Multi-level Social Networking to Enable and Foster Collaborative Organizations

Information System Development

2014

Modern healthcare is confronted with serious issues that are threatening its sustainability. Increasing costs and complexity, progressive population ageing and rapidly spreading pandemics triggered by new disease strains and by increased population displacements fuelled by conflicts and climate change are all major contributors to the healthcare quandary. In this context, effective 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 due to various administrative, geographical and historical reasons. As the pressure on healthcare resources and management cost is constantly increasing, governments can no longer rely on information and organisational silo paradigms 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 holistic paradigm enabled by advances in Information Systems, Interoperability, Collaborative Networks and Enterprise Architecture. This approach aims to provide a sound platform for sustainable solutions to both long and short-term challenges to population health and well-being.

Section: Collaborative Network For Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborative Health Informatics: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Information System Development

2014

“…[27,[33][34][35]). While providing valuable data, such attempts appear to have two main shortcomings.…”

Section: A Combined Collaborative Network / Enterprise Architecture Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Collaborative Healthcare Synergy

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

2013

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.

“…The application of the CN principles nowadays is wide -in industry, aged care, medicine, education, defence, but also in areas such as social networking [11], or environmental sustainability and disaster management [12,13]. Interoperability (the lack of which is one of the root causes of standards development inconsistency and overlap problems) is paramount in the efficiency and survival of a CN -therefore it has been extensively researched (see [14] and many others).…”

Section: The Suitability Of a Collaborative Network Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Collaborative Network Model for the Standards Community

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

2012

Abstract. Standards, as agreed-upon norms and requirements about systems, are essential pillars of enterprise and network operation and interoperability. However, standards themselves often display interoperability, inconsistency and overlap problems partly due to the custodian work groups' heterogeneity, the politics involved and limited communication and cooperation. This paper proposes and investigates the use of a Collaborative Network (CN) model in the standards community so as to take advantage of the wealth of knowledge accumulated in this domain, the artefacts built and the lessons learned in practice. Following an introduction and a review of the current issues in standards development, the paper presents the specific features of the CNs and the Virtual Organisations (VOs) they would create in order to tackle standards creation and revision in an integrated and synergistic way. A case study is also used to describe a possible implementation of the CN / VO model in practice and to illustrate the benefits of the proposed approach.