Creating a High-Reliability Health Care System

Making noncatastrophic health care processes reliable: Learning to walk before running in creating high-reliability organizations.

Health care clinicians successfully apply proven medical evidence in common acute, chronic, or preventive care processes less than 80 percent of the time. This low level of reliability at the basic process level means that health care's efforts to improve reliability start from a different baseline from most other industries, and therefore may require a different approach. This paper describes ...

Creating integrated health care

It was the ambition of this thesis to contribute to the growing interest in integrated care and to the ongoing research in this area by exploring the Swedish development of integrated health care. The general purpose was to study different strategies to improve integration in the Swedish health care system in order to identify some of the key issues and conditions in the creation of integrated ...

Health Care Reform: Creating a Sustainable Health Care Marketplace

Creating high reliability organization using mindfulness

______________________________________________________________________________ High Reliability Organizations (HROs) are organizations with processes that have extremely low failure rates, because the costs of failures are extremely high. According to Weick, et al. (2008) key aspects of HROs are: preoccupation with failure, reluctance to simplify, sensitivity to operations, among others. While ...

Co-Creating an Expansive Health Care Learning System.

How should practices of co-creation be integrated into health professions education? Although co-creation permits a variety of interpretations, we argue that realizing a transformative vision of co-creation-one that invites professionals to genuinely reconsider the purposes, relationships, norms, and priorities of health care systems through new forms of collaborative thought and practice-will ...