Sentara Healthcare: A Case Study Series on Disruptive Innovation Within Integrated Health Systems

Examines how integration and ties with health plans, physicians, and hospitals helped protect against revenue volatility and enabled experimentation; factors that facilitate integration; innovative practices; lessons learned; and policy implications

"Mother-weights" and lost fathers: parents in South Asian American literature

That parent-child relationships should play a significant role within South Asian American literature is perhaps no surprise, since this is crucial material for any writer. But the particular forms they so often take – a dysfunctional mother-daughter dynamic, leading to the search for maternal surrogates; and the figure of the prematurely deceased father – are more perplexing. Why do families adhere to these patterns in so many South Asian American texts and what does that tell us about this œuvre? More precisely, why are mothers subjected to a harsher critique than fathers and what purpose does this critique serve? How might we interpret the trope of the untimely paternal death? In this article I will seek to answer these questions – arguably key to an understanding of this growing body of writing – by considering works produced between the 1990s and the early twenty-first century by a range of South Asian American writers

Lancaster General Health: A Case Study on Disruptive Innovations Within Integrated Health Systems

Analyzes considerations for a clinically integrated delivery system, including factors behind contracts with payers, standardization and improved outcomes, and opportunities to engage patients, as well as the role of community focus and mission alignment

HealthPartners: A Case Study on Disruptive Innovations Within Integrated Health Systems

Analyzes factors in integrating finance and care delivery systems, including how metrics and technology shape buy-in; how primary care and integration levels affect costs; how consumers set rates of innovation; and what disruptive practices are enabled