ITEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS

Integrated Health care Systems

Integrated Health care Systems

Issue Statement

Integrative healthcare care" has become a widespread period to describe groups of healthcare care supplyrs employed together to supply patient vehiclee. However this term has not been well-defined and expected means numerous distinct things to distinct people. The reason of this paper is to evolve a conceptual framework for recounting, matching and evaluating distinct types of team-oriented healthcare care practices that have evolved in Western healthcare care schemes.

Summary/Background

Seven distinct forms of team-oriented health care practice are illustrated in this paper: aligned, consultative, collaborative, coordinated, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and integrative. Each of these forms occupies a place along the proposed continuum from the non-integrative to completely integrative approach they take to patient care. The framework is evolved round four key components of integrative health care perform: philosophy/values; structure, method and outcomes.

It is expected that health outcomes will focus more on multiple aspects of well-being as one move along the continuum. In addition, it has been hypothesized that care may be more cost-effective in the long period as one moves from left to right over the continuum of practice models. The complexity and diversity of outcomes that need to be assessed are likely to boost along this continuum since the expanding number of distinct disciplines assisting to persevering care may be anticipated to affect and consider healthcare conclusions distinctly and incorporate an expanding number of health determinants. Furthermore, team-based practice models on the right side of the continuum are inclined to characterise the notion of advanced health not only in terms of personal and mental functioning, but also in periods of well-being and are more likely to stress the importance of considering patient-defined outcomes.

Analyzing

Understanding the continuum concept also has implications for healthcare care managers and policy makers. The decreasing significance ...