EVALUATION OF THE POTENTIAL APPLICATION OF SYSTEMS THINKING IN HEALTHCARE: THE CASE OF SLOVENIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

Article: DRMJ vol14 no02 2025-Clanek 3

DOI:

doi:10.17708/DRMJ.2025.v14n02a03

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 The Slovenian healthcare system faces significant challenges in mitigating procedural errors and managing the impact of negative human emotions on work outcomes. This study investigates how to effectively integrate essential elements of work organization and management into healthcare system administration through comparative analysis of theoretical and practical knowledge across two distinct temporal periods. Our findings indicate that while health policy has acknowledged systemic issues and attempted reforms through legislative modifications and increased financial allocation, these interventions have proved ineffective due to insufficient attention to fundamental organizational anomalies. Notably, the reform process has not adequately recognized that successful transformation requires bottom‐up engagement rather than top‐down imposition. This research proposes a model for implementing process control fundamentals in healthcare organizational systems, potentially enhancing operational efficiency. 

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35‐47