An Adaptive Healthcare Organization Can Effectively Respond to Medical Crises

Jocelyn Carter; Harry Burke

doi:10.3389/ijph.2023.1605581

An Adaptive Healthcare Organization Can Effectively Respond to Medical Crises

Int J Public Health. 2023 Aug 11:68:1605581. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2023.1605581. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Jocelyn Carter¹, Harry Burke²

Affiliations

¹ Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
² Department of Medicine, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States.

Abstract

Healthcare systems are challenged by unexpected medical crises. Established frameworks and approaches to guide healthcare institutions during these crises are limited in their effectiveness. We propose an Adaptive Healthcare Organization (AHO) system as a framework focused on the dynamic nature of healthcare delivery. Based on seven key capabilities, the AHO framework can guide single and multi-institutional healthcare organizations to adapt in real time to an unexpected medical crisis and improve their efficiency and effectiveness.

Keywords: COVID; adaptive healthcare organization; coronavirus; medical crisis; pandemic.

MeSH terms

Delivery of Health Care* / organization & administration
Efficiency, Organizational*
Health Facilities*

Grants and funding

K23 HL150287/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States