1. integrated delivery system

2. Hospital medicine - Training
According to the State of Hospital Medicine Survey by the Medical Group Management Association and the Society of Hospital Medicine, 89.60% of hospitalists specialize in general internal medicine, 5.5% in a pediatrics subspecialty, 3.7% in family practice and 1.2% in internal medicine pediatrics. Data from the survey also reported that 53.5% of hospitalists are employed by hospitals/integrated delivery system and 25.3% are employed by independent hospitalists groups.

3. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
The 'University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)' is a $10 billion integrated delivery system|integrated global nonprofit health enterprise that has 54,000 employees, 20 hospitals, 4,733 licensed beds, 400 outpatient sites and doctors’ offices, a 2.2 million-member health insurance division, as well as commercial and international ventures.Taken from UPMC's 2009 [ Fast Facts]

4. Managed Care - Managed care techniques
One of the most characteristic forms of managed care is the use of a panel or network of health care providers to provide care to enrollees. Such integrated delivery systems typically include one or more of the following:

5. Informatics Corporation of America
It serves Integrated delivery system|Integrated Delivery Systems (IDNs), Health information exchange|Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), individual hospitals, Independent Practice Associations (IPAs) and Regional Health Information Organization|Regional Health Information Systems (RHIOs)

6. Integrated delivery system
Integrated delivery systems are one example of the emergence of managed care organizations in the United States.

7. National Guideline Clearinghouse
The NGC aims to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation and use

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