Health Management
The focus is led by our two group leaders, Nathalie Commeiras and Marlène Barreda. The new challenges facing the healthcare sector are as follows: patient pathways and the development of outpatient care, changes in the financing of institutions, professions, interprofessional coordination, and the structuring of the healthcare region. 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 a desire among professionals to improve cooperation between themselves. To meet these challenges, the ministry has identified several major projects: better guiding patients according to their needs, increasing the quality and relevance of care, using digital technology to improve care, reforming financing to encourage quality and cooperation, adapting training and professions to new challenges, and modernizing hospital governance and management.
RESEARCH TOPICS
In line with the government's "Ma Santé 2022" project, over the next four years, MRM's health focus will be to address reforms and their effects through the prism of management, in particular.
That is why the objectives for the coming years are centered around the following four themes:
Medically oriented communication and behaviors: Thiswork focuses on communication aimed at raising public and patient awareness of the positive and negative effects of certain practices (e.g., dietary habits). Communication on nutrition and obesity/overweight through nutritional recommendations and public health campaigns enables citizens to change their behaviors. In addition, it would be appropriate to develop research on measuring patient/resident satisfaction and experience, not only in hospitals but also in follow-up care and rehabilitation (SSR), nursing homes, home hospitalization (HAD), etc., in order to contribute, in the long term, to the evaluation of structures and form an integral part of their financing.
Digital health: This theme covers e-health, connected patients, the joint development 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 unique personal account giving them access to a personalized service portal, which is set to expand to include shared medical records, referenced health applications, secure messaging, and more.
Values, pathways, and performance management: while current financing methods have been the subject of numerous studies highlighting their unexpected effects, new financing methods are emerging. Financing reform is one of the major projects of Ma santé 2022, with a strong ambition: to move from a system that encourages the proliferation of procedures and activity to a financing system that encourages prevention, supports cooperation between professionals, and reaffirms quality as the primary objective of care. We are witnessing the simultaneous emergence of reorganizations, performance measurement, and the establishment of boundaries between institutions. 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 aims to bring together work on quality of life at work, change management, psychosocial risks, transformations in health professions, the content of their jobs and the tools they use, as well as intra- and inter-professional coordination, the hybridization of health professionals, and the reconfiguration of power within and between organizations.
Activities and publications:
Since February 2011, the group has been working at a steady pace, with more than twenty researchers contributing to the momentum of the research area.
Most of the disciplinary fields of management sciences are represented through the active participation of MRM researchers: accounting and management control, human resources management, marketing, information systems, etc.
In addition to MRM management researchers, the group includes economists and doctors. In particular, the group welcomes researchers from a medical research laboratory and the Medical Information Department of Montpellier University Hospital. The cross-disciplinary theme of health is therefore part of a transdisciplinary dialogue within and around management sciences on contemporary health issues and challenges.
Close ties have been established with the Montpellier Health Law Center, particularly in the context of research into obesity issues. The health group works closely with biology and health laboratories and with the Research Department of Montpellier University Hospital.
This desire to establish roots in a regional competitiveness cluster has led researchers in the health field to forge closer ties with local economic and social stakeholders. To this end, close collaboration with the Medical Information Department of the Montpellier University Hospital is already underway in the form of participation in joint research meetings. Collaborations with the Regional Health Agency are currently being established.