Enhancing Collaborative Healthcare Synergy

Abstract

Abstract. Worldwide, the constant ageing of the population brings significant challenges to the traditional style of health care systems. Rapidly spreading pandemics triggered by new disease strains, increased population mobility and displacements fuelled by conflict and climate change add another dimension to the health care predicament. In this context, proper cooperation and interoperability of the participants in the healthcare effort becomes paramount. Collaboration is an essential factor but also a major challenge, as typically healthcare institutions are hierarchical and heterogeneous, owing to various administrative, geographical and historical reasons. As the pressure on healthcare availability, quality and cost is constantly increasing, governments can no longer rely on traditional models for managing population wellbeing. Innovative holistic and integrated models and procedures taking into account all essential aspects, elements, participants and their life cycle are necessary if these challenges are to be successfully met. Based on previous research and applications, this paper argues that such necessary artefacts can be built using a life cycle-based whole-system paradigm enabled by advances in Collaborative Networks and Enterprise Architecture. This approach aims to provide a sound platform for efficient response delivered by agile and synergic teams to short and long-term challenges to population health and well-being.

A possible conceptualization of the information systems (IS) artifact: A general systems theory perspective1

“…First, the conception of synergy is inherent in achieving a compelling delivery of healthcare services (Jadad, Haynes, Hunt, & Browman, 2000). Efficient and effective delivery of healthcare services need collaborative synergy between the social aspects of the system (such as patients and healthcare providers) using technologies that are at their disposal (Noran, 2013). Chronic disease management programmes, for example, often develop their efficacy based upon how well individuals can synergistically embed the technologies in their daily routine (Jiang & Cameron, 2020).…”

Digital Transformation of Virtual Enterprises for Providing Collaborative Services in Smart Cities

“…Therefore, VE has become essential for continuous business survival in emergent business sector to increase competitiveness, optimize resource use, and increase business scale [14]. But, to achieve an interoperability, responsiveness and agility of VE operations [17], in smart city, a method is needed to provide modelling concepts that support the illustration of VE business process across different layers, granularity, abstraction and phases [18]. Currently, there is limited methods that mainly facilitate the modelling of VE business models in a holistic approach [19].…”

Leveraging on Enterprise Building Information Models in Health Care Services: The Case of St. Olav University Hospital

“…Collaborative networks in the health care operations have been addressed by researchers; e.g. Noran analysed the collaborative networks in various tasks performed in hospital operations, where the focus was on the collaboration among different stakeholders [20]. Collaborative Networks in healthcare and interactions across different heath care institutions in processes such as request for investigations and information and physical material (e.g.…”