Beyond integrated care

Population health systems: going beyond integrated care

Integrated care in the daily work: coordination beyond organisational boundaries

OBJECTIVES In this paper, integrated care in an inter-organisational cooperative setting of in-home elderly care is studied. The aim is to explore how home care workers coordinate their daily work, identify coordination issues in situ and discuss possible actions for supporting seamless and integrated elderly care at home. METHOD The empirical findings are drawn from an ethnographic workplace...

Beyond hypertension: integrated cardiovascular care as a path to comprehensive primary care

Beyond hypertension: integrated cardiovascular care as a path to comprehensive primary care Sandeep P Kishore, David J Heller & Ashwin Vasan a Arnhold Institute for Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System, 1216 Fifth Avenue, Room 562, New York, New York 10029, United States of America (USA). b Department of Population and Family Health and Medicine, Columbia Univers...

Integrated Care: A Pill for All Ills?

There is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. However, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. In this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what...

Integrated care requires integrated supervision

INTRODUCTION Given recent developments in integrated care, it is becoming increasingly important for the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate to direct its supervision in a way that may help speed up the implementation of integrated care. DESCRIPTION OF CARE PRACTICE Since the implementation of integrated care for chronic patients is facing obstacles, alternative methods are required to ensure that...