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Boundaryless Hospital

Rethink and Redefine Health Care Management

  • Analyzes the drivers of a fundamental organizational change in health care
  • Develops novel approaches to a new design of supply chains and to the reorganization of hospitals and pharmaceutical companies
  • Brings together interdisciplinary research results from business economics, medicine, pharmacy, and health economics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Challenges and Opportunities of Health Care Management in the Twenty-First Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Cancer Care: New Value Chains Challenge German Hospital Structures—A Comprehensive Cancer Center Perspective

      • Florian Kron, Andreas Bernschein, Anna Kostenko, Jürgen Wolf, Michael Hallek, Jan-Peter Glossmann
      Pages 21-40
  3. Seizing the Opportunities Across Countries and Subdisciplines

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
    2. Pathways Towards Health Care Systems with a Chronic-Care Focus: Beyond the Four Walls

      • Manuel García-Goñi, Peter McKiernan, Francesco Paolucci
      Pages 59-80
    3. Networked Care: IT-Assisted Tools (Wearable Sensors) for Patients at Risk

      • Kurt J. G. Schmailzl, Hans H. Th. Sendler
      Pages 103-118
    4. Carving Out a Place for New Health Care Occupations: An Ethnographic Study into Job Crafting

      • Maarten Janssen, Iris Wallenburg, Antoinette de Bont
      Pages 119-141

About this book

This book discusses current health care challenges and new strategies for innovative solutions in this area from an interdisciplinary perspective of health care management, business economics, and medicine. It presents the idea of a “boundaryless hospital”, a conceptual model of a patient-centric, value-based health network that overcomes typical sectorial, organizational, and geographical boundaries and offers greater efficiency and better quality outcomes for patients.

Effective health care for a growing and aging population is a major challenge for economies all over the world. New breakthroughs in medical technology and pharmaceuticals as well as digitization provide scope for more efficiency and for a better quality of health care. Novel organization forms and management concepts are key for coping with the increasing cost pressure observed in most health care systems. The contributions in this volume present innovative strategies for developing and implementing the concept of a boundaryless hospital. They highlight experiences from various countries and with different treatments.

The book project was initiated and carried out by the Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM), the interdisciplinary research center of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management for business administration in the 21st century.

Editors and Affiliations

  • HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Managemnt, Center for Advanced Studies in Managemnt, Leipzig, Germany

    Horst Albach, Heribert Meffert, Ralf Reichwald

  • Leipzig Graduate School of Mgmt, Center for Advanced Studies in Managemnt, Leipzig, Germany

    Andreas Pinkwart

  • HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Managemnt, Center for Health Care Managemnt & Regul, Leipzig, Germany

    Wilfried von Eiff

About the editors

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Horst Albach, Professor Emeritus, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Heribert Meffert, Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Marketing Center Münster at the University of Münster, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, Dean of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and Holder of the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at HHL, and Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Dr. h.c. Ralf Reichwald, Professor Emeritus of Excellence, Technische Universität München, and Academic Director of the Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC) at HHL, are the founders and academic directors of the Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM), an interdisciplinary research center of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management devoted to key research topics of business administration for the 21st century.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Wilfried von Eiff, Professor of Health Care Management at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, is the Academic Director of the Center for Health Care Management and Regulation at HHL and Director of the Center for Hospital Management, a research institute affiliated to the University of Münster.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Boundaryless Hospital

  • Book Subtitle: Rethink and Redefine Health Care Management

  • Editors: Horst Albach, Heribert Meffert, Andreas Pinkwart, Ralf Reichwald, Wilfried von Eiff

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49012-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-49010-5Published: 10 February 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-56969-6Published: 31 March 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-49012-9Published: 01 February 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 360

  • Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Health Care Management, Public Health, Health Economics, Health Informatics

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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