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EFFECTIVE LEARNING NETWORKS IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Nov 2008, Pages: 240
Today, health care organizations (HCOs) face a new
era of 'value driven health care purchasing,' which
emphasizes: 1) quality reporting and transparency,
2) health IT adoption, 3) pay-for
performance, and 4) systems improvement.
What are the defining characteristics (i.e.,
structures and systems) of HCOs that learn to adapt
to such a dramatically changing environment? This
work addresses this and other questions by focusing
on one of the four areas of value-driven health
care, i.e., quality reporting.
A critical task for managers in complex systems has
been said to be the creation of effective structures
for knowledge sharing and collective learning. This
work integrates complex systems theory and knowledge
network theory to develop a framework for
understanding the structure of effective knowledge
sharing networks in HCOs. The framework is then used
to evaluate knowledge sharing and learning
structures of HCOs, from the perspective of their
performance in quality reporting.
This work should be of interest to both scholars and
practitioners of health care management, including
professors of health management and directors of
quality improvement.
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