Objectives: With decreasing healthcare reimbursement, nurse administrators need to aggressively manage care for high-resource users of hospital services to ensure the viability of their healthcare ...

Payers are demanding that US health care become more accountable and integrated, posing new demands for physicians and the organizations that partner with them. We conducted focus groups with 30 ...

“I think the traditional definition of an integrated delivery network is going to change.” Those were the words spoken by Sara Vaezy, Providence’s chief strategy and digital officer, during a Reuters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...