Hospitals in integrated delivery systems.
With inpatient use plummeting and HMOs demanding deep discounts, hospitals are restructuring themselves to run more efficiently and promote health as part of integrated delivery systems. This installment of HSL's continuing series discusses major strategies hospital directors can establish to support their institutions.
D003363:Cost Control; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D017721:Hospital Costs; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics*; D010934:Planning Techniques; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States