Clinical Integration: Population Health and Accountable Care

Clinical Integration: Population Health and Accountable CareThird Edition offers a comprehensive collection of fresh insights on the evolution of clinically integrated networks (CINs) and accountable care organizations (ACOs) across the United States (US) healthcare system. This edition examines the early effects of the Affordable Care Act, and updates the chapters on financial management, quality, primary care, regulatory, leadership, network evolution, health information technology and comparative effectiveness research. It also introduces a number of new topics that are becoming an important part of the health care system as these networks are developing, with discussions on patient engagement, industry accreditation and standards, care coordination, and behavioral health integration with medical care. This is a rigorously researched textbook and desk reference manual appropriate for health plans and providers, academic medicine, health services research, physician leaders, healthcare policy makers, public health and other government officials, and healthcare legal staff.