Boundaryless hospital : rethink and redefine health care management / Horst Albach, Heribert Meffert, Andreas Pinkwart, Ralf Reichwald, Wilfried von Eiff, Editors

This book discusses current health care challenges and new strategies for innovative solutions in this area from an interdisciplinary perspective of health care management, business economics, and medicine. It presents the idea of a “boundaryless hospital”, a conceptual model of a patient-centric, value-based health network that overcomes typical sectorial, organizational, and geographical boundaries and offers greater efficiency and better quality outcomes for patients. Effective health care for a growing and aging population is a major challenge for economies all over the world. New breakthroughs in medical technology and pharmaceuticals as well as digitization provide scope for more efficiency and for a better quality of health care. Novel organization forms and management concepts are key for coping with the increasing cost pressure observed in most health care systems. The contributions in this volume present innovative strategies for developing and implementing the concept of a boundaryless hospital. They highlight experiences from various countries and with different treatments. The book project was initiated and carried out by the Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM), the interdisciplinary research center of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management for business administration in the 21 st century. Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Network Management: Strategic Option for the Boundaryless Hospital....Pages 3-20 Cancer Care: New Value Chains Challenge German Hospital Structures—A Comprehensive Cancer Center Perspective....Pages 21-40 Health Care Under Market Conditions: An Ethical Analysis....Pages 41-56 Front Matter....Pages 57-57 Pathways Towards Health Care Systems with a Chronic-Care Focus: Beyond the Four Walls....Pages 59-80 The Importance of Time in Developing a Boundaryless Hospital: An Example from Northern Portugal....Pages 81-101 Networked Care: IT-Assisted Tools (Wearable Sensors) for Patients at Risk....Pages 103-118 Carving Out a Place for New Health Care Occupations: An Ethnographic Study into Job Crafting....Pages 119-141 Personalized Medicine Challenges the Health Care System....Pages 143-155 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 Measuring Performance in Hospitals: The Development of an Operational Dashboard to Coordinate and Optimize Patient, Material and Information Flows....Pages 159-181 The Boundaryless Hospital Through Risk Management Approach: A Case Study of the A&E Unit of a Tertiary-Care Hospital in Malta....Pages 183-199 Leveraging the Value for Health Care Providers Using Clinical Workflow Analytics....Pages 201-209 Role and Function of the Emergency Department in a Boundaryless Hospital: Optimizing the Process Flow....Pages 211-234 Stakeholder Involvement Transcends Boundaries in University Hospitals....Pages 235-248 The Hospital Situation for Diseases Requiring Sophisticated Examinations Using Epilepsy as an Example....Pages 249-255 Identifying the Adoption Process for Electronic Health Services: A Qualitative Study....Pages 257-275 Infection Prevention Networks and the Role of the Boundaryless Hospital....Pages 277-291 Front Matter....Pages 293-293 From Community Analysis to Prototype: Creating an Online Matchmaker for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients....Pages 295-320 Patients’ Complaints and Managers’ Responses as a Process of Institutional Interaction....Pages 321-340 Innovations by and for Patients, and Their Place in the Future Health Care System....Pages 341-357 Back Matter....Pages 359-360 "This book discusses current health care challenges and new strategies for innovative solutions in this area from an interdisciplinary perspective of health care management, business economics, and medicine. It presents the idea of a "boundaryless hospital", a conceptual model of a patient-centric, value-based health network that overcomes typical sectorial, organizational, and geographical boundaries and offers greater efficiency and better quality outcomes for patients. Effective health care for a growing and aging population is a major challenge for economies all over the world. New breakthroughs in medical technology and pharmaceuticals as well as digitization provide scope for more efficiency and for a better quality of health care. Novel organization forms and management concepts are key for coping with the increasing cost pressure observed in most health care systems. The contributions in this volume present innovative strategies for developing and implementing the concept of a boundaryless hospital. They highlight experiences from various countries and with different treatments. The book project was initiated and carried out by the Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM), the interdisciplinary research center of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management for business administration in the 21st century." -- Back cover This book discusses current health care challenges and new strategies for innovative solutions in this area from an interdisciplinary perspective of health care management, business economics, and medicine. It presents the idea of a ĺlboundaryless hospitalĺl, a conceptual model of a patient-centric, value-based health network that overcomes typical sectorial, organizational, and geographical boundaries and offers greater efficiency and better quality outcomes for patients. Effective health care for a growing and aging population is a major challenge for economies all over the world. New breakthroughs in medical technology and pharmaceuticals as well as digitization provide scope for more efficiency and for a better quality of health care. Novel organization forms and management concepts are key for coping with the increasing cost pressure observed in most health care systems. The contributions in this volume present innovative strategies for developing and implementing the concept of a boundaryless hospital. They highlight experiences from various countries and with different treatments. The book project was initiated and carried out by the Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM), the interdisciplinary research center of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management for business administration in the 21st century