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Assembling Goal Attainment and Collaboration - Videoconference in Clinical Practice
Authors:
Anne Granstrøm Ekeland
Keywords: video-conference; goal attainment; clinical practice; collaboration and integration of care; theoretical resources
Abstract:
Videoconferencing (VC) for clinical work at scale is underway at the University Hospital of North Norway (UNN) as a strategy to support the goals of integrated and coordinated care pathways and reduce secondary health care costs. A research project: “Modelling Videoconference Collaboration” was designed to investigate financial and social aspects following this development. The project primarily looks at collaboration between clinicians. This paper reports on the sociological aspects of the project where the overall objective is to explore emerging new models for clinical VC collaboration and analyze specified mechanisms involved in optimizing the potential of the service. In the paper I report results on the question: what theoretical resources are useful for addressing processes towards goal attainment and VC practices of collaboration? Based upon a review of scientific publications, policy documents and theoretical work, a summary of experiences with VC use in Norway is presented to identify results on goal attainment and collaboration practices. International findings are also briefly considered. Complexities concerning influences and goals were identified. This result is used to introduce and discuss theoretical approaches, arriving at the concept of assemblage for addressing complexity. Arguing for the use of this concept, the paper concludes with operational questions for further empirical exploration and analyses.
Pages: 302 to 307
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014
Publication date: March 23, 2014
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4359
ISBN: 978-1-61208-327-8
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: from March 23, 2014 to March 27, 2014