Comments on: Collaborative Business

By: Ken Cohn

Ken Cohn — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:44:58 +0000

I am glad that you loved the blog post
Thanks for making the time to comment
Titling blog posts in 55 characters or less, which is all that the search crawlers see, I am told, remains an ongoing learning journey; perhaps Collaborative Wellness would have been more appropriate.

By: Team Roster

Team Roster — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:48:05 +0000

Best you should make changes to the blog name Collaborative Business | Healthcare Collaboration to something more suited for your content you create. I loved the blog post withal.

By: Collaborative Wishes: Post 75 | Healthcare Collaboration

Collaborative Wishes: Post 75 | Healthcare Collaboration — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:18:41 +0000

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By: Verhey

Verhey — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:17:53 +0000

good stuff

mary

By: fred

fred — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:37:38 +0000

You are a very smart person!

By: Uncollaborative Insurance | Healthcare Collaboration

Uncollaborative Insurance | Healthcare Collaboration — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:20:47 +0000

[...] can citizens who are not part of big companies promote a more patient-friendly wellness [...]

By: Carey

Carey — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:46:01 +0000

Dr. Cohn, thank you for your response. Yes, it makes sense, a new version/agenda – albeit different – of healthcare collaboration through investing in employees’ well-being. I, too, would love to hear more on the emerging question about paternalism from the additional readers. Seems as though that may shed much light on how we approach other collaborative initiatives. Thank you again for starting a terrific discussion….

By: Ken Cohn

Ken Cohn — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:08:52 +0000

Dear Carey,

Thanks very much for your comments. My sense in summarizing the book chapter was that this was indeed a new face of healthcare collaboration, investing in employees’ well-being.

You built on the question I raised about paternalism to ask where does this process stop and to what extent does it constrain rather than enable workers.

I hope that additional readers join in to help us flesh out these points

By: Carey

Carey — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:42:50 +0000

Dr. Cohn, another insight and innovative post, thanks! A lot to flesh in each bullet point but certainly throughout, the initiatives place the burden on the individual. Reading each of them, I was wondering where and how collaborative interactions fit into these approaches. In regards to your second question you pose, I think there are some serious concerns with the extent to which companies invest in their employees and through such approaches have reconstituted the meaning of work and therefore, the meaning of health. It’s like health as become another form of “work” and is achieved in a rather individualistic way — something that seems rather problematic for setting a new agenda with new values and goals for a collaboration model of healthcare. Yes, accountability and responsibility are significant but are the initiatives introduced so workers can perform more efficiently or have they been introduced for the overall well being of the employees? A larger question, too, might be how are these organizations goals consistent or inconsistent with the goals of the larger society? Who is regulating and controlling such approaches? And what, if any, organizational incentives are being used to encourage one to identify with one’s individual motives, and to communication – well act or refrain from action – about the organization to enhance one’s profit (i.e. ones health)??? Who is benefiting and who is not from such approaches? And finally, what does this mean for healthcare collaboration??