Boundaryless Hospital: Rethink and Redefine Health Care Management

By: Horst Albach and Heribert Meffert and Andreas Pinkwart and Ralf Reichwald and Wilfried Von Eiff

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Synopsis: Thisbook discusses current health care challenges and new strategies for innovativesolutions in this area from an interdisciplinary perspective of health caremanagement, business economics, and medicine. It presents the idea of a "boundarylesshospital", a conceptual model of a patient-centric, value-based health network thatovercomes typical sectorial, organizational, and geographical boundaries andoffers greater efficiency and better quality outcomes for patients. Effectivehealth care for a growing and aging population is a major challenge foreconomies all over the world. New breakthroughs in medical technology andpharmaceuticals as well as digitization provide scope for more efficiency andfor a better quality of health care. Novel organization forms and managementconcepts are key for coping with the increasing cost pressure observed in most health caresystems. The contributions in this volume present innovative strategies fordeveloping and implementing the concept of a boundaryless hospital. Theyhighlight experiences from various countries and with different treatments. The book project was initiated and carried out by theCenter for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM), the interdisciplinary researchcenter of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management for business administrationin the 21st century.