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- Are hospitals becoming less relevant as care shifts to digital, specialized services like urgent and ambulatory care?
- Is it essential to integrate care delivery systems, or can standardized care with good information systems suffice?
- Could applying Lean methodology to the entire healthcare delivery process improve efficiency and outcomes beyond just individual departments?
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Is it time to reduce hospitals and replace them with digitally enabled distributed specialty service delivery channels that focus on ambulatory care, urgent care, and patient reactivation? Is delivery system integration immaterial if care is standardized and supported by integrated information systems? Maybe Lean methodology needs to be applied across the entire delivery systems, not just within its component functions and processes. Comments are offered on each of these perspectives.
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