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This volume is a collection of critical ideas relating organization science to both operations and accomplishments in the health care environment. A thematic guide for current leaders and practitioners, as well as health administration, business administration and organization development professors and students alike, this work pulls in a broad cross-section of perspectives on the important linkage of scholarship and practice with a solid global perspective. Covering key themes from culture, change, leadership, teams, IT and a systemic perspective of health care overall, it provides both practical insights and theoretical perspectives that will support immediate improvements and encourage longer term dialogue on how organization science can impact the delivery, structure and operations of health care systems globally. "Advances in Health Care Management" provides a forum for leading research on health care management with previous volumes providing reviews of the field, conference papers and research on selected topics including bioterrorism, international health care management, entrepreneurship, patient safety and nursing and health professional shortages.
Increasingly, there is a need for managers operating in the complex
and dynamic health care environment to better understand the
competitive nature of the health care industry and the
opportunities that potentially exist within it. In response, this
sixth volume of "Advances in Health Care Management" is dedicated
to strategic thinking and entrepreneurial action in the health care
industry.
This fifth volume of Advances in Health Care Management examines
international health care management. It consists of 12 papers, one
of which serves as an introduction, with the other papers arranged
into three sections. The first section on patients and providers
focuses on such issues as how socio-cultural forces affect the
health care experience; how hospital providers function differently
under various governance structures; how global strategies affect
providers and patients; and why and how provider organizations
should consider integrating within a health delivery system. The
second section on policy and management addresses such dilemmas as
whether some health care issues are impossible to solve through
traditional policy reforms; how international refugees should
receive health care; and whether policy reform lessons from other
countries can be adapted and applied to transform another country's
health system. The third and final section on performance and
management addresses issues such as whether the quality of care can
be managed at the hospital level, how human resource management can
be benchmarked within and across health care organizations, how
health care informatics and telemedicine can improve the continuity
of care, and whether different ways of accessing care within health
systems can be systemically compared and improved. Authors from Australia, Chile, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, South Africa, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America contributed to this volume. They explore the delivery and organization of care in health systems from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, encompassing more than 20countries in their comparisons. The papers included in this volume were only accepted following a rigorous peer review process. Each paper, whether solicited or responding to our open call, went through a double-blind review and revision process. The result is a select collection of outstanding papers.
Section one, a special research forum on management issues in nursing, examines the causes of the nursing shortage and its impact on performance, as well as how wage increases, staffing increases, empowerment, and organizational design might address and alleviate some of the root causes for this problem. Section two focuses on how health care costs can be lowered and the quality of care can be improved through better clinical and technological management, exploring population health management, patient-centered care management, and the impact of regulations on medical innovations. Section three addresses how health service organizations can improve their performance, and includes a field study of managers' capabilities and hospital success, a critical review of academic health centers, a theoretical model of post-bankruptcy organization performance, and a secondary data analysis that supports a new organizational typology for managing stakeholders.
The papers included in this volume may be categorized loosely into four general thematic sections: theoretical perspectives on the field of health care management; the role and impact of managed care; evolution of the health professions; enhancing health care organizational performance. The three papers in the first general section deal with a range of theoretical issues related to health care management, from complexity science to a theoretical comparison of integrated networks against systems, to how health care management researchers think about the research process. The three papers in the second section address the significant challenges faced by health care managers as they attempt to respond to the increasing impact of managed care. The third section's three papers look at the evolving roles of the health professions, including those of physicians as clinicians and as executives. The four papers in the final section focus on various approaches, from total quality management to use of work groups and transformational leadership, to enhancing health care organizational performance.
Hardbound. Dramatic social, political, technological, and economic changes are occurring in the health care industry. The Advances in Health Care Management research series was developed in response to this ongoing turbulence in the health care industry coupled with the decreasing number of scholarly outlets for complex and originative health care management research. The field needs new perspectives on organization, innovative management theory and superior empirical research that offer exciting ways to approach existing and emerging problems in health care management. Management scholarship should benefit from diverse conceptual and empirical health care research that examines all levels of analysis. The series provides a forum for the highest quality research, whether theoretical or empirical, in the field of health care management. It is endorsed and supported by the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management.
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