Includes bibliographical references and index.

Integrated health care delivery models on an era of reform -- Information systems -- Managing access to the health care system -- Behavioral economics and the challenges of managing an integrated health care system -- Financial information, financial environments, financial viability, and the decision-making process -- Legal landscape : challenges and opportunities -- Managing human capital -- The role of leadership in health care sustainability -- The journey from quality to value -- Policy -- The ethics of health care reform : coordinating rights with commoditization -- Health care in rural America -- The challenge of integrative medicine in health care systems -- Population health.