Engebretson, MarkDan Zismer2023-10-192023-10-192010-05-21https://hdl.handle.net/11299/257692Runtime 1:30 minutesThis resource is provided for informational purposes only and may not reflect current scientific knowledge or medical recommendations.Welcome to Public Health Moment from the University of Minnesota. What impact will health reform have on health providers – hospitals, clinics, and physicians? We asked Dan Zismer, an associate professor of healthcare administration at the University of Minnesota. <Zismer: “Reform is likely to create much more consolidation on the health care provider side. That consolidation is going to lead to more complex, larger, integrated health systems. The reform measures are going to pressure health care macro and micro economics and that’s going to lead to a re-structuring and consolidation of the provider side.”> Zismer believes that this consolidation will result in better patient care and less waste and duplication. <Zismer: “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. [There will be] much less duplication and unnecessary redundancy and waste in the system.”> For John Finnegan and Public Health Moment, I’m Mark Engebretson.enAudio