Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 30 Issue 6

Rethinking gossip and scandal in healthcare organizations

Kathryn Waddington

The purpose of this paper is to argue that gossip is a neglected aspect of organizational communication and knowledge, and an under-used management resource.

Implementation of the affordable care act: a case study of a service line co-management company

Bethany Lanese

The purpose of this paper is to test and measure the outcome of a community hospital in implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) through a co-management arrangement. RQ1: do the…

The performance of primary health care organizations depends on interdependences with the local environment

Paul Lamarche, Lara Maillet

Improving the performance of health care organizations is now perceived as essential in order to better address the needs of the populations and respect their ability to pay for…

Interorganizational collaboration in public health data sharing

Colleen Casey, Jianling Li, Michele Berry

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the institutional and social forces that influence collaborative data sharing practices in cross-sector interorganizational networks. The…

What factors determine the choice of public engagement undertaken by health technology assessment decision-making organizations?

Sally Wortley, Jackie Street, Wendy Lipworth, Kirsten Howard

Public engagement in health technology assessment (HTA) is increasingly considered crucial for good decision making. Determining the “right” type of engagement activity is key in…

Formal priority setting in health care: the Swedish experience

Peter Garpenby, Karin Bäckman

From the late 1980s and onwards health care in Sweden has come under increasing financial pressure, forcing policy makers to consider restrictions. The purpose of this paper is to…

Measuring distributed leadership agency in a hospital context: Development and validation of a new scale

Thomas Jønsson, Christine Unterrainer, Hans-Jeppe Jeppesen, Ajay Kumar Jain

The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate an instrument that can measure distributed leadership (DL) as employees’ active participation in DL tasks. The authors…

Alignment of governance and senior executive perceptions of culture: Implications on healthcare performance

Evelyn Suk Yi Looi, Richard Greatbanks, André M. Everett

The purpose of this paper is to examine the alignment of perceived organizational culture between Health Board chairs and Board members with that of their respective senior…

Process redesign for time-based emergency admission targets: Staff perceptions of the impact on quality of care

Sandra G. Leggat, Richard Gough, Timothy Bartram, Pauline Stanton, Greg J. Bamber, Ruth Ballardie, Amrik Sohal

Hospitals have used process redesign to increase the efficiency of the emergency department (ED) to cope with increasing demand. While there are published studies suggesting a…

Developing an evaluation framework for clinical redesign programs: lessons learnt

Premaratne Samaranayake, Ann Dadich, Anneke Fitzgerald, Kathryn Zeitz

The purpose of this paper is to present lessons learnt through the development of an evaluation framework for a clinical redesign programme – the aim of which was to improve the…

Grassroots inter-professional networks: the case of organizing care for older cancer patients

Fatou Farima Bagayogo, Annick Lepage, Jean-Louis Denis, Lise Lamothe, Liette Lapointe, Isabelle Vedel

The purpose of this paper of inter-professional networks is to analyze the evolution of relationships between professional groups enacting new forms of collaboration to address…

Key success factors behind electronic medical record adoption in Thailand

Kanida Narattharaksa, Mark Speece, Charles Newton, Damrongsak Bulyalert

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the elements that health care personnel in Thailand believe are necessary for successful adoption of electronic medical record (EMR…

Comparing the implementation consequences of the immunisation and emergency department health targets in New Zealand: A tale of two targets

Tim Tenbensel, Linda Chalmers, Esther Willing

Over the last decade there has been considerable debate about the merits of targets as a policy instrument. The purpose of this paper is to examine the implementation of two…