Integration challenges. What you can do to smooth the transition.
As the focus in healthcare delivery shifts to building a seamless continuum of care, many organizations are turning to integrated delivery systems as a way to provide high-quality healthcare while keeping costs down. Although these systems can take many forms, they often encounter similar roadblocks once the components are put into place. Healthcare Executive talked with several consultants and healthcare executives about some of the challenges you can address before and during integration to help you avoid those roadblocks later.
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Hay Group, Dallas, TX, USA.
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