Health Management
The axis is headed by our 2 group leaders, Irène Georgescu and Nathalie Commeiras. The new challenges facing the healthcare sector are as follows: patient pathways and the development of outpatient care, changes in the way establishments are financed, professions and inter-professional coordination, and the structuring of healthcare regions. Indeed, the "Ma santé 2022" project calls for a reconfiguration of healthcare provision. According to the Ministry, the healthcare sector is marked by inequalities in access to care, and professionals wishing to cooperate better with each other. To meet these challenges, the Ministry has identified several key areas for action: better directing patients according to their needs, increasing the quality and relevance of care, using digital technology to provide better care, reforming financing to encourage quality and cooperation, adapting training and professions to the new challenges, and modernizing hospital management.
RESEARCH TOPICS
In line with the Government's "Ma Santé 2022" project, over the next four years, MRM's health focus aims to approach reforms and their effects through the prism of management, in particular.
For this reason, the objectives for the coming years are based on the following four themes:
Medically-oriented communication and behaviors: This work focuses on communication aimed at making the public and patients aware of the positive and harmful effects of certain practices (e.g. diet). In this way, communication on nutrition and obesity/overweight, through nutritional recommendations and public health campaigns, helps citizens to change their behavior. In addition, it will be useful to develop research into the measurement of patient/resident satisfaction and experience, not only in hospitals but also in follow-up and rehabilitation care (SSR), EHPAD, home hospitalization (HAD), etc., to contribute, in the long term, to the evaluation of structures and form an integral part of their financing.
Digital healthcare: This theme covers e-health, the connected patient, the co-construction of healthcare solutions for and with citizens, and digital and connected tools linking organizations and patients. By January 1, 2022, every French citizen will have a single personal account giving access to a personalized portal of services, which will continue to grow: shared medical records, referenced healthcare applications, secure messaging....
Values, Pathways and performance management : while the current financing methods have been the subject of numerous studies pointing out their unexpected effects, new financing methods are emerging. Indeed, funding reform is one of the major projects of Ma santé 2022, with a strong ambition: to move from a system that favors the multiplication of acts and activity to funding that encourages prevention, supports cooperation between professionals and reaffirms quality as the primary objective of care. We are witnessing the simultaneous emergence of reorganization, performance measurement and the creation of boundaries between establishments. Thus, the notion of value creation and co-creation is a key element for organizations calling for new modes of governance;
Health and Professions : this theme brings together work on quality of working life, change management, psycho-social risks, transformations in the healthcare professions, the content of their jobs and the tools they use, as well as intra- and inter-professional coordination, the hybridization of healthcare professionals and reconfigurations of power within and between organizations.
Activities and publications:
Since February 2011, the group has been running at a brisk pace, with over twenty researchers contributing to the dynamics of the axis.
The majority of management science disciplines are brought together through the active participation of MRM researchers: accounting and management control, human resources management, marketing, information systems, etc.
MRM's management researchers are joined by colleagues in economics and medicine. In particular, the group includes researchers from a medical research laboratory and the Medical Information Department of the Montpellier CHRU. In this way, the cross-disciplinary health theme is part of a trans-disciplinary dialogue within and around management sciences, on contemporary health issues and challenges.
A special relationship has been established with Montpellier's Centre du Droit de la Santé, notably as part of a research project on obesity. The health group works closely with biology and health laboratories, and with the Montpellier CHRU Research Department.
This desire to be anchored in a regional competitiveness cluster has led researchers in the health area to forge closer links with local economic and social players. In this respect, close collaboration with the Medical Information Department of the Montpellier CRHU is already underway, in the form of participation in joint research meetings. Collaboration with the Agence Régionale de Santé is also underway.