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Integration Mechanisms and Hospital Efficiency in Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems
Journal of Medical Systems, 2002This study analyzes integration mechanisms that affect system performances measured by indicators of efficiency in integrated delivery systems (IDSs) in the United States. The research question is, do integration mechanisms improve IDSs' efficiency in hospital care?
Thomas T H, Wan +2 more
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Care delivery innovation in an integrated health system
Nurse Leader, 2004Abstract In an environment marked by continuous change, organizations that develop a capacity for innovation have a distinct competitive advantage. In today's health care environment, moreover, innovative care delivery increasingly is recognized as essential for organizational stability and success.
Edward J Schumacher +2 more
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Integrating Integrated Laboratory Information into Health Care Delivery Systems
Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 1999Attention to integration of laboratory data and its integration into clinical processes and enterprises can help make the laboratory's work a more integral part of clinical practice. The resulting integration holds great potential for improving the quality and effectiveness of care and adding to the clinical value of the laboratory work.
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Primary and secondary care integration in delivery of value-based health-care systems
British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2018The Five Year Forward View ( NHS England, 2014 ) endorses outcomes-based approaches and integrated care systems. This article looks at the role and functions of hospitals in value-based health-care systems, following Porter's value-based health-care framework.
Manpreet, Bains +2 more
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Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, 2013
The specialty pharmaceuticals market is expanding more rapidly than the traditional pharmaceuticals market. Specialty pharmacy operations have evolved to deliver selected medications and associated clinical services. The growing role of specialty drugs requires new approaches to managing the use of these drugs.
C Douglas, Monroe, Karen Y, Chin
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The specialty pharmaceuticals market is expanding more rapidly than the traditional pharmaceuticals market. Specialty pharmacy operations have evolved to deliver selected medications and associated clinical services. The growing role of specialty drugs requires new approaches to managing the use of these drugs.
C Douglas, Monroe, Karen Y, Chin
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21st-Century Health Care — The Case for Integrated Delivery Systems
New England Journal of Medicine, 2009Dr. Francis Crosson argues that two interacting sets of changes need to occur: movement away from fee-for-service payment of physicians toward prospective payment, and multispecialty integration of physicians combined with hospitals to form new “accountable” systems of care.
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Telemedicine and Integrated Health Care Delivery: Compounding Malpractice Liability
American Journal of Law & Medicine, 1999Telemedicine became a significant part of the health care equation long before we realized what it was or how important it will be in the future. Telephone discussions and consultations between health care providers have been a part of medical practice since Alexander Graham Bell gifted society with telephones.
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Integrated delivery of primary health care for humans and animals
Agriculture and Human Values, 1998Partially because of the high cost of developing and maintaining cold chains, systems needed to keep heat-labile vaccines under adequate refrigeration from their points of manufacture to their administration in the field, the Joint WHO/FAO Expert Committee on Zoonoses (i.e., the approximately four fifths of all described human infections that people ...
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Integrated delivery systems: the Edsel of health care.
Medical interface, 1996Integrated delivery systems (IDSs) describe the various pieces of the provider world that have been pulled together contractually under one corporate roof, forming a single, relatively complete local delivery system to assume risk. Technically, the earliest examples of an IDS are HMOs themselves, be they IPA, staff, or group models. However, an HMO was
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