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Changes in health care regulations and technologies have placed additional pressures on health care systems not only to become more efficient and allocate resources effectively, but also to identify new sources of revenue. Many larger health care systems have developed best-in-class clinical services, created exciting technological innovations for their clinics, and consolidated common business operations into streamlined, expert-driven “shared services.” The savviest of them are viewing these in-house capabilities as new and untapped sources of income: By packaging and selling one or more of their niche services or innovations to other organizations, they can defray the cost of their internal investment and contribute to their system’s overall revenue.