The health care market will transform itself

• Integrated delivery networks are enhancing the patient experience to drive increasing market share.
• The Internet is transforming innovative individuals into self-empowered care providers.
• The integration of the EMR with financial, scheduling, and managed care systems provides information necessary to reduce incidence and severity of illness. Patient admissions are already 50% less in physician owned IDNs compared with traditional fee-for-service arrangements.
• It is possible to decrease patient visits and admissions by another 50% through improving patient treatment and health status. Margins will be significantly enhanced (providers will become more profitable).
• Patients will migrate to networks that improve their patient experience and demonstrate radically reduced disease rates and enhanced longevity.

Migration is accelerated by multiple forces

• Capitation forces service providers to become competitive with other industries.
• The electronic medical record will dramatically improve the patient experience.
• The integration of the EMR with financial, scheduling, and managed care systems will provide the information necessary to reduce incidence and severity of illness.
• Enhanced profitability and internet technologies will allow innovative service providers to develop "customer intimate" strategies that capture marketshare.