[Which reasons may hinder Integrated Health Care from spreading as regular health care provision in cardiology?].
Integrated Health Care may possibly be a training field for efficient patient and case management between different providers involved. In the medium term, those instruments should be developed further so that they are no longer merely tools for cost containment, risk transfer to the providers side and competition for the good risks in health care. In the present state Integrated Health Care--as many other new regulations--means a displacement of money from health care to administration. All participants are urged to check their contracts that the benefit for patients exceeds the price of the paper.
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Chefarzt der Kardiologischen Klinik, Klinikum Nürnberg-Süd Nürnberg, Breslauer Strasse 201, 90471 Nürnberg. gottwik@jklinikum-nuernberg.de
D002017:Budgets; D002309:Cardiology / Q000639:trends*; D019090:Case Management; D032982:Contracts / Q000191:economics; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D004465:Economic Competition; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics; D005791:Patient Care; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms