Health Systems

Gerdien Regts
I am a postdoc researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business, department Operations. My research interests are in the field of Healthcare Management and include regional healthcare networks, value-based healthcare, and evaluating the hospitalist, a new medical function in Dutch hospitals. Currently, I'm involved in a project in which we investigate the way in which value-based healthcare in regional oncology networks facilitates improvement of healthcare delivery.

Durk-Jouke van der Zee
Durk-Jouke van der Zee is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Groningen. His research focuses on health care systems engineering. Research themes include hospital planning & control, and the design of care chains and networks - thereby linking pre-hospital and intrahospital care services. Project examples include development of cost-effective organizational models for regional acute stroke care, big data analysis of patient flows in care networks seeking to improve care plans and resource use, strategic staff planning and ambulance network design and operation.

Extra keywords: Health Services, Quantitative Methods, Health Organization, Health System Engenineering

Marjolein van Offenbeek
Studied and got her PhD in organisational psychology in Amsterdam before she moved to Groningen to engage in interdisciplinary, applied research in healthcare settings. Her research focuses on the implementation and effectiveness of innovations in health care management and organisation. A central theme is how to realise a dynamic fit between the innovation content and context on the one hand and the implementation strategy on the other hand. One line of research concentrates on new occupations, job differentiation and professional projects in healthcare. The second line concerns health information systems and Ehealth implementation.

Extra keyword: Implementation

Albert Boonstra
Albert Boonstra is a full professor of Information Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research interests include the implementation of advanced information technologies in healthcare environments, especially the socio-political dimensions. He is interested in the transformative potential of digital technologies in healthcare, including eHealth, Internet of Things, Electronic Health Records and Telecare. He presented his work at international conferences and is author of three books and more than 60 international journal articles. He is senior editor of Information Systems Journal. He is research fellow of research school SOM and of the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health.

Extra keyword: Implementation

Han de Ruiter
As of April 1, 2019, I started as a professor in the research domain Value Based Health Care. In the ever-changing healthcare domain, we see that the value(s) of healthcare is becoming more important. That means value for the patient involved, his or her family and the social network. But also value for healthcare professionals. From our university of applied sciences perspective, this mainly concerns the nurses and para medical professions. On the one hand, we look at the care processes and the effective and efficient working method therein and efficient use of (financial) resources. On the other hand, we try to take the perspective of the patient as a starting point in our research. What does value-based care mean from the perspective of the patient, the family, the social network?

Extra keyword: Value Based Healthcare

Oskar Roemeling
Oskar is an Assistant Professor at the department of Innovation Management & Strategy of the Faculty of Economics and Business. He has a background in industrial and organizational psychology (MSc.) and human resource management (MSc.). Oskar obtained his PhD in the domain of Operations Management focusing on the use of Lean Manufacturing in healthcare environments. His main research interest are the application of continuous improvement methods in healthcare as well as the adoption of value based healthcare. In addition, Oskar is interested in more general healthcare management relates issues.

Jan-Jaap Reinders
Dr Jan-Jaap Reinders is a Dutch work and organizational psychologist specialized in research on interprofessional identity and sociotechnical systems approach to interprofessional collaboration. He works at the Hanze UAS, the University Medical Center Groningen, and is affiliated as Principal Investigator of the Research Group on Interprofessional Identity and Collaboration with Kaunas UAS in Lithuania. In addition, Dr Reinders is a copromotor of several PhD candidates and an association board member of Interprofessional.Global. He developed a new scientific theory on interprofessional identity – extended professional identity theory – and a psychological instrument to measure interprofessional identity (EPIS; extended professional identity scale). So far, EPIS has several cross-cultural validated versions: Lithuanian, German, and Turkish.

Extra keywords: Interprofessional education, collaborative practice, interprofessional identity, sociotechnical systems approach

Wim Dieperink
Wim Dieperink is Clinical Research Coordinator at the Critical Care department of the University Medical and professor of Critical Care at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen.
Critically ill patients are entitled to the best possible treatment based on available evidence and knowledge. The patient is at the center of clinical work and medical education, and so is research. It is our moral and academic duty to conduct excellent research that benefits critically ill patients around the world. The aim is to establish a deepened collaboration within the healthcare sector in the North of the Netherlands to improve 24-hour care for critically ill patients, by contributing to innovation, adoption of new methods and techniques, research and educational development.

It is my mission to:

• provide the best available treatment and care to patients requiring intensive care;
• being part of a learning and innovative organization;
• create a pleasant working environment.