Swedish healthcare is facing challenges to meet changing needs, new treatment methods and new technologies. Coordination and collaboration can improve quality for patients while reducing costs.

Organizational collaboration involves actors, across organizational boundaries, working together to achieve the purpose of the collaboration, e.g. to facilitate the care of a patient or group of patients in a care pathway.

The thesis shows that organizational collaboration can promote improvement work and learning in processes by sharing knowledge within and between functions and organizations.

Professor Anders Fundin, also Research Director at SIQ was the main opponent.

We congratulate Margareta for a well done research work and especially for her PhD in Quality Engineering.