Responding to the Grand Challenges in Healthcare Via Organizational Innovation : Needed Advances in Management Research

This book contains two Open Access chapters.

The 21st volume of Advances in Health Care Management presents informed commentaries solicited from leaders across the field of health care management. Each chapter tackles a specific health care challenge, describing the state of the research on the challenge, identifying appropriate organizational innovations to respond to the challenge, and setting out a future research agenda. Expert authors consider what is known, what is not known, and what is needed to fill the gaps and advance knowledge. Responding to The Grand Challenges in Healthcare Via Organizational Innovation explores in detail varied scenarios and suggestions for dealing with unexpected crises, improving diversity, equity and inclusion in health care, building strategic alliances for inter-sector collaboration, as well as analyzing organizational governance and physician financial risk models.

Stephen M. Shortell is Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management and Dean Emeritus at Berkeley School of Public Health, University of California, USA. Stephen’s expertise is in policies and practices to reform health care delivery and improve the value of care provided to patients.

Lawton Robert Burns is Chair of the Health Care Management Department, the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor and Professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Lawton has worked to analyze physician-hospital integration over the past 25 years, and teaches courses on healthcare strategy change and implementation, managed care, and integrated delivery networks.

Jennifer L. Hefner is an Associate Professor in the Division of Health Management and Policy, The Ohio State University, USA. Her research focuses on applying management and organizational theories to the study of health care transformation.