Organizing for sustainable health care (Emerald, 2012)
Organizing for sustainable health care : introduction to volume 2 / Susan Albers Mohrman, Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, Christopher G. Worley -- ch. 1. Organizing for sustainable health care : the emerging global challenge / Susan Albers Mohrman, Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, Arienne McCracken -- ch. 2. Organizing for agile and sustainable health care : the Alegent Health case / Christopher G. Worley -- ch. 3. Designing for health : learning from Kaiser Permanente / Susan Albers Mohrman, Michael H. Kanter -- ch. 4. Can technology enable sustainable effectiveness in health care delivery? : some lessons from a rehabilitation hospital / Emanuele Lettieri, Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, Annachiara Longoni, Raffaella Cagliano, Cristina Masella, Franco Molteni -- ch. 5. Using adaptive and disruptive change strategies to create an integrated delivery system : Montefiore Medical Center's experience / Peter Lazes, Liana Katz, Maria Figueroa, Arun Karpur -- ch. 6. The path to sustainability in health care : exploring the role of learning microsystems / Svante Lifvergren, Ulla Andin, Tony Huzzard, Andreas Hellström -- ch. 7. implementing a new cancer control programme in Ireland : a case of sustainable large-scale change? / Eilish McAuliffe, Tony OBrien, David Coghlan -- ch. 8. Learning to organize for sustainable health care : rigor, reflection and relevance / Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, Susan Albers Mohrman
Healthcare, as it is currently organized, is not sustainable. Healthcare systems in the developed world are encountering increased demand for high quality healthcare but facing societal resource limits. Healthcare 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 healthcare priorities. Healthcare is inextricably linked to the overall sustainability of society and it is critical that solutions are found. The chapters in this volume examine healthcare systems that are building the foundations for sustainable, high quality healthcare. 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 healthcare systems need in order to implement fundamental change and continue to improve over time