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Health Care Management (HCM)
The Health Care Management Division (HCM) is dedicated to understanding the role of professionals and organizations in providing health care both locally and internationally. Healthcare management research is a rapidly growing field in need of active scholars. It is a rich research environment with data available on thousands of organizations and millions of leaders, managers, employees, professionals and customers. Major focuses of research by Divisional members include: the performance of healthcare workers and organizations; public policy issues, such as access to care, competition, cost control and quality of care, and their implications for managing health care organizations; health care finance and marketing; and empirical or conceptual application of theory to the study of healthcare organizations, even on topics that might also fall within another Division's domain.
Domain Statement
Health Care Management is dedicated to enhancing the population’s health and wellbeing through developing and testing management theory. Division members seek to understand the role of professionals and organizations in providing effective health care that is low cost, high quality, and enhances population health and wellbeing at the local, national, and global levels. Members of the Division research the performance of health workers and organizations across the growing spectrum of professions and settings contributing to health (i.e., beyond traditional medical care contexts); the adoption and effectiveness of new organizational forms, practices, roles, and technologies in health care; the evolution of public policy including issues related to access, cost, financial performance, and quality of care as well as how it is influenced by and affects health professionals and organizations; the competitive dynamics and strategy of health organizations and their consequences; the perspective of patients, families, and communities and their implications for workers and organizations; implementation of evidence-based management and clinical practice; and health care finance and marketing. By examining a complex and dynamic context closely entwined with a multi-faceted set of organization types, professions, and public policies, research on health care management phenomena serves to develop new management theory or refine and test existing theory that often spans AOM Divisions. As a Division we welcome such cross-Division collaboration.