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Benchmarks of successful physician-hospital organizations. 1996

B D Wong

In recent years, there have been a proliferation of physician-hospital organizations (PHOs) in the medical community across the country. To date, many of them have been ineffective with unproven track records. This article will explore some of the benchmarks of successful PHOs.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008329	Managed Care Programs	Health insurance plans intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for reviewing the medical necessity of specific services; increased beneficiary cost sharing; controls on inpatient admissions and lengths of stay; the establishment of cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery; selective contracting with health care providers; and the intensive management of high-cost health care cases. The programs may be provided in a variety of settings, such as HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS and PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATIONS.	Case Management, Insurance,Insurance Case Management,Managed Health Care Insurance Plans,Managed Care,Care, Managed,Managed Care Program,Management, Insurance Case,Program, Managed Care,Programs, Managed Care
D010934	Planning Techniques	Procedures, strategies, and theories of planning.	Planning Theories,Methodology, Planning,Planning Methodology,Planning Technic,Planning Methodologies,Planning Technics,Planning Technique,Planning Theory,Technic, Planning,Technique, Planning,Theory, Planning
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
D017749	Total Quality Management	The application of industrial management practice to systematically maintain and improve organization-wide performance. Effectiveness and success are determined and assessed by quantitative quality measures.	Continuous Quality Management,Lean Six Sigma,Sigma Metrics,Six Sigma,Lean Six Sigmas,Management, Continuous Quality,Management, Total Quality,Metric, Sigma,Metrics, Sigma,Sigma Metric,Sigma, Six,Sigmas, Six,Six Sigma, Lean,Six Sigmas,Six Sigmas, Lean
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