The Stony Brook Medicine Clinically Integrated Network (CIN) is a physician-led, professionally managed care delivery system that combines the latest in evidence-based best practices with investments in state-of-the-art analytics.
The overarching goal of clinical integration is to improve patient care and satisfaction by creating a high degree of interdependence and cooperation among healthcare providers to control costs and to demonstrate quality improvement by aligning incentives with outcomes, quality and efficiency. Initial membership includes the 1,500 full time faculty and employed physicians of Stony Brook Medicine. Physicians actively participate in the CIN by serving on committees and by helping to define clinical and quality benchmarks.
The three main aspects of Stony Brook Medicine's CIN include Ambulatory Quality, Practice Transformation and Care Management. As the CIN matures, it will add independent providers in the community to create a network of high-performing physicians and practices.
Additionally, Stony Brook Medicine is part of an Accountable Care Organization as part of our larger clinical integration strategy. ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers who come together voluntarily to give coordinated, high-quality care to their Medicare patients. The goal of coordinated care is to ensure that patients, especially the chronically ill, get the right care at the right time, while avoiding unnecessary, duplicative services and preventing medical errors. The Stony Brook ACO, LLC, began on January 1, 2020.