La organización innovadora: el caso de los hospitales regionales de alta especialidad

Abstract

At a global level, the hospital organizations are suffering important changes in structure, operation and management due to innovative services, scientific breakthroughs and technological development and their applications have brought longer-lasting and quality of people’s life and remarked increases in hospital workers productivity, but in the other hand, this is causing higher operation cost and affecting investment in medical units. In Mexico, the Health Department (SSA Spanish initials) and the Federal Government are trying to build 18 High-Specialty regional hospitals (HRAE Spanish initials) to give quality hospital services trough “Universal Access” units which must have interesting duties in organization, management and financing compared with other equivalent health organizations. From a research project with a qualitative methodological approach, which must answer 2 main questions: How innovative are the HRAE? And when the HRAE implement and operate changes, which have the main obstacles been? This document shows first findings from the advancing reports of the project.