Open AccessSystems Methodology for Strategic Decision-making in Complex Healthcare System
Author(s) -
Tadeja Jere Jakulin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
medicine, law and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2630-2535
pISSN - 2463-7955
DOI - 10.18690/2463-7955.10.2.121-138.2017
Subject(s) - healthcare system , complex system , management science , computer science , causal loop diagram , system dynamics , health care , systems thinking , frame (networking) , component (thermodynamics) , decision support system , process management , systems engineering , operations research , engineering , artificial intelligence , telecommunications , physics , economics , thermodynamics , economic growth
Systems methodology as a support for strategic decision-making will be discussed in the paper. A society will be presented as a complex system, which is comprised of many smaller, complex systems as its component parts. The healthcare system is one of them. The support to the strategic decision-making in a healthcare system will be shown through systems thinking and systems modelling. We will develop models of a healthcare system in frame of a systems dynamics; a qualitative causal loop diagram (CLD), which helps us to discuss the challenges categorically and a quantitative model, which is a simulation model. Both models illustrate the discussed methodology.