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Strategic Management and Integrated Care in a Competitive Environment

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Few integrated care-related issues depend on health system design as much as the question of integrated care as a strategic option. The question is whether integrated care is a suitable competitive positioning strategy in a competition-oriented health care system. For example, a hospital can consider whether it should expand into upstream and/or downstream service sectors in order to improve its strategic position. In addition to improving patient care, other potential targets of focus may include the growth of market share, the creation of barriers to entry for competitors, capacity utilization, the use of synergy potentials, product line expansion, risk diversification and entry into more profitable market segments. Integrated care in this context is regarded as an instrument for achieving pre-defined objectives.

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  1. Institute for Epidemology, Social Medicine and Health System Research, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Volker Amelung

  2. inav - Institute for Applied Health Services Research, Berlin, Germany

    Volker Amelung & Sebastian Himmler

  3. University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

    Sebastian Himmler

  4. International Foundation for Integrated Care, Oxford, UK

    Viktoria Stein

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  1. Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health System Research, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Volker Amelung

  2. International Foundation for Integrated Care, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Viktoria Stein

  3. International Foundation for Integrated Care, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Nicholas Goodwin

  4. Health Policy Research and Planning, Clalit Health Services, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    Ran Balicer

  5. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, London School of Economics and Political Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

    Ellen Nolte

  6. Workforce Research & Evaluation, Alberta Health Services Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Esther Suter

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Amelung, V., Himmler, S., Stein, V. (2017). Strategic Management and Integrated Care in a Competitive Environment. In: Amelung, V., Stein, V., Goodwin, N., Balicer, R., Nolte, E., Suter, E. (eds) Handbook Integrated Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56103-5_9

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