What will 2012 hold for health care? Let’s ignore for now the inevitable political controversy and ideological teeth-grinding over health reform that will no doubt continue on both sides of the Atlantic.
If we focus instead on the payment and delivery system reforms that will preoccupy the health sector, then the concept of integrated care is likely to be somewhere near the top of the list (again).
Here, in the US, this means 2012 will be the year of the ACO – ‘the accountable care organisation’ – widely regarded as a cornerstone of the current reform agenda. The past...
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