Boundaryless Hospital

This book discusses current health care challenges and new strategies for innovative solutions in this area from an interdisciplinary perspective of health care management, business economics, and medicine. It presents the idea of a “boundaryless hospital”, a conceptual model of a patient-centric, value-based health network that overcomes typical sectorial, organizational, and geographical boundaries and offers greater efficiency and better quality outcomes for patients.

Effective health care for a growing and aging population is a major challenge for economies all over the world. New breakthroughs in medical technology and pharmaceuticals as well as digitization provide scope for more efficiency and for a better quality of health care. Novel organization forms and management concepts are key for coping with the increasing cost pressure observed in most health care systems. The contributions in this volume present innovative strategies for developing and implementing the concept of a boundaryless hospital. They highlight experiences from various countries and with different treatments.

The book project was initiated and carried out by the Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM), the interdisciplinary research center of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management for business administration in the 21^st century.

Part I: Challenges and Opportunities of Health Care Management in the 21st Century.- Network Management as a Strategic Option for the Boundaryless Hospital.- Cancer Care: New Value Chains Challenge German Hospital Structures.- Health Care under Market Conditions from an Ethical Point of View.- Part II: Seizing the Opportunities across Countries and Sub-disciplines.- Pathways towards Health Care Systems with a Chronic-care Focus.- The Importance of Time in Developing a Boundaryless Hospital.- Networked Care: IT-Assisted Tools (Wearable Sensors) for Patients at Risk.- Carving Out a Place for New Health Care Occupations.- Personalized Medicine Challenges the Health Care System.- Part III: Meeting the Challenges.- Measuring Performance in Hospitals.- The “Boundaryless Hospital” Through Risk Management Approach: A Case Study of the Accident and Emergency Unit of a Tertiary-care Hospital in Malta.- Leveraging the Value for Health Care Providers Using Clinical Workflow Analytics.- Role andFunction of the Emergency Department in a Boundaryless Hospital.- Stakeholder Involvement Transcends Boundaries in University Hospitals.- The Hospital Situation for Diseases Requiring Sophisticated Examinations Using Epilepsy as an Example.- Identifying the Adoption Process for Electronic Health Services.- Infection Prevention Networks and the Role of the Boundaryless Hospital.- Part IV: The Boundaryless Hospital from the Patients’ Perspective.- From Community Analysis to Prototype: Creating and Online Matchmaker for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients.- Patients’ Complaints and Managers’ Responses as a Process of Institutional Interaction.- Innovations by and for Patients, and their Place in the Future Health Care System.