It should not be surprising that the realignment of the industry, merging formerly competing entities, has not been a smooth course. Participants in integration efforts — whether from physician ...

The past few years of growth in medical practice acquisitions has shown little signs of slowing down, with insurers lately joining health systems in the practice buying spree. According to Modern ...

In recent years direct ownership of physician practices by hospitals and health systems (that is, vertical integration) has become a prominent feature of the US health care system. One unexplored ...

Big Data Integration in Practice In this respect, no application—no use case—is more challenging than that of advanced analytics. This is an umbrella term for a class of analytics that involves ...

Big Data Integration in Practice In this respect, no application—no use case—is more challenging than that of advanced analytics. This is an umbrella term for a class of analytics that involves ...

Local governments are sitting on a goldmine of spatial data, yet most plan review departments can’t easily access it when they need it most. While jurisdictions maintain extensive geographic ...

Integration is a mutual, gradual and multi-faceted process, with inter-related legal, socio-economic and cultural dimensions. Integration programmes require coordination, collaboration, and secure ...