Innovatie en transitie in het gezondheidszorgsysteem

Health(care) systems globally aspire towards the same goals: to provide effective, safe, patient-centered, equitable care, which is sustainable for the future. Healthcare faces multiple challenges, including resource scarcity and rising costs, the problem of unsafe care, and significant circularity concerns through its energy consumption and waste production. How can we facilitate the transition towards a healthcare system that is able to rise to these challenges and deliver good quality care for all?

To answer these questions, we look at the meso-level of health systems: focusing on healthcare provision, quality, assessment, decision-making and financing. You’ll learn what it takes to create change/transition in healthcare systems, and how analytical techniques (such as economic evaluation or MCDM) can help inform and evaluate such changes.

Topics covered are: 

• Drivers in health & care and the identification of healthcare actors, regulations and infrastructure in any country or domain within healthcare.

• The dimensions of quality of care (is care safe, effective, efficient, timely, patient-centred and equitable) and how quality of care can be assessed. An emphasis is put organisational aspects of quality and safety in healthcare systems and how to create interventions for improvement. 

• Methods used in daily practice to assess and evaluate healthcare system performance and the value of alternative interventions / policies in healthcare systems, such as those used in Health Technology Assessment. 

• The impact of technology and technological advances in healthcare systems, and the multi-faceted approaches needed for the introduction of such technologies (optimising the balance between safety, efficiency, effectiveness, patient-centredness, and future sustainability) including methods such as Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM). 

• The domain specific challenges in adoption and implementation and methods to overcome these, including implementation science, transdisciplinary approaches, and participatory and engagement research for health & care. 

• Digital information systems including methods to improve security and accessibility of health data for personal and institutional use, and as part of research, quality assessment and improvement.  

• Financing of (parts of the) healthcare system, and the impact of financial incentives on outcomes such as accessibility, quality and costs of care.