Virtually Integrated Health Systems: A Guide to Assessing Organizational Readiness and Strategic Partners - Tapa dura
Sinopsis
A Road Map to the Future of Health Care Richard Coffey, Kate Fenner, and Sheryl Stogis bring together their years of experience to show how to avoid the most common problems on the journey toward integration. They offer an expanded view of the health and community services required of the emerging integrated health system. Using a powerful three-strategy plan, they outline a comprehensive, community-based approach to health promotion and maintenance that sustains and improves the health of all people in the communities served. With models, techniques, and practical tools, Virtually Integrated Health Systems Details a unique taxonomy of healthcare, health, and social services and shows how to assess your own, your potential partners', and even your competitors' scope of services Offers guidance and insights to address organizational issues of culture, leadership, and human resources Uses the criteria common to most external assessment and accreditation organizations to show how to make external expectations and evaluation criteria a vital part of the assessment process
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Acerca del autor
RICHARD J. COFFEY internationally recognized author, speaker, and consultant, is director of program and operations analysis at the University of Michigan Health System. He is also adjunct associate professor in industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan and a consultant with Compass Group, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio. He is coauthor, with colleague Ellen J. Gaucher, of Total Quality in Healthcare (Jossey--Bass, 1993) and Transforming Healthcare Organizations (Jossey--Bass, 1990). KATE M. FENNER is president of Compass Group, Inc., and an active faculty member of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). A national speaker on topics of quality improvement, leadership, and organizational effectiveness, she is coauthor, with Peter Fenner, of Manual of Nursing Recruitment and Retention (1988) and author of the classic text Ethics and Law in Nursing (1980). SHERYL L. STOGIS is president and chief executive officer of the Michigan Peer Review Organization and a consultant and faculty member for Compass Group, Inc. Her twenty years of healthcare experiences include work with the Regional Organ Bank of Illinois, the JCAHO, the Japan Hospital Quality Assurance Society, and other organizations in the areas of quality management, performance measurement, education, marketing, operations, and nursing.
De la contraportada
A Leadership Guide to Healthcare's FutureAs we shift from a paradigm of sickness to one of wellness, the future health of our society demands that leaders understand how to form and operate virtual health systems. For anyone working to improve or sustain health, Virtually Integrated Health Systems will be the definitive guide to identifying and choosing potential business partners in this era of mergers, acquisitions, and alliances.
De la solapa interior
On the road to achieving true integration in healthcare, there will always be speed bumps. Some can be managed, but most can be avoided altogether with insight, planning, and a broad vision of what lies ahead.Virtually Integrated Health Systems shows how to avoid the most common problems on the journey toward integration by providing a road map to the future of healthcare. Authors Coffey, Fenner, and Stogis bring together their years of experience on the front lines of healthcare research and practice to offer an expanded view of the health and community services required of the emerging integrated health system. The authors' powerful three-strategy plan outlines a comprehensive, community-based approach to health promotion and maintenance that sustains and improves the health of all people in the communities served.With models, techniques, and practical tools, Virtually Integrated Health Systems:** details a unique taxonomy of healthcare, health, and social services and shows how to assess your own, your potential partners', and even your competitors' scope of services** offers guidance and insights to address organizational issues of culture, leadership, and human resources** uses the criteria common to most external assessment and accreditation organizations to show how to make external expectations and evaluation criteria a vital part of the assessment processIn this age of integration and consolidation, Virtually Integrated Health Systems provides a valuable strategic planning tool for administrative and clinical leaders, clinicians, policymakers, and researchers--within an existing integrated health system, a developing system, or a currently indepAndent organization. Educators as well as managers within managed care and insurance companies, and preferred provider and professional review organizations also will learn how to play an active role in the design and delivery of the comprehensive health systems required for the future.
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