title: The emerging health care landscape. The drivers of health care.
abstract: Other than hold on tight, how does a health care system successfully weather the turbulent conditions facing the industry? This article focuses on key drivers in the three main segments of the health care market: employer-based, commercial/ERISA, and Medicare and Medicaid. Effectively managing the dynamics within these markets will be vital to a delivery system's success and its ability to withstand the forces of change. Given the market changes that are occurring, how does an academic medical center, emerging hospital-sponsored IDS, or a large physician clinic trying to develop a system determine the necessary components and structure? What kind of system will work best? The considerations are numerous and explored in this article.
authors.affiliation: Advanced Health Plans, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Sokolov
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D004465:Economic Competition / Q000639:trends*; D019461:Employee Retirement Income Security Act; D005431:Florida; D006291:Health Policy; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D008484:Medicaid; D006278:Medicare; D017146:Models, Organizational; D013714:Tennessee; D014481:United States