Health care systems - an institutional view

Equity in health care and institutional trust: a communitarian view.

Communitarianism acknowledges and values, and not just instrumentally, the bonds that unite and identify communities. Communitarians also value community per se. This paper argues that trust is likely to be stronger in communities where these bonds are greater. Equity in health care is a social phenomenon. In health care, it is apparent that more communitarian societies, such as Scandinavia and...

Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise

An Institutional Theory Perspective on the DRG Framework, Case-Mix Accounting Systems and Health-Care Organizations

Case·mix accounting systems have been advanced as both reflecting the economic reality that underlies a hospital's various "product lines", as defined by DRG prospective payment categories, and fucilitating rational decision making regarding resource acquisition, deployment and use. This article uses the institutional perspective to extend this conceptualization of case-mix accounting systems. ...

An Institutional View on Categorical Logic

We introduce a generic notion of categorical propositional logic and provide a construction of a preorder-enriched institution out of such a logic, following the Curry-Howard-Tait paradigm. The logics are specified as theories of a meta-logic within the logical framework LF such that institution comorphisms are obtained from theory morphisms of the metalogic. We prove several logic-independent ...

The Neo-Institutional View of HIPAA Compliance in Home Health Care

Despite many years since the enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), healthcare providers have been slow to fully comply with the regulatory requirements, especially the privacy and security rules concerning protection of electronic personal health information. Neo-institutional theory, a dominant analytical perspective of organizational behavior, suggests ...