Managing a network: Where healthcare meets Moneyball

10/23/17 • 19 min

Building a clinically integrated network is like building a baseball team: It takes utility players, specialists, and some data-driven magic. Julie Bietsch, RN, vice president of population health at Dignity Health, shares her strategies for building a network and reducing out-of-network migration, or “leakage” – plus the technological tools that can make the process easier.

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