title: From product line to disease management--easing the transition.
abstract: Most facilities have captured the essence of product-line management, but what is the next step? The traditional reasons for product-line management are still more than valid, but forward-thinking organizations are moving to a disease-management focus.
authors.affiliation: Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation, Nashville, TN, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stanfill
mesh_terms: D019468:Disease Management; D004465:Economic Competition; D017048:Health Care Costs; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011357:Product Line Management / Q000639:trends*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States