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 ...

Health systems, providers, and patients all benefit from the improved care coordination that comes with clinical integration. Better communication between clinicians across specialties means they can ...

Clinical integration involves coordinating ongoing health care services across health professionals, facilities, and support systems to meet patient care needs. In a study published in The Annals of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft and Mayo Clinic are expanding their collaboration on healthcare AI, using large-scale foundation models that ...

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 ...