News release: “Health reform will require hospitals and physicians to engage in more intense levels of collaboration and information sharing. However, PwC surveys found both groups have issues to overcome with each other. For example, one in five physicians doesn’t trust hospitals, and six in 10 hospitals think it will be difficult to get health information from community physicians to provide more effective, efficient care. To help hospitals and physicians overcome barriers to working together, PwC’s Health Research Institute has released two reports. From Courtship to Marriage is the first of a two-part PwC report that explores why health reform is driving hospitals and physicians closer together, and what they need to form a more perfect union. In Designing the health IT backbone for ACOs, PwC explores the collaboration of hospitals and physicians within accountable care organizations and their need for technology infrastructure to better share information.”