2. Control vs Influence
Management relates to control of resources and
processes in order to achieve an agreed set of goals and
purposes.
Leadership, in contrast, relies on influence to achieve a
desired purpose.
3. Keys to Better Results
• Collaboration
• Facilitation
• Iteration
• Influence not control
4. Whole System…..
A system is an
interconnected and
interdependent series of
entities, where
decisions and actions in
one entity are
consequential to other
neighbouring entities
5. Leadership and Whole Systems..
Whole systems respond to influence, but are not
susceptible to control, thereby demonstrating that we
must strengthen leadership in preference to
management.
6. Characteristics of Whole System
Leaders…
• Put effort into making new
connections
• An open enquiring mind
• Positive about change and
uncertainty
• Adopt an entrepreneurial
attitude
• Draw on as many different
perspectives as possible
• Possess transparent values
• A leader in every seat
• Establish a compelling
vision which is shared by all
partners in the whole
system
• Promote the importance of
values – invest as much
energy into relationships
and behaviours as into
delivering tasks
• Focus externally rather than
inwardly
7. Role of the CIO in Whole Systems…
• Technology crosses
organisation borders
• CIOs can help build
relationships and
bridges
• Economies of scale
• Reduce duplication
• Great use of resources
• Facilitative glue
8. Some Leadership Enablers
for Integrated Care…
• Exchange of information
• Culture and leadership
• Procedures
• Attitude of risk sharing
(iteration)
• Patient choices and
engagement (collaboration)
• Governance
• Clinical practice (collaboration)
9. Some of the leadership barriers…
• Hard to collaborate: Separate information systems or
ones that are not interoperable
• No single assessment process
• Highly risk averse organisations
• Service users exercising absolute choice, not
collaborative
• Unwillingness to share decision making
• Culture – control v. sharing (information and decisions)
14. Methodology…
• Defining the Whole System
– The population who’s continuity of care is being profiled
• Define up to five “customer selected” care settings, such as…
1. Primary Care
2. Acute Care
3. Home Based Care
4. Urgent Care
5. Long Term Care
• Completing Survey
– Respond to ~230 compliance statements
– 11 distinct categories such as Care Coord., Pt Engagement,
Analytics, HIE, Org. Strategy, Security & Privacy, etc…
– Pre-defined responses facilitate completion
Where a manager’s authority is conveyed through their defined position often within a single organisation a leader’s authority is drawn from the commitment of their followers. By definition without followers, there can be no leaders. However it should not be an effort to create followers or an action that is anyway forced or premeditated. Because followers will allow themselves to be influenced when they can see and admire a cause, vision or purpose which resonates with them. They will only commit to that cause when they also share a common set of values with those exhibited by the leader of that cause.
A whole system on the other hand is a system of interconnected and interdependent series of entities, where decisions and actions in one entity are
consequential to other neighbouring entities. In this country and indeed in many others we have spent years training, developing and promoting Organisational leaders. We have an inspection regime, a regulatory regime and a commissioning regime that recognises organisations rather than whole systems. We hold organisations to account and applaud or penalise in accordance with their performance and compliance against our national targets and key indicators – yet we treat patients across and within whole systems. Would it be possible to commission care from a whole system provider? Inspect a whole system for compliance against whole system standards and use resources for the benefit of the whole system rather than for the benefit of single organisations.
Many potential whole systems leaders have been stifled by our preference for competition rather than collaboration. In this sense we may even find competition easier than collaboration and partnership. For many organisations the mantra – “I can only win if you lose” is still a common and convenient perception.
Great leaders actually give away control rather than accumulate it. Great leaders with vast amounts of power must use that power wisely and sparingly. In fact the more power they have the less they need to use. The values that we spoke about earlier have to appeal and align with the values of the whole system and cannot accord with one organisation at the expense of the rest if the whole system leader is to be successful.
Far more than simply having a broad and inclusive external perspective whole
system leaders look to:
Collaborate rather than complete
Include rather than exclude
Grow networks rather than work exclusively with their peers.
They also recognise the importance of value driven behaviour and they ensure that at all times that their actions align with their values.
And finally if whole system leaders become disruptive rebels they do it together across the system rather than within single organisations.
The CIO is in a great place to deliver services across the entire system and this should be the model of choice if the cohort of organisations is looking to operate as a whole system. The CIO whose services are shared with more than 50% of organisations in the whole system will act as the facilitative glue helping organisations to jointly fund, jointly deploy systems and applications that have whole system benefit.
These are some of the key enablers of integrated care
Exchange of Information Share as a priority
Culture and Leadership Whole systems with devolved leadership; influencing and facilitation
Procedures Multidisciplinary joint assessment processes or another version of iteration
Attitude to risk Aligned with agreed procedures. Risk sharing
Patient choices Encouraged but only when it adds value
Governance Committed to joint governance
Clinical Practice
Patient Engagement Is evident in all that we do
The key barriers to provided integrated care across the whole system seem obvious yet sadly many organisations fail to have proper plans or mechanisms in place to tackle these issues.
Separate information systems or ones that are not interoperable –
Information exchange should be a legal requirement
No single assessment process
Money doesn’t follow the patient And we let money get in the way of us doing the right thing
Highly risk averse organisations
Service users exercising absolute choice This creates fragmentation across the system
Clinical responsibility is not clear If is not clear there often is none
Unwillingness to transfer care Professional elitism
Culture – where is the power
In this model we measure, monitor and evaluate from a Governance, clinical and technology perspective across all organisations identified by the client.
From informal undocumented governance through the mid range of shared information governance agreements across organisations working towards the top of the model where we look for processes to address non compliance with IG and an alignment between local and national requirements.
Clinical
Limited sharing of care plans and then, Records and registries available across the care setting and thenShared image store and finally
Patient compliance checking.
Isolated data
Mobile tech at the point of care
Community wide central data store
You decide who is in the team – who is in your whole system. Typically a health economy would consist of a hospital, a bunch of primary care providers, a mental health Trust, a community provider and a local authority providing social services.
We ask each organisation to complete a survey. We look at a number of deicrete categories such as care planning, patient engagement and analytic capability. We are able to report at a number of levels: for example
This is the Analysis by organisation looking through the technology lens. Organisations in a whole system will often mature together because they recognise the inefficiency of one organisation being significantly ahead or behind the rest. As such money in the whole system is used for the benefit of al.
This is looking at acute care only through all three lenses – Clinical – governance and technology. So it is possible using the analytical tools to use a number of perspectives to observe maturity across the whole system.
In order to provide Integrated Care we require amongst other things integrated systems. I am often asked by colleagues working in health care whether they should be using the EMRAM which is the analysis of digital maturity in acute hospitals or CCMM which is the measurement of digital maturity across the whole system. The answer is that you probably need to do both. The EMRAM looks in detail as systems in hospitals that are critical to patient safety and the quality of clinical care. CCMM on the other hand takes a more holistic approach to digital maturity across the entire health community. HIMSS recognises the important of measuring both.
Integrated care enabled by integrated systems is best provided across a Health economy where whole system leadership is strong.