CHANGING DYNAMICS OF THE HEALTH CARE MARKET PLACE

医疗保健市场正在发生前所未有的变化 在组织和交付方面发生重大变化的国家 保健服务。 对于医疗保健的消费者和提供者来说， 变化尤其令人关切。 对医疗保健的影响 医疗中心的交付系统缩小规模，扩大市场控制 通过网络建设、医院兼并和创建医院 健康产业联盟还不清楚。 医疗保健是费城地区经济的主要特征。 它是大费城最大的单一就业来源 大都市区，占该地区经济的14%。 该地区 医学院校、教学医院、 生物技术产业和保健服务的其他部分 系统 费城地区的医疗保健行业正在实施一项 为了在不断变化的市场中保持竞争力， 市场：托马斯杰斐逊大学，宾夕法尼亚医院和主要 Line Health正在创建一个供应商联盟;阿勒格尼健康教育 和研究基金会（宾夕法尼亚医学院的所有者， 圣克里斯托弗的医院在费城）正在与哈内曼合并 大学医院和医学院;以及宾夕法尼亚大学 医疗中心正在发展一个全面的初级保健网络 广泛延伸到郊区 然而，最具戏剧性的是， 独立蓝十字（Independence Blue Cross）和（创新/进取） 研究生保健系统，以创造一个前所未有的垂直整合 一个提供保健服务的组织，将提供和资助摇篮 服务 并行的行业重组包括最近的收购 由当地制药巨头联合医疗保健公司的SmithKline Beecham 公司的药房福利服务部门为23亿美元，以及 柯达决定出售斯特林温斯洛普药品部门，位于 费城郊区。 为期一天的会议将汇集200多个政府 以及行业决策者、研究人员、学生、媒体、消费者和 其他有关各方审查和分析不断变化的动态 费城地区的医疗保健市场 它将试图 了解正在做什么和正在实施的战略， 当地学术健康中心，医院，保险和制药 公司，以及其他试图开拓利基市场的行业， 不断变化的医疗市场。 会议将着眼于 费城地区作为这些和其他变化的"实验室"， 分析这些综合变化对该地区的潜在影响 经济 会议将由宾夕法尼亚大学的 伦纳德戴维斯卫生经济研究所（LDI）。 LDI学者一直在 广泛参与医疗保健行业领导者和政府， 分析当地和全国医疗保健的变化。 分期 在这次会议上，LDI将利用其人才库的集体专业知识 学者以及来自政府，工业和 消费群体

Unprecedented changes are occurring in the health care marketplace across the country with significant changes in the organization and delivery of health care services. For consumers and providers of health care, these changes are of particular concern. The implications on the health care delivery system of medical centers downsizing, expansion of market control through network building, hospital mergers and the creation of hospital and health industry alliances is still not known. Health care is a dominant feature of the Philadelphia region's economy. It is the largest single source of employment in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area, comprising 14% of the region's economy. The area has an unusually high concentration of medical schools, teaching hospitals, biotechnology industry and other components of the health care delivery system. The Philadelphia area's health care industry is implementing a variety of strategies in order to remain competitive in the changing marketplace: Thomas Jefferson University, Pennsylvania Hospital and Main Line Health are creating a provider alliance; Allegheny Health Education and Research Foundation (owner of the Medical College of Pennsylvania and St. Christopher's Hospital in Philadelphia) is merging with Hahnemann University Hospital and Medical School; and the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center is developing a comprehensive primary care network extending broadly into the suburban areas. Most dramatic, however, is the proposed merger of Independence Blue Cross and (the innovative/aggressive) Graduate Health System to create an unprecedented vertically integrated organization for health-care delivery that will provide and finance cradle services. Parallel industry restructuring includes the recent acquisition by local pharmaceutical giant SmithKline Beecham of United HealthCare Corporation's pharmacy-benefit services unit for $2.3 billion, as well as the decision by Kodak to sell Sterling Winthrop drug unit, located in suburban Philadelphia. The proposed one-day conference will bring together over 200 government and industry decision makers, researchers, students, media, consumers and other interested parties to examine and analyze the changing dynamics of the Philadelphia region's health-care marketplace. It will attempt to understand what is being done and the strategies being implemented by local academic health centers, hospitals, insurance and pharmaceutical companies, as well as other industries attempting to carve out a niche in the changing healthcare market. The conference will look at the Philadelphia region as a "laboratory" for these and other changes and will analyze the potential impact of these combined changes on the region's economy. The conference will be coordinated by the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI). LDI scholars have been extensively involved with health care industry leaders and government in analyzing changes in healthcare, both locally and nationally. In staging this conference, LDI will draw upon the collective expertise of its pool of scholars as well as collaborators from among government, industry and consumer groups.