Optimizing primary care services

Optimizing primary care services

An excerpt from a new book, Making Integrated Health Care Work, examines the following questions: 1. Why is the establishment or purchase of primary care physician practices an exploding national trend? 2. Is it better to purchase existing practices or establish new ones from scratch? 3. What are th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Health systems review 1996-05, Vol.29 (3), p.38-43
Hauptverfasser: Coddington, D C, Moore, K D, Fischer, E A
Format: Magazinearticle
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Acquisitions & mergers
Advantages
Affiliates
Clinics
Costs
Decision Making, Organizational
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated - organization & administration
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated - standards
Diffusion of Innovation
Disadvantages
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Family Practice - economics
Family Practice - trends
Group medical practice
Health administration
Health care networks
Hospital-Physician Relations
Hospitals
Integration
Medical practices
Medical referrals
Organizational Innovation
Physicians
Practice Management, Medical - trends
Primary care
Primary Health Care - organization & administration
Primary Health Care - standards
Purchasing, Hospital - economics
Purchasing, Hospital - trends
Trends
United States
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Zusammenfassung:An excerpt from a new book, Making Integrated Health Care Work, examines the following questions: 1. Why is the establishment or purchase of primary care physician practices an exploding national trend? 2. Is it better to purchase existing practices or establish new ones from scratch? 3. What are the pros and cons of virtual integration (affiliation without purchase) versus other forms of integration? 4. In addition to purchasing or developing primary care practices, what are integrated systems doing to ensure that they have an appropriate mix of primary care physicians and specialists?
ISSN:1055-7466