Managing Complexity in Healthcare

Lesley Kuhn, Kieran Le Plastrier

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English

Routledge
29 January 2024

Economics; Research & development management; Organisational theory & behaviour; Public ownership & nationalisation; Health systems & services

Series: Routledge Focus on Business and Management

Managing Complexity in Healthcare introduces the ComEntEth (Complex Entropic Ethical) model as an integrated bio-medical and philosophical approach to understanding how people get things done in healthcare. Drawing on the complexity sciences, studies of entropy in living organisms and the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, healthcare is theorised as energetic relational exchanges between people as entropic and ethical entities that unfold around a central attractor: Reduction in elevated entropy or suffering in patients.

Living entities are engaged in a continuous struggle against the tendency to produce entropy. From the cellular to the collective of human endeavours, the tendency of complex systems is to disorder and decay. Yet in the micro-activity of healthcare enterprise, people resist this tendency by expending energy to create order and sustain life. Making sense of how this miraculous work is made possible is the foundation of this book.

Through practical examples – from analysis of practitioner burnout, rural and remote healthcare, the functioning of emergency departments, to government, social and institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic – this new integral philosophy provides practitioners, managers, policy designers, and scholars an effective way to understand the dynamics of daily processes and practices that link the micro of everyday interactions with the macro-trends of healthcare.

By: Lesley Kuhn, Kieran Le Plastrier
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032054155
ISBN 10: 1032054158
Series: Routledge Focus on Business and Management
Pages: 124
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

CHAPTER ONE: HEALTHCARE AS COMPLEX, ENTROPIC AND ETHICAL CHAPTER TWO: REDUCING ENTROPY IN PATIENTS AS THE ESSENCE OF HEALTHCARE CHAPTER THREE: IMPROVING ENTROPIC FLOW IN HEALTHCARE ORGANISATIONS CHAPTER FOUR: ENTROPY AND HEALTHCARE IN A PANDEMIC CHAPTER FIVE: AFTERWORD: COMPLEXITY, ENTROPY AND ETHICS IN HEALTHCARE

Dr. Lesley Kuhn is a retired academic, Western Sydney University, Australia. Dr. Kieran Le Plastrier is a family physician and Director of Medical Services at Blackall Hospital, Australia.