Hospitals and health systems are constantly seeking new ways to improve the quality and cost of care. Increasingly, hospitals and physicians are turning to clinical integration as a strategy to ...

While most physicians understand the need to integrate with hospitals, many of them seem ambivalent about taking the plunge. For example, a recent survey of physicians by PricewaterhouseCoopers found ...

For decades, vertical integration meant ownership. According to Michael E. Porter's seminal work Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, companies sought to reduce costs, ...