title: Beyond DRGs--positioning a system to compete with existing and new specialty providers.
abstract: To compete effectively, hospital administrators need to define their businesses and markets and assess their position within those markets. This article presents a system, developed at Forbes Health System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, designed to accomplish this task. Included here are the three steps necessary to apply the strategic program unit technique.
mesh_terms: D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D004465:Economic Competition; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000379:methods*; D006782:Hospitals, Special / Q000191:economics; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D010934:Planning Techniques