Integrated Delivery Systems Now or .... ? ?

Integrated delivery systems: the cure for fragmentation.

Our healthcare system is fragmented, with a misalignment of incentives, or lack of coordination, that spawns inefficient allocation of resources. Fragmentation adversely impacts quality, cost, and outcomes. Eliminating waste from unnecessary, unsafe care is crucial for improving quality and reducing costs--and making the system financially sustainable. Many believe this can be achieved through ...

Managed competition, integrated delivery systems and antitrust.

Now or Never?

A N explora t ion was made, o n the in i t i a t ive of Professor P C Mahalanobis . F R S, of possible appl icat ions of geographical techniques to problems of nat ional p lanning; in I n d i a . In pa r t i cu l a r a p i l o t project in regional survey fo r p lanning, purposes was car r ied out in Mysore State, w i th the col labora t ion of I n d i a n geographers, statisticians, and econom...

Novel transdermal drug delivery systems

Background and aim: Eczema is a common inflammatory skin disease. Although history and physical examination are important in diagnosis of allergen, because of extent of environmental allergens, those are not simply recognized. The objective of this study was to determine allergens in patients with contact or atopic dermatitis referred to Razi hospital.Materials and Meth...

Integrated approach to designing growth factor delivery systems.

Growth factors have been widely used in strategies to regenerate and repair diseased tissues, but current therapies that go directly from bench to bedside have had limited clinical success. We hypothesize that engineering successful therapies with recombinant proteins will often require specific quantitative information of the spatiotemporal role of the factors and the development of sophistica...