shani