Strategic outsourcing of clinical services: a model for volume-stressed academic medical centers.

Many academic medical centers have significant capacity constraints and limited ability to expand services to meet demand. Health care management should employ strategic thinking to deal with service demands. This article uses three organizational models to develop a theoretical framework to guide the selection of clinical services for outsourcing.

Billi JE ，Pai CW ，Spahlinger DA 《HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT REVIEW》

Clinical service-line structures can better carry out the missions of traditional clinical departments.

Wenzel RP ，Kontos HA 《ACADEMIC MEDICINE》

The hospital as airport: a new model for health care.

Press C 《-》

Strategic planning for departmental divisions in an academic health care center.

Becker BN ，Formisano RA 《-》

Strategic responses of academic medical centers to the growth in ambulatory care.

Alan M. Zuckerman, M.A., FAAHC, executive vice president of Chi Systems Inc., examines how academic medical centers are faring as ambulatory care becomes an increasing reality in this country. He presents geographic and integration strategies for these centers to maintain an economic edge as their markets shrink.

Zuckerman AM 《-》