Leading the Global Healthcare Organization

Global collaborative healthcare: assessing the resource requirements at a leading Academic Medical Center

INTRODUCTION Academic Medical Centers ("AMCs") have served as a hub of the United States ("US") health system and represented the state-of-the art in American health care for well over a century. Currently, the global healthcare market is both massive and expanding and is being altered by the unprecedented impact of technological advances and globalization. This provides AMCs a platform to ente...

Leading Structured Organization in the DynamicInformation Age

T HE ADVENT OF THE INFORMATION AGE has provided a wealth of technological advances and opportunities. However, the U.S. military continues to function as a structured, hierarchical organization surrounded by a complex, globally connected, and dynamic environment. A majority of service person-nel—younger men and women—are from the millennial generation; they are accustomed to a society of inform...

Organization ethics in healthcare.

Bioethics, clinical ethics, and professional ethics are mature, welldeveloped fields of applied ethics that focus on medical research, patient autonomy and patient care, patient– healthcare professional relationships, and issues that arise in clinical and other medical settings. However, despite these developments, little attention has been paid to the organizational aspects of healthcare in th...

Global organization of the lexicon

Genetics and global healthcare.

During the course of the last decade there has been extensive discussion on the role of genetics and genomics in global healthcare, with major diagnostic advances regularly announced, such as exome sequencing to identify and classify de novo, autosomal and X-linked mutations in people with severe intellectual disability,1 and whole-genome sequencing for prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal anomali...