Professional Integration

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Professional Integration

Professional integration is a process of making new ways of doing work in a hospital . It is a process of hospital management in which new partnerships between healthcare professionals who are specialized in various aspects occur . Each professional would be having individual skills , knowledge , and experience and hence would be able to provide better quality of care . Professional integration would better help to utilize medical and information systems . The introduction of professional integration or

integrated care pathway (ICP ) would involve a lot of changes . Managing an integrated care approach would involve consideration of factors put forth by the government , department of health , management and other stakeholders . It may be difficult for a physician to perform all the tasks , as there it is not only costly , but also would create a greater shortage of human resources . Hence , it would be ideal for the physician to assign certain responsibilities to other trained professionals in the healthcare system including nurses physiotherapists , respiratory therapists , occupational therapists technicians , specialists , etc . Recently , there has been growth of managed care , and in this system there has been a greater need for professional integration , considering the aim of providing cost-effective treatment to the patient in the form of health packages Using the model of professional integration , physicians would not only play the role of clinician , but would also be performing administrative tasks (Crump , 2002 , Goes , 1995 Briller , 1997

A study was conducted by the Wagner School...