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Article: Milwaukee moving toward integrated medical systems Doctor affiliations cut costs elsewhere; will it help here?
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 6, 2009
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By GUY BOULTON
One of the persistent problems in the U.S. health care system is
that doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others too often do a poor job
of working together when caring for patients.
The result can be unneeded and duplicative care, errors and
preventable hospital readmissions -- not to mention frustrated
patients and family members.
"We've seen across the country far too many examples of the
failures that result from the lack of integration and coordination,"
said Peter Lee, executive director for national health policy at the
Pacific Business Group on Health.
That is one of the reasons integrated health care systems, in
which doctors work in large, multispecialty practices ...