Backward integration strengthens a company's supply chain by acquiring suppliers. Learn its benefits, challenges, and examples for efficient business growth.

At the Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 17, Peggy Naas, MD, MBA, vice president of physician strategies at VHA, and Lani Berman, MBA, vice president of performance services at ...

There is a “growing consensus” that tighter clinical integration of hospitals and physicians is necessary, but there are different kinds of integration and the approach faces legal barriers, according ...

A vertically integrated business refers to a business that has expanded into different steps along production, manufacturing, and supply. In other words, a vertically integrated business controls some ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. In recognition of this potential, the Health Resources and Services Administration ...

Separate has never been equal. By Thomas B. Edsall Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality. The revival of the argument over school busing ...