Multimorbidity and our healthcare system
Publication date: Summer 2014 Source:Healthcare Management Forum, Volume 27, Issue 2 Author(s): Sholom Glouberman The early healthcare system responded to widespread acute, infectious diseases; but today the challenge is non-communicable diseases—many of which are multiple long-term conditions. How can patients and their families in partnership with providers manage their conditions so as to avert unnecessary hospital stays? The expressed needs of patients and families demonstrate the need for increased community support services and better communication through information technology, amongst other solutions. (Source...
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
How is the “public interest” defined in learning networks?
Publication date: Autumn 2014 Source:Healthcare Management Forum, Volume 27, Issue 3 Author(s): Michael M. Burgess (Source: Healthcare Management Forum)
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Interorganizational networks: Fundamental to the Accreditation Canada program
Publication date: Autumn 2014 Source:Healthcare Management Forum, Volume 27, Issue 3 Author(s): Jonathan I. Mitchell, Wendy Nicklin, Bernadette MacDonald Within the Canadian healthcare system, the term population-accountable health network defines the use of collective resources to optimize the health of a population through integrated interventions. The leadership of these networks has also been identified as a critical factor, highlighting the need for creative management of resources in determining effective, balanced sets of interventions. In this article, using specific principles embedded in the Accreditation Ca...
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
What healthcare leaders can learn from research on dark networks
This article examines the findings of that research and applies it to the dilemmas of organizing healthcare networks. (Source: Healthcare Management Forum)
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
A network to improve emergency patient care by facilitating practitioners to effectively support practitioners
Publication date: Autumn 2014 Source:Healthcare Management Forum, Volume 27, Issue 3 Author(s): Jim Christenson Networks that integrate academic and clinical activities are developing across Canada. The University of British Columbia, Department of Emergency Medicine, is leading the planning and implementation of a network that integrates clinician researchers and clinical experts with all practitioners in emergency medicine across the province. The intention is to facilitate emergency practitioners supporting emergency practitioners in remote to tertiary care settings to deliver best practices to patients in all BC eme...
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Implementing comprehensive population-accountable health networks in Quebec
This article examines the challenges encountered in the context of this reform and outlines key issues facing network management and governance to achieve the Triple Aim. (Source: Healthcare Management Forum)
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Improving the performance of interorganizational networks for preventing chronic disease: Identifying and acting on research needs
This article describes the role of interorganizational networks in chronic disease prevention and an action research agenda for promoting understanding and improvement. Through a model of engaged scholarship, leaders with expertise and experience in chronic disease prevention networks helped shape research directions focused on network value, governance, and evolution. The guiding principles for facilitating this research include applying existing knowledge, developing network-appropriate methods and measures, creating structural change, promoting an impact orientation, and fostering cultural change. (Source: Healthcare Management Forum)
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Taking a value network from concept to reality: Canadian Health Leadership Network (A case study)
This article describes, in a step-by-step way, how the value network concept has been put to work to increase leadership capacity through the Canadian Health Leadership Network (CHLNet). The three phases in evolving the network are described: start-up, value creation, and consolidation phases. This is a case study that underscores the fact that networks are best facilitated rather than administered; that trust and reciprocity are the twin pillars for sustaining any network; and that leadership without ownership can be a driving force behind the success of a value network. (Source: Healthcare Management Forum)
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Un message du r édacteur en chef invité
Publication date: Autumn 2014 Source:Healthcare Management Forum, Volume 27, Issue 3 Author(s): Ron Lindstrom (Source: Healthcare Management Forum)
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
A message from the Guest Editor
Publication date: Autumn 2014 Source:Healthcare Management Forum, Volume 27, Issue 3 Author(s): Ron Lindstrom (Source: Healthcare Management Forum)
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Improving leadership through values-based decisions
Publication date: Winter 2014 Source:Healthcare Management Forum, Volume 27, Issue 4 Author(s): Katherine Duthie, Ken Bond, Don Juzwishin (Source: Healthcare Management Forum)
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Do we adapt so slowly that the public loses the privilege of running its own system?
Publication date: Winter 2014 Source:Healthcare Management Forum, Volume 27, Issue 4 Author(s): Colin Goodfellow There is a soft consensus on what the health system׳s characteristics should be, the firmer view on the recurring barriers to change, and how all of this, save for the digital backbone element, could have been written 30 years ago. It is this chronic system stasis when change is urgently needed that casts doubt on the public administration of health services. (Source: Healthcare Management Forum)
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Hospitals in the digital age
Publication date: Winter 2014 Source:Healthcare Management Forum, Volume 27, Issue 4 Author(s): Ron Sapsford A radical reformulation of the function of hospitals and the resulting impact on the healthcare system requires significant professional, legislative, policy and funding changes. What factors are important to consider? Can it be done? (Source: Healthcare Management Forum)
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Provincial and regional accountability for performance is critical in non-integrated health systems
Publication date: Winter 2014 Source:Healthcare Management Forum, Volume 27, Issue 4 Author(s): Michael Sherar Clinical integration based on care paths and clinical information at the patient level is critical to ensure quality care. Moreover, effective clinical integration can occur in non-integrated health delivery systems. However, one of the challenges of a lack of integration at the system level is that no one organization or provider is responsible for an individual patient׳s journey. For the benefits of local clinical integration to be realized, clear accountability for performance at the regional and provincial...
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Finding economies of scale and coordination of care along the continuum to achieve true system integration
Publication date: Winter 2014 Source:Healthcare Management Forum, Volume 27, Issue 4 Author(s): Maura Davies Is it time to reduce hospitals and replace them with digitally enabled distributed specialty service delivery channels that focus on ambulatory care, urgent care, and patient reactivation? Is delivery system integration immaterial if care is standardized and supported by integrated information systems? Maybe Lean methodology needs to be applied across the entire delivery systems, not just within its component functions and processes. Comments are offered on each of these perspectives. (Source: Healthcare Management Forum)
Source: Healthcare Management Forum - May 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
