Table of contents - Special Issue: Boundary organising in health care
Guest Editors: Roman Kislov, Gill Harvey, Lorelei Jones
Boundary organising in healthcare: theoretical perspectives, empirical insights and future prospects
Roman Kislov, Gill Harvey, Lorelei JonesThe purpose of this paper is to introduce a special issue on boundary organising in healthcare bringing together a selection of six leading papers accepted for presentation at the…
Implementing disruptive technological change in UK healthcare: exploring development of a smart phone app for remote patient monitoring as a boundary object using qualitative methods
Charlotte A. Sharp, Mike Bresnen, Lynn Austin, Jillian McCarthy, William G. Dixon, Caroline SandersDeveloping technological innovations in healthcare is made complex and difficult due to effects upon the practices of professional, managerial and other stakeholders. Drawing upon…
Prioritising the mobilisation of emergency medical services: patient making at the healthcare gateway
Davina AllenThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the socio-material practices through which organisational understanding of patients is accomplished in order to prioritise calls and…
Metaphors of organizations in patient involvement programs: connections and contradictions
Paula Rowland, Carol Fancott, Julia AbelsonIn this paper, we contribute to the theorizing of patient involvement in organizational improvement by exploring concepts of “learning from patients” as mechanisms of…
Concealing paradoxes in decision-making during hospital hybridization – a systems theoretical analysis
Kaisu Jansson, Juha Tuunainen, Tuija MainelaWhile previous health-care-related hybridity research has focused on macro- and micro-level investigations, this paper aims to study hybridization at the organizational level…
Working towards health equity for ethnic minority elders: spanning the boundaries of neighbourhood governance
Hanna Carlsson, Roos PijpersThis paper analyses how neighbourhood governance of social care affects the scope for frontline workers to address health inequities of older ethnic minorities. We critically…
Regionalization in elderly care: what makes up a healthcare region?
Jitse Jonne Schuurmans, Nienke van Pijkeren, Roland Bal, Iris WallenburgThe purpose of this paper is to explore the formation and composition of “regions” as places of care, both empirically and conceptually.
