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In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Vince Galloro talks with John Deane, CEO of Southwind, a physician practice management consultancy. Deane discusses the reasons that physicians and hospitals are seeking deeper relationships with each other, how these relationships might enable them to deliver higher-quality care at lower cost and why this wave of alignment will turn out differently than the practice acquisitions hospitals made in the mid-1990s.

Read the accompanying Special Feature, "A new practice routine," published in the March 1, 2010, issue of Modern Healthcare.

A transcript of the podcast is available here.