This article discusses the University of Michigan Health System’s recent 2012 IMS ranking as one of the top 100 integrated healthcare networks which recognizes the best integrated health networks in the country. Researchers determine the rankings by compiling a system’s overall score measuring 33 attributes in eight differently weighted performance categories. Overall integration is the most heavily weighted. “As larger networks can boast a wider range of resources compared with their smaller peers, networks have to assume the role of Goldilocks,” says Alex Hunter, “when it comes to determining the proper scale, administrators and physicians alike have to work together to figure out what size is just right”.
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