Journal article
What's in a Name? The Necessary Transformation of the Academic Medical Center in the Era of Population Health and Accountable Care
Academic medicine, v 90(7), pp 842-845
01 Jul 2015
PMID: 26414052
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Abstract
Academic medical centers (AMCs) and the physicians and other professionals who lead them need to recognize they are in a business that is making a transition from a system of sickness care to one of health care, accountable for the health of defined populations and for the value (quality divided by cost) of the services provided. This change has profound implications for how AMCs conceive themselves, how they function, and how they are paid for the work that they do. A failure to recognize how the disruption of the mission of AMCs is changing may impair them as irrevocably as other changes caused the demise of Kodak, once the world's leader in the manufacture and sale of photographic film and cameras. Leaders of academic medicine need to understand, respond to, and ultimately lead the transformation of our system of health. In this Commentary, the authors review the pressures driving these changes and potential responses to thema process already under way. They summarize the issues in the question Should the words health' and system' take the place of medical' and center' in our institutions' names and, more important, in how we conceive of what we do? The authors propose the name academic health system to better identify primary objectives to measure success by the health of patients.
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- Title
- What's in a Name? The Necessary Transformation of the Academic Medical Center in the Era of Population Health and Accountable Care
- Creators
- Verdi J. DiSesa - Temple University Health SystemLarry R. Kaiser - Twitter (United States)
- Publication Details
- Academic medicine, v 90(7), pp 842-845
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Number of pages
- 4
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Medicine
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000357093500008
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84943606392
- Other Identifier
- 991021448048704721
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- Education, Scientific Disciplines
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