Boundaryless Hospital

Part I: Challenges and Opportunities of Health Care Management in the 21st Century.- Network Management as a Strategic Option for the Boundaryless Hospital.- Cancer Care: New Value Chains Challenge German Hospital Structures.- Health Care under Market Conditions from an Ethical Point of View.- Part II: Seizing the Opportunities across Countries and Sub-disciplines.- Pathways towards Health Care Systems with a Chronic-care Focus.- The Importance of Time in Developing a Boundaryless Hospital.- Networked Care: IT-Assisted Tools (Wearable Sensors) for Patients at Risk.- Carving Out a Place for New Health Care Occupations.- Personalized Medicine Challenges the Health Care System.- Part III: Meeting the Challenges.- Measuring Performance in Hospitals.- The "Boundaryless Hospital" Through Risk Management Approach: A Case Study of the Accident and Emergency Unit of a Tertiary-care Hospital in Malta.- Leveraging the Value for Health Care Providers Using Clinical Workflow Analytics.- Role and Function of the Emergency Department in a Boundaryless Hospital.- Stakeholder Involvement Transcends Boundaries in University Hospitals.- The Hospital Situation for Diseases Requiring Sophisticated Examinations Using Epilepsy as an Example.- Identifying the Adoption Process for Electronic Health Services.- Infection Prevention Networks and the Role of the Boundaryless Hospital.- Part IV: The Boundaryless Hospital from the Patients' Perspective.- From Community Analysis to Prototype: Creating and Online Matchmaker for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients.- Patients' Complaints and Managers' Responses as a Process of Institutional Interaction.- Innovations by and for Patients, and their Place in the Future Health Care System.