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Clinical Integration: Strategies and Practices for Organized Delivery Systems
ISBN: 978-0-787-94039-3
June 1998
Jossey-Bass
264 pages
Written by clinicians, executives, and managers who have implemented integrated delivery systems within health care organizations, Clinical Integration is filled with practical strategies and illustrative case examples that can be used to make integration a reality. The book offers guidance for implementing field-tested mechanisms, such as systemwide information systems, clinical paths, case management, process improvement, and outcomes management. It outlines methods that foster and strengthen clinical integration and details how to
Comprehensive in scope, Clinical Integration highlights the vital leadership role executives and governing boards play in making integration a success. It also address the challenges of administrative and physician-system integration with chapters that describe operations within a product service/line structure and outline a multifaceted approach to working with physicians collaboratively.
Health care administrators, physicians, nurses, policymakers, educators, and students will find Clinical Integration to be a balanced blend of theory and practice that contains an abundance of real-world strategies and lessons from pioneers in the field.