The evolving U.S. health care system continues to steer healthcare organizations and integrated healthcare delivery networks (IDNs) to function as population health networks and ACOs. Policymakers, ...

Clinical integration — standardizing clinical practices and processes across providers — can help hospitals and health systems improve quality of care while lowering costs. Rick Lopez, MD, CMO of ...

When Oak Brook, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care launched its Clinical Integration Program a little more than five years ago, very few organizations were aligning with independent physicians in ways ...

Peter Paige says clinical integration initiatives require inclusion of staff members at all sites of care, adoption of best practices, and explaining why the effort promotes patient-centric care and ...

The CMO says clinical integration requires communication, trust, and knowing roles and expectations. To achieve successful clinical services integration, healthcare leaders can't sit in their offices ...

Traditional medicine, encompassing systems such as Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Kampo, Unani, Siddha, and various indigenous practices, has been a cornerstone of healthcare for ...

The opportunities for digital transformation that are emerging from the convergence of acute clinical practice and data integration can drive patient care to new heights of excellence. That was the ...