Clinical Integration: Strategies and Practices for Organized Delivery Systems

Clinical Integration is a ground–breaking book that outlines successful approaches to achieving clinical integration and narrowing the gap between those who provide patient care services and those who design health systems.
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
Create information systems that can support care coordination and management across delivery sites
Implement a CareMap system that will create more clinical standardization and more coordinated, cost–effective care for patients
Develop a case management model program for multiprovider systems
Put into place continuous quality improvement, outcomes management, and clinical education programs that can be interrelated to form a powerful integrative engine
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.

Spis treści:
Foreward.
FRAMI NG CLINICAL INTEGRATION.
Clinical Integration in Organized Delivery Systems: Responding to New Challenges in Health Care (M. Tonges).
Theory and Managerial Implications (J. Ritter–Teitel).
STRATEGIES FOR CLINICAL INTEGRATION.
Values and Value: Perspectives on Clinical Integration (B. Anderson).
Applying Systems Thinking to Clinical Integration (A. Blouin, et al.).
Administrative Integration Through Product and Service Line Structure (S. Henry).
Strengthening Provider System Integration (R. Williams).
CLINICAL INTEGRATION PRACTICES.
Achieving Information Systems Support for Clinical Integration (T. Jacobsen & M. Hill).
Clinical Paths and CareMaps (r): A System–level Care Management Strategy (S. Robertson).
Clinically Integrated Delivery Systems and Case Management (K. Bower).
Systemwide CQI and Education as an Integrative Engine (B. Pilon).
Common Themes and Concluding Thoughts (M. Tonges).
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
MARY TONGES is senior vice president of nursing and patient services at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, and a national and international consultant with the Center for Case Management.

Okładka tylna:
Clinical Integration is a ground–breaking book that outlines successful approaches to achieving clinical integration and narrowing the gap between those who provide patient care services and those who design health systems.
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
Create information systems that can support care coordination and management across delivery sites
Implement a CareMap system that will create more clinical standardization and more coordinated, cost–effective care for patients
Develop a case management model program for multiprovider systems
Put into place continuous quality improvement, outcomes management, and clinical education programs that can be interrelated to form a powerful integrative engine
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.