title: MSO growth, vertical vs. 'virtual' integration to top 1996 trends list.
abstract: After a whirlwind 1995, what's coming for healthcare systems in 1996? Not much time to rest, predicts Alan Zuckerman, executive vice president, Chi Systems Inc., Philadelphia. More intense competition between for-profit and not-for-profit health systems, a rising debate over vertical vs. "virtual" integration and a wave of management services organizations could define 1996.
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000639:trends; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000639:trends; D016304:Hospitals, Private / Q000458:organization & administration; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000458:organization & administration; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States