@inbook{bb22f49c97ae4350809de8e5dba2c823,
title = "Health care organizations as complex systems: New perspectives on design and management",
abstract = "Purpose - We discuss the impact of complexity science on the design and management of health care organizations over the past decade. We provide an overview of complexity science issues and their impact on thinking about health care systems, particularly with the rising importance of information systems. We also present a complexity science perspective on current issues in today's health care organizations and suggest ways that this perspective might help in approaching these issues. Approach - We review selected research, focusing on work in which we participated, to identify specific examples of applications of complexity science. We then take a look at information systems in health care organizations from a complexity viewpoint.",
keywords = "Complex adaptive system, Complexity science, HCO design, HCO information systems, HCO interdependencies, HCO management",
author = "McDaniel, {Reuben R.} and Driebe, {Dean J.} and Lanham, {Holly Jordan}",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1108/S1474-8231(2013)0000015007",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781783507153",
series = "Advances in Health Care Management",
publisher = "JAI Press",
pages = "3--26",
booktitle = "Annual Review of Health Care Management",
address = "United States",
}