12 Reflections ■ Volume 6, Number 4/5 reflections.solonline.org Are Healthcare Organizations LearningDisabled? In our work, my colleagues and I have found that the organizational dynamics in hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare organizations tend to include an overemphasis on advocacy, power and control, personal agendas, blame, and other fear-based dynamics. Although it is true that...

In healthcare, a promising direction for innovation lies in harnessing the innovation potential of patients. Web-based platforms have created a new and powerful route to open innovation in healthcare. In a sector where knowledge resources within organizational boundaries are limited, this study is focused on understanding how online innovation intermediaries (OIIs) in healthcare help to transfe...

In a January 31, 2003 letter to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) (Footnote 2) commenting on its proposed new standards, leaders of the hospital bar made their position clear (Footnote 3). According to them, the medical staff is not an independent, self-governing body -it is just a part of the hospital, like the dietary department. In their view, the medi...

While the adoption of computer systems is pervasive in most industries, few healthcare organizations have implemented electronic health record systems. Security is a major issue for these healthcare organizations. Security concerns include breaches of privacy and medical identity theft. This article uses a hybrid technology acceptance model (TAM) to explore why healthcare organizations are slow...

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pierre-gerlier forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. in this commentary, i develop an additional argument in support of forest et al view. forest et al rightly point to the need to have embedded policy experts to successfully translate healthcare reform policy into healthcare change. translation of externally generated i...

Organizational ethics is an emerging field concerned with the study and practice of the ethical behaviour of organizations. For effective application to healthcare settings, we argue that organizational ethics requires attention to organizations' special characteristics combined with tools borrowed from the fields of business ethics and bioethics. We identify and discuss several implications of...

A CHARITABLE PURPOSE The history of tax exemption of healthcare organizations has implications for the future. Our nation's first healthcare facilities were exempt from the earliest tax laws because they were seen as clearly having a charitable purpose, providing care and shelter for the sick poor who had no place else to go. The tax code has never specified that healthcare organizations such a...

Patient visits various organizations or units within organizations to get proper diagnosis and treatment. The role of healthcare workflowmanagement by use of IT is to adjust the contributions of those organizations or units in terms of timing, quality and functionality. Some of these difficulties can be traced back to the heterogeneous nature of healthcare organizations. Professionals require a...