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Strategic Management and Integrated Care in a Competitive Environment

In: Handbook Integrated Care

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  • Volker Amelung

    (Medical School Hannover
    Institute for Applied Health Services Research (iNAV))

  • Sebastian Himmler

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Viktoria Stein

    (University of Birmingham)

Abstract

This chapter emphasizes that integrated care is a means to an end, not an end in itself. It serves merely as a strategy aimed at providing better services for patients and populations. The aim of integrated care is to improve quality, not to reduce costs. As illustrated throughout this book, an integrated care strategy may be implemented on different levels, but in order to be sustainable and effective, it must permeate all tiers of the healthcare value chain—from the system level to the individual level.

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  • Volker Amelung & Sebastian Himmler & Viktoria Stein, 2021. "Strategic Management and Integrated Care in a Competitive Environment," Springer Books, in: Volker Amelung & Viktoria Stein & Esther Suter & Nicholas Goodwin & Ellen Nolte & Ran Balicer (ed.), Handbook Integrated Care, edition 2, chapter 0, pages 377-391, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-69262-9_23
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-69262-9_23
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