Welcome  to  Public  health  moment from  the  University  of  Minnesota. What  impact  will  health  reform  have  on  health  providers, hospitals,  clinics,  and  physicians? We  ask  Dan  Imar, an  Associate  Professor  of Healthcare  Administration  at  the  University  of  Minnesota. Reform  is  likely  to  create much  more  consolidation  on  the  healthcare  provider  side. That  consolidation  is  going  to  lead  to  more  complex, larger  integrated  health  systems. The  reform  measures  are  going  to  pressure  healthcare, macro  and  micro  economics  and  that's  going  to  lead  to a  restructuring  and  consolidation  of  the  provider  side, believes  that  this  consolidation  will  result  in better  patient  care  and  less  waste  and  duplication. Some  physicians,  perhaps  those  that  are  a  little  older, are  going  to  lament  the  fact  that  private practice  as  they  know it  is  going  to  wane  in  the  marketplace. But  I  think  what  emerges  is a  much  more  effective  delivery  system for  patients  overall. Those  that  will  be  undergirded by  an  electronic  health  record, they  will  be  subject  to best  clinical  and  managerial  practices. And  there  will  be  much  more  transparency about  quality  and  effectiveness. Much  less  duplication  and unnecessary  redundancy  and  waste  in  the  system. For  John  Finnegan  and  public  health  moment, I'm  Mark  Anger  Breton.