Clinical Integration: Strategies and Practices for Organized Delivery Systems

"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