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          Realising and Implementing Good and Cohesive
                                    Patient Pathways


                                              Erna Håland

                      Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
                                    erna.haland@svt.ntnu.no



        Abstract. The need for integration of health care services and collaboration
        across boundaries is highlighted as a major challenge within health care in
        many countries. Hospitals and municipal health care, as well as other health
        care service providers, need to collaborate across organisational and discipli-
        nary boundaries. In Norway, the introduction of The Coordination Reform in
        2012 is addressing this issue. It is argued that patients’ needs for coordinated
        services are not being sufficiently met and that there should be more coopera-
        tion and better, more efficient coordination between health care services. The
        introduction and use of different forms of ICT is seen as an important factor for
        realising these goals. It is stated that electronic communication should be the
        “normal” way of communicating within health care. In a research project fund-
        ed by The Norwegian Research Council, we evaluate the reform, focusing on
        coordination and patient pathways. In our work package within this project, the
        aim is to study coordination efforts/initiatives (four cases) between municipal
        health care and specialist health care, focusing on possible changes the reform
        implies for organisation, management, distribution of tasks and competence.




Copyright © 2013 by the paper's authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes.

In: H. Gilstad, L. Melby, M. G. Jaatun (eds.): Proceedings of the European Workshop on Practical Aspects
of Health Informatics (PAHI 2013), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 11-MAR-2013, published at
http://ceur-ws.org

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