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Description for Clinical Integration
Hardcover. As health care becomes more common in communities, health systems reorganize both their business practices and their patient care practices. This book explains best practices in patient care restructuring, also called "clinical integration". Editor(s): Tonges, Mary. Num Pages: 239 pages, index. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 479.
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
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
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787940393
SKU
V9780787940393
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Tonges
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.
Reviews for Clinical Integration
"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 clinicalnursing, Columbia UniversitySchool of Nursing "Every biochemical system has a rate limiting reaction. In the caseof clinical integration, the limitations come from the vagaries ofphysician culture and the lack of a unified information system.Tonges and her colleagues in their new book provide us with all thenecessary enzymes to speed this rate limiting reaction along. Mostintegrated delivery systems want us to believe that they haveovercome these limitations and created a clinically integratedenterprise. The contributors to this volume know what a canard thisis, and the distillation of their observations, insights, advice,and case studies will help even the most incredulous physicianbelieve in clinical integration. The vocabulary may be foreign atfirst, but the chemical reaction when complete, will provide bothheat and light."
David B. Nash, associate dean and director,Health Policy and Clinical Outcomes, Thomas Jefferson UniversityHospital
Barbara Barnum,RN, Ph.D., FAAN, professor of clinicalnursing, Columbia UniversitySchool of Nursing "Every biochemical system has a rate limiting reaction. In the caseof clinical integration, the limitations come from the vagaries ofphysician culture and the lack of a unified information system.Tonges and her colleagues in their new book provide us with all thenecessary enzymes to speed this rate limiting reaction along. Mostintegrated delivery systems want us to believe that they haveovercome these limitations and created a clinically integratedenterprise. The contributors to this volume know what a canard thisis, and the distillation of their observations, insights, advice,and case studies will help even the most incredulous physicianbelieve in clinical integration. The vocabulary may be foreign atfirst, but the chemical reaction when complete, will provide bothheat and light."
David B. Nash, associate dean and director,Health Policy and Clinical Outcomes, Thomas Jefferson UniversityHospital