Systems thinking in healthcare transformation

Management in Medicine

Monday 22 May 2023   18:45 to 20:15

Speakers:	Professor David Matchar
Location:	Virtual Event

About

David Matchar is Professor of Medicine at Duke University in the United States, Director of the Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research, and the Inaugural Director of the Programme in Health Services and Systems Research (HSSR), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.

Systems thinking in healthcare is intended to promote a wholistic view of all actors, resources, and their relationships to achieve better overall performance (e.g., the quadruple aim of population health, sustainable costs, patient and provider satisfaction). Well-appreciated as a sentiment, systems thinking is challenging to implement in practice.
In this session, we will discuss various approaches to systems thinking, including System Dynamics, illustrated by the current efforts in Singapore for system transformation.
Specifically, Singapore has set out its goal to improve healthcare value, and to achieve that by payment redesign via capitation, enhancing the accountable role of primary care, and better integration with community services (HealthierSG). The structural changes being proposed mean a radical shift in system governance: who takes decisions both about care and how resources and patients will flow through the health system. We will focus on the application of systems thinking to governance design that promotes agency by all stakeholders and long-term viability of the healthcare enterprise.

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More information

The Management in Medicine Programme at Green Templeton aims to develop management and leadership skills for health and care systems in early career professionals. It is open to medical students, doctors in training, postgraduate students and others with an interest in healthcare management.

For more information please contact ana.ortiz@gtc.ox.ac.uk