The author of the post, Wesley Curry, MD, said the cooperation and coordination of different hospital departments will be similar to 18th century economist Adam Smith’s definition of “perfect competition.”
“In the theory of ‘perfect competition,’ there is no market entity powerful enough to set a price, just as in the acute-care continuum participants work in a collaborative setting without a singular, powerful entity setting the complete cycle of patient care,” according to the article.
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