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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Hector Rodriguez Argues Brick-and-Mortar Health Care Consolidation Is Short-Sighted
Description: There's a tremendous amount of consolidation going on in the health care sector. A lot of the research about consolidation focuses on the economics. But, one of the primary arguments people make for bringing disparate parts of the health system together is that it enables clinical integration.Patients, they say, should get better care if the clinicians are talking to each other and sharing information, which is easier to do if clinicians are a part of the same health care system.It turns out that studying clinical integration is...