Integrated Service Delivery Health Systems

Integrated Service Delivery Health Systems
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The article ‘Designing Integrated Service Delivery Health Systems by Ted Ball` provide guidelines to health care designers involved in planning a transformational, customer focused, health system in Ontario. It also advocates for timely reforms in the organization of health service delivery.
The emphasis is on the transformation of current organizational set-up to a systems approach model; that will address the ills such as poor service delivery designs, financial and human resource waste, and flawed organizational management structures. Embracing the system thinking and the resultant designs, promises benefits not only to the health care institution (including staff accountability for outcomes, conducive environment for innovation and creativity, professional interdependent and quality services) but also to the communities as key participant in integrative planning and problem solving. Nevertheless, how do we achieve and implement a successful intergraded healthcare service delivery system and indeed a "Made -in- Ontar...