Strategic Management and Integrated Care in a Competitive Environment

Volker Amelung (), Sebastian Himmler () and Viktoria Stein ()
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Volker Amelung: Hannover Medical School
Sebastian Himmler: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Viktoria Stein: University of Birmingham

Chapter 24 in Handbook of Integrated Care, 2025, pp 433-447 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-96286-8_23

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