Healthcare Informatics January 23, 2018
Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is a large integrated health system operating 39 hospitals, with facilities predominantly in California, Arizona and Nevada. Dignity Health’s network of providers comprises about 1,400 physicians that are either employed by the health system or in its foundation practice models, and an additional 6,000 independent physicians that are aligned with the health system through eight regional clinically integrated networks.
In the past few years, Dignity Health executive leaders have made significant strides toward evolving the organization from a hospital to a care continuum company and a clinically driven enterprise, and physician integration and population health management both play critical roles in this journey. The health system also has increased its focus on new models...