During the 1980s and 1990s, changes in the U.S. health care payer environment as a result of the merger of many community hospitals in the hospital system. Based in Appleton, Wisconsin, ThedaCare out among community hospital system in its efforts to rationalize health care, clinical quality improvement, and based on the cost of delivery. Driven by determined leadership, ThedaCare started online services line rationalization and introduced innovative models of care. ThedaCare is a metaphor to address the transformation of the American system of community hospitals. Can be used for learning: the evolution of structure, organization and strategy of American community hospital systems, integrated units practice and care cycles, management processes to improve health care quality problems in the diffusion of innovative care delivery and cost transparency and the quality of the measurements. "Hide
by Michael E. Porter, Sachin H Jain Source: Harvard Business School 27 pages. Publication Date: November 9, 2007. Prod. #: 708424-PDF-ENG
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