HealthsystemCIO.com January 1, 2018
In just the past few weeks, we saw several major healthcare merger announcements: Dignity and CHI, Advocate and Aurora, Ascension and Providence St. Joseph Health on the provider side. And then there’s CVS Health and Aetna — a potential disruptor in the healthcare market. And we don’t yet know what other market disruptors like Amazon or Google might do in the healthcare space.
There have been predictions in recent years that eventually there would be just 10-15 major healthcare systems in the United States. Are we on our way to that prediction with the latest merger announcements? The combined Advocate and Aurora system would create a 27-hospital healthcare system in Wisconsin and Illinois with projected annual revenue of $11 billion....
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