1. On page 114 of the text, Belasen discusses “merger mania” and the recent trend of health care providers to merge and consolidate. In no more than 3 pages, discuss the positive and negative impacts of mergers on organizational reliability. You can use the 4 E pneumonic: Empowerment, Ecosystem, Effectiveness, and Efficiency to organize your response. 2. The text lists the following as factors as barriers to higher-quality healthcare:
○Fee-for-service
○Silo mentality
○Lack of teamwork
○Cross-subsidies in reimbursement
○Outcomes and cost-effectiveness data
In no more than one paragraph each explain why the factor is a barrier to higher quality care and what steps you would take as a healthcare leader to address that factor’s impact on quality of care.