"Through healthcare reform, payment modifications, transparency, and a renewed focus on value, the healthcare industry is changing its organizational structure from one of a multitude of individual entities to one of a system-of-care model. This restructuring and subsequent alignment of information represents many opportunities and risks for physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers. Discussing all of the relevant issues involved, this book looks at various ways that physicians and hospitals can create systems that will survive and thrive through the important changes facing healthcare today"--Provided by publisher.