Integration & Physician Issues

Primary care is evolving. Health systems have long recognized the need for control of primary care to feed their secondary and tertiary services. Population health and financial risk-sharing models have increased the urgency to tightly align primary care. Successful health…

Value-based contracting is the standard most hospitals and health systems are trying to achieve right now, but getting to that state takes several calculated steps between physicians and healthcare executives.

Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial HealthCare will take on $68 million in debt when it merges with Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, the physician group of Chicago-based Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, according to a Crain's Chicago Business report.

Less than half of foreign-trained immigrant physicians who apply for American medical residencies succeed, and those who do face a time-consuming, rigorous licensure process, according to a New York Times report.

The Cincinnati area is short 200 primary care physicians currently, and that shortage is expected to grow, according to a recent study by The Health Collaborative and covered by WCPO.

The physician groups of Mercy Health Muskegon (Mich.) and Advantage Health/Saint Mary's in Grand Rapids, Mich., have come together to form Mercy Health Physician Partners.

Newton, Mass.-based Atrius Health, an alliance of six community-based medical groups and a home healthcare and hospice agency, has signed a strategic affiliation agreement with Burlington, Mass.-based Lahey Hospital & Medical Center.

Studer Group, a Gulf Breeze, Fla.-based consulting firm, is holding its "Take You and Your Organization to the Next Level" meeting in Chicago this week. At the meeting Tuesday, Quint Studer, founder of the company, spoke about 10 of the…

After medical school students spent a summer practicing in a rural community, they were more likely to enter family practice residency training and begin their medical careers in a rural location, according to a recent study.

The Aultman Health Foundation in Canton, Ohio, will acquire the clinical operations of North Canton Medical Foundation, an independent medical practice, Sept. 1, according to a Crain's Cleveland Business report.