Principles for implementing modularity in healthcare

R. Soffers; Bert Meijboom; J. Hsuan

Principles for implementing modularity in healthcare

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Abstract

Modularity can help address urgent societal needs of cost reductions and improved patient centeredness in healthcare, but has only rarely been implemented in that sector. We propound that this is at least partially due to the lack of guidance on reorganizations of existing healthcare offerings in a modular way. We identify three principles to do so: 1) the service architecture should be decomposable; 2) a proper service specification process should be introduced; and 3) the presence of interfaces should be ensured. Following these principles should help policy makers as well as managers to implement modularity in existing healthcare offerings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 23nd EurOMA Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Interactions
Editors	H. Dreyer, T.H. Netland, J.O. Strandhagen
Place of Publication	Trondheim
Pages	1-9
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - Jun 2016
Event	23rd EurOMA conference - Norwegian University of Science and Technology , Trondheim, Norway Duration: 17 Jun 2016 → 22 Jun 2016

Conference

Conference	23rd EurOMA conference
Abbreviated title	EurOMA 2016
Country/Territory	Norway
City	Trondheim
Period	17/06/16 → 22/06/16

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