Call for Papers
Annual Review of Health Care Management:
revisiting the evolution of health systems organization
Deadline for 1-page Proposal: January 16, 2013
Deadline for Initial Manuscript Submission: March 1, 2013
Series Editors: Jim Goes, PhD, Cybernos and University of Oregon, jim@cybernos.com
Grant T. Savage, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, gsavage@uab.edu
Leonard Friedman, PhD, George Washington University, friedmal@gwu.edu
Advances in Health Care Management, a biannual research series published by Emerald Publishing Group, is pleased to announce a volume that revisits two seminal articles and re-examines their themes in health care management. Two of the most cited articles published in Advances in Health Care Management are "Complexity Science and Health Care Management" and "Responding to a Consolidating Healthcare System: Options for Physician Organizations," published in 2001 and 2000, respectively. In Volume 15, Reuben McDaniel and L. Robert Burns, the lead authors of these two articles, will revisit the themes raised over a decade ago in light of current regulatory and organizational evolution in health care, including the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act of 2010, the growth of Accountable Care Organizations, and the increasing consolidation of health systems. We invite you to join them in contributing to this volume on the evolution of health systems organization.
Publication of Volume 15 is planned for the fall of 2013.
Since the late 1980s, health systems and health organizations have undergone dramatic changes in organizational structure, systems, and processes. These changes have included the development of large, integrated health organizations, designed to provide scale and scope advantages, improve the quality of care and health outcomes, and provide greater bargaining power relative to payers and large employers. One result of this effort has been consolidation of health systems and physician-health organizations, and dramatic changes in relationships and practices between hospitals and physicians as a means of improving financial and clinical outcomes. The scope and nature of this transition has created greater complexity and size in consolidated health systems, leading to greater interest in understanding hospitals and health systems as complex systems.
Researchers of health systems and organizations have devoted substantial effort to understanding the processes and outcomes of organizational and system change in healthcare. In this volume, we focus on two influential themes that emerged from this effort:
- Creation and organization of physician-health organizations, and alignment of these organizations with hospital or system structure and governance; and
- Viewing health care organizations as complex systems, leading to new perspectives on design and management of these organizations.
We are interested in both empirical and conceptual reviews of these two anchor themes, including topics such as the following:
· Models or conceptual approaches that view hospitals or health networks as complex systems;
· Alternative delivery systems and innovative organizational designs, such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) or Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH);
· Changes in financial or clinical outcomes resulting from innovative organizational designs;
· Changes in health outcomes following health system strategic change;
· Integrated systems or hospital networks and performance;
· The influence of current and future regulatory or policy changes (e.g., Affordable Care Act) on healthcare organization or design;
· Determinants of successful change strategies in health organizations
Guidelines
Review articles should orient new and established scholars about current themes within an area of research, as well as emerging themes and divergent views. Authors should evaluate these future directions and offer their perspective on the direction or directions that would help build theory and improve the practice of health care management.
Key Dates
All competitively submitted proposals and papers will be double-blind reviewed; invited papers will be reviewed by the editor.
January 16, 2013: 1-page proposal due
March 1, 2013: Draft manuscripts due
April 15, 2013: Reviews returned to authors
May 15, 2013: Final manuscripts due
June 1, 2013: Final Editorial Decisions Made
AHCM volume 15 delivered to publisher
October 30, 2013: AHCM volume 15 published
All papers will be double-blind reviewed. The editors will select the papers for this review volume on a competitive basis, based on the recommendations of the reviewers. Specific guidelines for submission are provided on the next page. Your email should request that the manuscript be specifically considered for this volume. Abstracts of proposed papers are strongly encouraged. Both the proposal abstract and the manuscript should be prepared in MS Word and submitted to jim@cybernos.com.
The complete call for papers including submission guidelines is attached.
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Jim Goes
Cybernos, LLC
( 541.767.9759 Pacific TZ
* jim@cybernos.com