Clinical Integration: Strategies and Practices for Organized Delivery Systems - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787940399 ISBN 13: 9780787940393

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1998

Synopsis

Reengineering Organized Delivery Systems

The Center for Case Management

Managed care pressures are forcing the creation of larger andlarger delivery systems, but little is known about how tocoordinate clinical services within these complex systems.

This ground breaking resource outlines six specific mechanisms tosuccessfully accomplish clinical integration, and narrow the gapbetween those who manage patient care services and those who planoverall health systems. Written by experts-- executives, doctors,and nurses--the book offers down-to-earth guidance and testedstrategies for creating and improving clinical integration.

Throughout the book, the authors include vivid case examples aswell as illustrative tables, diagrams, and figures.

Tonges' book should be required reading in all health careadministration programs. Under one cover, this dynamic,up-to-the-moment book shows how clinical integration can and mustbe achieved in today's managed care environment.
--Barbara Barnum, RN, Ph.D., FAAN, professor of Clinical Nursing,Columbia University School of Nursing

About this title

From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0787940399
• ISBN 13: 9780787940393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Tonges Mary