Implementing organized delivery systems: an integration scorecard

Health Care Manage Rev. 1994 Summer;19(3):7-20.

Abstract

Organized vertically integrated health systems are in a key position to play a major role in present health care reform efforts. To demonstrate a competitive advantage in the new health care environment, however, integration efforts must be successful. Based on a national study of nine organized delivery systems, this article develops measures of three types of integration that occur in vertically integrated health systems--functional, physician-system, and clinical. These measures can be used as a "scorecard" to assess progress toward achieving integration objectives.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Comprehensive Health Care / organization & administration*
  • Economic Competition
  • Efficiency, Organizational*
  • Health Care Reform
  • Health Services Research
  • Models, Organizational
  • Multi-Institutional Systems / organization & administration*
  • Organizational Objectives
  • Outcome Assessment, Health Care
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Systems Integration*
  • United States