Transforming Healthcare Organizations

Transforming healthcare organizations.

Change in healthcare organizations is a complex task often fraught with unforeseen challenges. Based on the experiences of a multi-site hospital, and drawing on past research on organizational change, the author provides a model to help change leaders. Although relying on Toronto's University Health Network to illustrate the change model, the model is intended to speak to change leaders impleme...

Transforming healthcare organizations: looking back to see the future.

With a strong sense that MOE/MAR and its implementation have been a resounding success, the authors offer a final set of insights for healthcare leaders.

Crossing to safety: transforming healthcare organizations for patient safety.

The current healthcare system is not designed to ensure better patient safety. In addition, healthcare is simultaneously becoming increasingly complex and increasingly fragmented. Medical knowledge and technology are expanding at an incredible rate, making it difficult for the healthcare providers to keep pace with advancing knowledge. Patients' needs are changing too: shifting from the diagnos...

Securing Digital Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare Organizations: a Sensemaking Perspective

Hospitals are adopting advanced messaging systems to facilitate communication among healthcare personnel with the aim of improving patient care. However, users face various challenges in employing these systems, with serious consequences of miscommunication. Nevertheless, past studies on healthcare messaging systems tend to be descriptive with a lack of theoretically grounded and empirical vali...