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Applying a System of Systems Approach to Healthcare

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Lean Thinking for Healthcare

Part of the book series: Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age ((Healthcare Delivery Inform. Age))

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Many challenges in today’s twenty-first century such as the energy crisis regarding fossil fuels and the financial crisis require new approaches and management techniques. System of systems and system of systems engineering have presented themselves as key approaches to address problems related to complex, dynamic systems and how best to manage them effectively and efficiently. Healthcare systems are complex and currently facing several challenges. The following chapter serves to explore the application of a system of systems approach to healthcare, i.e., a healthcare system of systems (HSoS). Specifically, a HSoS is defined as a collection of independent, large-scale complex, distributed systems. HSoS exhibit operational and managerial independence, geographic distribution, and evolutionary development. Furthermore, a HSoS perspective is imperative in order to realize network-centric healthcare operations, as the chapter discusses.

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  1. MIS Department, School of Business and Technology, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, 900 Wood Rd, Kenosha, WI, 53141–2000, USA

    Suresh Chalasani

  2. Epworth HealthCare & Department of BITL & HIRi, RMIT University, 2476, Melbourne, VIC, 3001, Australia

    Nilmini Wickramasinghe Ph.D., M.B.A.

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  1. RMIT University, School of Business Information Technolog, Melbourne VIC, Australia

    Nilmini Wickramasinghe

  2. University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

    Latif Al-Hakim

  3. Department of Urology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Chris Gonzalez

  4. DeGroote School Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Joseph Tan

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Chalasani, S., Wickramasinghe, N. (2014). Applying a System of Systems Approach to Healthcare. In: Wickramasinghe, N., Al-Hakim, L., Gonzalez, C., Tan, J. (eds) Lean Thinking for Healthcare. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8036-5_16

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