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Health Care Delivery Innovations That Integrate Care? Yes!

JAMA, 2016
To enable improved cost control, quality, and access, US health care delivery is moving from fragmented fee-for-service delivery into various innovative integrated models, including accountable care organizations (ACOs), patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs), and bundles, defined as a coordinated group of services for a specific need, administered ...
Regina E, Herzlinger   +2 more
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The Imperative for Integrating Public Health and Health Care Delivery Systems

NEJM Catalyst, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic illustrates how responsibility for activities of distinct elements of the health care universe can overlap or even shift.
Frederick P. Cerise   +3 more
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Integration Mechanisms and Hospital Efficiency in Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems

Journal of Medical Systems, 2002
This 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?
Blossom Yen-Ju Lin
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Integrated Delivery Networks: A Detour On The Road To Integrated Health Care?

Health Affairs, 2002
This paper reviews the rationales and evidence for horizontal and vertical integration involving hospitals. We find a disjunction between the integration rationales espoused by providers and those cited in the academic literature. We also generally find that integration fails to improve hospitals' economic performance.
Lawton R, Burns, Mark V, Pauly
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A CNS Integrated Health Care Delivery System Model

Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1995
The more complicated a client's health needs are, the higher the risk for inappropriate utilization of services, fragmentation of care and delays in system access. The challenge is to ensure that patients move appropriately from one access point to another in the most efficient, effective manner.
A G, Jacoby   +3 more
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Health Care Delivery: Searching for Integration

Academic Pediatrics, 2011
From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa Address correspondence to Stephen Ludwig, MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th St and Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia ...
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Complications of Colonoscopy in an Integrated Health Care Delivery System

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2006
Information about colonoscopy complications, particularly postpolypectomy bleeding, is limited.To quantify the magnitude and severity of colonoscopy complications.Retrospective cohort.Kaiser Permanente of Northern California.16, 318 members 40 years of age or older undergoing colonoscopy between January 1994 and July 2002.Electronic records reviewed ...
Theodore R, Levin   +6 more
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21st-Century Health Care — The Case for Integrated Delivery Systems

New England Journal of Medicine, 2009
Dr. 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.
Francis J Crosson
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Care delivery innovation in an integrated health system

Nurse Leader, 2004
Abstract 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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