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D J Keen

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Health care reform: how hospitals, physicians should prepare.

As the momentum behind health care reform continues to build, hospitals should take specific steps to prepare for each likely scenario. The authors speculate about what form health care reform will take, discuss the strategic implications of each scenario and suggest steps hospitals should take, including an analysis of hospital/physician integration, marketing, services and efficiency.

Cost-Benefit Analysis↗

Understanding economic modeling aids in decision making.

With the problems some hospitals are facing in raising capital, the importance of careful economic analyses increases. Four economic models, the demand model, economic feasibility model, economic impact model, and econometric model, can all be used by the healthcare industry to perform a thorough analysis. By doing economic analyses, hospitals will be able to more effectively allocate scarce financial resources and identify potential returns and risks associated with investments.

Decision Making, Organizational↗