HS450Unit5AssignmentDec4.docx Accountable Care Organizations & Physician Joint Ventures

HS450Unit5AssignmentDec4.docx  Accountable Care Organizations & Physician Joint Ventures  Purdue Global University   Accountable Care Organizations & Physician Joint Ventures  Physician- hospital integration is one of the most challenging issues the U.S. healthcare systems face today. Physicians and hospitals must find a way to make this collaboration possible while still maintaining their own economic interest and putting the welfare of the patients first. There are some viable solutions, accountable care organizations, foundations, hospital owned practices and joint ventures make this possible. Choosing one of these models gives the physicians the ability to focused more on their patients and less on administrative tasks, while giving them better technological tools to work with. Patients see benefits from integrated physician models as well, patient information is located on shared system making EHRs easily assessable by the physician and hospital.   The integrated physician model is best described as a group of physicians and hospitals coming together to form a partnership to help aid in the improvement of quality patient care.  (Harrison, 2016). The purpose of these models is to have doctors and administrative staff collaborate on many different levels to achieve a common goal. Since the 1990s hospital-physician alignment has been discussed and many healthcare facilities have incorporated some type of integrated model. An example of what a physician integrated model would look like, you have the prim