The success of healthcare transformation practices is highly dependent on the engagement of medical doctors, often working at center-stage of healthcare. Various disruptive innovations and changes are impacting the physician’s role and responsibility, urging this unique profession into redesigning the professional identity of its members. Coordinated by Wouter Keijser MD [...]
Featuring in far over 100 scientific publications the training curriculum ‘TeamSTEPPS™’ has become one of the most successful toolkits that facilitates interdisciplinary teams across the health and social care domains in sustainably increasing team performance and patient safety. Originally developed within the collaboration between the USA Department of Defence (DoD) and [...]
Executive Course ‘Boundary Spanning’ in Healthcare Healthcare transformation programs are often initiated and facilitated by a relatively small group of dedicated program managers, under auspice of various boards and regulators. The actual work of these implementation experts requires in depth knowledge of the art of [...]
National medical leadership development Wouter Keijser1,2; Max Poorthuis1; Judith Tweedie3; Peter Lees4; Graham Dickson5; Celeste Wilderom1 1 University of Twente; 2 DIRMI Foundation; 3 Royal College of Physicians; 4 FMLM; 5 Royal Roads University ABSTRACT Increasing economic and organizational challenges call physicians in action to [...]
Implementing integrated care Oral Presentation at the 17th IFIC Conference in Integrated Care, DublinThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective Implementation of eHealth Enabled Integrated CareWouter A. Keijser1,2, Lisanne Penterman1, Jacco Smits1, Guus van Montfort1,3, Celeste Wilderom11University of Twente; 2DIRMI Foundation/HIM SL; 3ACTIZIntroduction: ‘Ehealth enabled integrated care’ (eHEIC) has [...]
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Old Age People Abstract Information and communication technologies (ICT) are promising for the long-term care of older and frequently frail people. These innovations can improve health outcomes, quality of life and efficiency of care processes, while supporting independent living. However, [...]
Teamwork, Leadership, and Continuous Improvement Abstract In this chapter, we describe the enhanced TeamSTEPPS™ curriculum as fundament to creating a “culture of continuous improvement” in nuclear medicine. This evidence-based and modular teamwork system is deployed in concordance with a novel medical leadership development program. It provides [...]
Physician leadership in e-health? A systematic literature review Abstract Purpose – This paper aims to systematically review the literature on roles of physicians in virtual teams (VTs) delivering healthcare for effective “physician e-leadership” (PeL) and implementation of e-health. Design/methodology/approach – The analyzed studies were retrieved with explicit keywords [...]
Building bridges for innovation in ageing Abstract The Strategic Implementation Plan of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) proposed six Action Groups. After almost three years of activity, many achievements have been obtained through commitments or collaborative work of the [...]
