Biomaterial Database

Year 2000 scenario for physician-hospital organizations. 1994

R C Coile

Health Forecasting Group, Santa Clarita, CA.

The coming of managed competition and health care reform requires the development of medical organizations on which to build the community care networks of the future. This chapter postulates a scenario for such development by the year 2000.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007588	Job Satisfaction	Personal satisfaction relative to the work situation.	Work Satisfaction,Job Satisfactions,Satisfaction, Job,Satisfaction, Work,Satisfactions, Job,Satisfactions, Work,Work Satisfactions
D010820	Physicians	Individuals licensed to practice medicine.	Physician
D011362	Professional Corporations	Legally authorized corporations owned and managed by one or more professionals (medical, dental, legal) in which the income is ascribed primarily to the professional activities of the owners or stockholders.	Corporate Practice,Corporate Practices,Corporation, Professional,Corporations, Professional,Practice, Corporate,Practices, Corporate,Professional Corporation
D006123	Group Practice	Any group of three or more full-time physicians organized in a legally recognized entity for the provision of health care services, sharing space, equipment, personnel and records for both patient care and business management, and who have a predetermined arrangement for the distribution of income.	Group Practices,Practice, Group,Practices, Group
D006759	Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures	A formal financial agreement made between one or more physicians and a hospital to provide ambulatory alternative services to those patients who do not require hospitalization.	Joint Ventures, Hospital-Physician,Physician-Hospital Organizations,Hospital-Physician Joint Venture,Hospital-Physician Organizations,Joint Venture, Hospital-Physician,Joint Ventures,Organizations, Hospital-Physician,Organizations, Physician-Hospital,Hospital Physician Joint Venture,Hospital Physician Joint Ventures,Hospital Physician Organizations,Hospital-Physician Organization,Joint Venture,Joint Venture, Hospital Physician,Joint Ventures, Hospital Physician,Organization, Hospital-Physician,Organization, Physician-Hospital,Organizations, Hospital Physician,Organizations, Physician Hospital,Physician Hospital Organizations,Physician-Hospital Organization,Venture, Hospital-Physician Joint,Venture, Joint,Ventures, Hospital-Physician Joint,Ventures, Joint
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D017146	Models, Organizational	Theoretical representations and constructs that describe or explain the structure and hierarchy of relationships and interactions within or between formal organizational entities or informal social groups.	Organizational Models,Model, Organizational,Organizational Model
D018166	Health Care Reform	Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.	Healthcare Reform,Health Care Reforms,Healthcare Reforms,Reform, Health Care,Reform, Healthcare,Reforms, Health Care,Reforms, Healthcare
D018511	Systems Integration	The procedures involved in combining separately developed modules, components, or subsystems so that they work together as a complete system. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)	Integration, Systems,Integrations, Systems,Systems Integrations