Technology-enabled change in health care organizations
Eammon Molloy is funded by the Advanced Institute of Management to establish research in the area of Technology Enabled Service Transformation (TEST), with particular reference to health care in the UK and the USA. The long-range vision is for a detailed, in-depth comparative study of UK and US healthcare services.
Molloy, together with Gene Rochlin of the Unversity of Calilfornia, Berkeley, wishes to develop the case for a long-term, cross-national project on the newer and more salient social and political effects of embedded computer/IT networks and structures within healthcare services.
Evidence-based organizational change
Sue Dopson has carried out research into the complexitites of achieving change in healthcare settings, in particular the challenges of ensuring clinical practice is more evidence-based. Her current research projects include a study of the introduction of the Genetics Knowledge Parks in the UK and the implications of developing genetics research on clinical practice.
Networks in health care
Sue Dopson leads a research collaboration with Royal Holloway and DeMontfort University. This is a comparative study of four different professional and clinical network types in health care: cancer care, elderly care, public health and the development of new genetics technologies. The study explores network characteristics, the differences between more and less managed forms of networks, the origins of network structures, the extent to which new ICTs are contributing to more network based forms of working in healthcare, and the factors which contribute to network performance. This is so that typologies of networks, and promising lessons for policy and practice around networks in healthcare can be identified.