This DataWatch evaluates four-stage models of market evolution developed initially by the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC). Such models suggest that increasing health maintenance organization ...

Advanced care at home (otherwise known as hospital at home) can be scaled and provide care for a sizable portion of a hospital’s inpatient census, creating hospital capacity in an integrated delivery ...

Sara Vaezy, Providence’s chief strategy and digital officer, thinks the definition of an integrated delivery system is going to change. In her view, health systems will be more successful if they let ...

Orthopedic Associates of Pittsburgh has affiliated with Highmark‘s Integrated Delivery System. Five OAPGH surgeons began working as Highmark providers on April 1. They focus on knee, foot, ankle, hip, ...

Without deliberately designed mechanisms for data integration and oversight, greater choice may weaken the accountability that is a hallmark benefit of integrated delivery systems. Federal health ...