title: HealthPartners uses specialist scorecard to improve clinical outcomes.
abstract: In the world of managed care, primary care physicians used to be the coordinators of care and they determined when patients saw specialists. But that view was turned upside down by a patient backlash against the gatekeeper approach. To keep their customers, managed care companies decided to allow direct access to specialists.
mesh_terms: D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D008485:Medical Audit; D008511:Medicine; D008910:Minnesota; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D013038:Specialization