Planning has some new dimensions.
The demise of the health systems agencies means that planning for institutional survival will take place in a more competitive environment, and that the components of the planning function have new dimensions. Planners must take into account not only the epidemiology of the population but also its economic characteristics, the extent to which the market for medical services will be reorganized by new corporate conglomerates and multiunit management systems, and the reluctance of physicians and patients to embrace the trend to corporate enterprise.
D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000639:trends; D006285:Health Planning / Q000639:trends*; D006307:Health Systems Agencies / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States