Adapting Private Practice Medical Oncology to a Changing Health Care System

Adapting to a changing health care environment.

I feel very honored and privileged to assume the chairmanship of the American College of Cardiology Imaging Council (ACC), and would like to congratulate Dr. Neil Weissman on a job superbly done last year! The Cardiovascular Imaging Section of the ACC was formed in 2011 and is one of its largest (3,800 members as of May 31, 2014), the fastest growing (110% growth since 2012), and certainly the ...

Rural health networks: adapting to a changing health care environment.

Unemployment and financial struggles affect big and small communities alike. The current economic climate, coupled with changes to the health care environment, presents a unique opportunity for health care providers and community leaders to collaborate, integrate and network. The benefits of health networks are and can be tremendous during times of economic hardships. It takes great effort to a...

Changing practice in health care.

The Changing Private Practice Environment:

The physician private practice arena has evolved from the days of the single family practitioner delivering house calls to one where options such as an affiliation of independent practitioners to purchase supplies or the integration of multi-specialty medical groups and hospitals into regional health systems are available. The transition to these sophisticated systems for the delivery of medica...

Hospitals in a changing health care system.

Health system change is happening locally, and hospitals are at the center of this change. This paper, which presents data from a 1995 study of fifteen diverse communities, sketches the broad economic and organizational forces affecting hospitals in these communities and the hospitals' responses. Within these larger trends, local flavors and differences emerge. These appear to reflect variation...