Designing Integrated Care Ecosystems: A Socio-Technical Perspective
Intro -- Foreword -- Preface and an Invitation -- Our Dream and Our Invitation -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Foundations -- Introduction -- References -- Why Do We Need Integrated Care? -- 1 Past and Present -- 2 Integrated Care Outcomes -- 3 Current Strategies -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Integrated Care Ecosystems -- 1 Beyond Organizations and Networks -- 2 Ecosystems -- 2.1 An Ecological Metaphor -- 2.2 Ecosystems Consists of Actors and Their Relations -- 2.3 Why Ecosystem Purpose Matters -- 2.4 Each Ecosystem Has an Ecosystem Niche -- 2.5 Ecosystem Actors Perform Activities -- 2.6 An Ecosystem Has Multiple Levels -- 3 Ecosystem Definition -- 4 Care Networks or Care Ecosystems? -- 4.1 Purpose -- 4.2 Composition -- 4.3 Integration -- 4.4 Governance -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Designing from a Socio-Technical Systems Perspective -- 1 Chapter Overview -- 2 What Is Meant by Design? -- 2.1 Design -- 2.2 Designing -- 2.3 What Gets Designed? -- 2.4 Who Designs? -- 2.5 The Socio-technical System Design Perspective -- 3 Integrated Care as an Issue of Organizing -- 3.1 The Coherence Between Things -- 3.2 Boundaries for Redesign -- 3.3 Care Processes and Activities -- 3.4 Fragmentation of the Care Ecosystem -- 4 STS Principles for Designing -- 4.1 STS Design Process -- 5 Can Ecosystems Be Designed? -- 6 Summary and Transition to Part II -- References -- Case Stories -- Connected Relationships: Development and Implementation of an Integrated Care Ecosystem Within the United Kingdom -- 1 Challenges Triggering the Need for Ecosystem Design -- 1.1 Key Terms and Concepts: Moving Beyond Networks to Whole Ecosystems -- 2 Theory Applied to the Challenge -- 2.1 Integration at the National Level Within the United Kingdom -- 2.2 Integrated Care Ecosystems -- 3 Method.