Reconfiguring the Eco-System for Sustainable Healthcare (Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness, 4) - Hardcover

Susan Albers Mohrman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784410357 ISBN 13: 9781784410353

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2014

Synopsis

Volume 4 extends the examination of 'Organizing for Sustainable Healthcare' (Volume 2 of the same series, 2012). It presents case studies and theoretical analyses that illustrate practical approaches to, and further the theoretical understanding of, the creation of a more sustainable healthcare. Given economic, ecological, and population trends, the sustainability of healthcare delivery as it is organized today cannot be taken for granted. Politicians, healthcare regulators and professionals worldwide are debating how to redesign today's delivery paradigms to deliver greater value to our societies while consuming fewer resources. Even in countries with national health systems, healthcare organization has been fragmented, diminishing outcome effectiveness and wasting society's resources. With complex value chains and dynamic interactions among various players, the reconfiguration of the healthcare system will require the reconciliation of different - often conflicting - goals, values, conceptions of social justice, work processes, knowledge bases, and business models. The chapters in this volume build on multiple disciplines and varied approaches to address this complexity.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Albers Mohrman - University of Southern California, USA
Abraham B. Shani - California Polytechnic State University, USA

Review:

Based partly on a workshop on the topic held in Como, Italy, in May, 2012, the eight essays in this volume consider how healthcare systems are reconfiguring to address the changing nature of the environments in which they operate. Health, technology, and business specialists from North America, Europe, and New Zealand present cases of healthcare systems in the US, New Zealand, Sweden, Italy, and Canada that are reconfiguring in response to changing ecosystems due to the development of knowledge and technology, changing expectations from stakeholders, changing laws and regulations, funding mechanisms, and demands to deliver better outcomes at a lower cost. The cases detail issues in primary care clinics, managed clinical networks for cardiac care, a cancer center, Kaiser Permanente, and a health technology assessment program, as well as criteria-based resource allocation. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2014 Ringgold Inc. Portland, OR (protoview.com)

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1784410357
• ISBN 13: 9781784410353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Susan Albers Mohrman, Abraham B. Shani