What is it about?
The absence of a foundational, comprehensive definition of a large-scale health systems change, such as integration, affects the health system’s ability to develop a clear vision or guiding principles necessary for the active engagement of health services providers in transitioning a hierarchically oriented health system to an integrated health system.
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Why is it important?
This paper provides corporate executive leaders with a systematic leadership approach to organizational readiness, in transitioning to an integrated health system. Features and outcomes of the approach are illustrated.
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Conspicuous by its absence in both government’s imperatives and the literature, is any reference to corporate executive leadership in transitioning a hierarchically oriented health system to a laterally integrated health system referred to, in this paper, as an integrated health system. This lack of reference to executive leadership involvement conveys either significant consequences or opportunities for corporate healthcare executives. The purpose of this qualitative, multi-case study is to explore corporate executive leadership in transitioning a hierarchically oriented health system to an integrated health system.
Livia Martin
Grand Canyon University
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This page is a summary of: Leadership challenge: lateral systems integration for healthcare, Journal of Integrated Care, April 2021, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jica-12-2020-0074.
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