Tracking The Changing Provider Landscape: Implications For Health Policy And Practice

• Published in: Health Affairs Vol. 20; no. 6; pp. 188 - 196
• Main Authors: Bazzoli, Gloria J, Shortell, Stephen M, Ciliberto, Federico, Kralovec, Peter D, Dubbs, Nicole L
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Health Affairs 01.11.2001; The People to People Health Foundation, Inc., Project HOPE
• Subjects: Centralization; Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration; Delivery of Health Care - trends; Health care; Health care delivery; Health care networks; Health care policy; Health Care Reform; Health Care Sector; Health Policy; Health services; Health Services Research; Independent practice associations; Integrated delivery systems; Longitudinal studies; Organizational change; Organizational Innovation; Physicians; Product development; Statistical analysis; Studies; Taxonomy; Trends; United States; United States; United States > US

Throughout the 1990s health care providers were interested in developing organized delivery systems. However, industry observers have increasingly questioned the sense of these efforts. Using an established taxonomy of health networks and systems, we examined whether there was a nationwide trend awa...