Rural physicians, rural networks, and free market health care in the 1990s
| Autor: | Fox C, James P, Wysong J, Thomas C. Rosenthal, FitzPatrick Pg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Rural Population
Economic growth HRHIS business.industry Rural health Health Maintenance Organizations General Medicine Community Networks United States Community hospital Health administration Nursing Physicians Health care Humans Medicine Managed care Capitation Fee Free market business Capitalization |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Family Medicine. 6:319-323 |
| ISSN: | 1063-3987 |
| DOI: | 10.1001/archfami.6.4.319 |
| Popis: | The changes brought about by managed care in America's urban communities will have profound effects on rural physicians and hospitals. The rural health care market characterized by small, independent group practices working with community hospitals is being offered affiliations with large, often urban-based health care organizations. Health care is evolving into a free market system characterized by large networks of organizations capable of serving whole regions. Rural provider-initiated networks can assure local representation when participating in the new market and improve the rural health infrastructure. Although an extensive review of the literature from 1970 to 1996 reveals little definitive research about networks, many rural hospitals have embraced networking as one strategy to unify health care systems with minimal capitalization. These networks, now licensed in Minnesota and New York, offer rural physicians the opportunity to team up with their community hospital and enhance local health care accessibility. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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