The House Ways and Means Committee hearing in late April signaled growing bipartisan frustration with a healthcare system that continues to produce rising costs without demonstrating better value, accountability or outcomes for employers, taxpayers and patient-consumers. Healthcare delivery organizations should treat this moment as an opportunity to redesign how they…
Well before Covid-19 came on the scene, telehealth had earned its stripes as a cost-effective care delivery and population health platform. Despite numerous benefits, telehealth’s potential was marginalized by the lobbying efforts of hospitals, medical associations, and specialists seeking to defend their turf and the lucrative nature of current fee-for-service…
A few short months after Google came under fire for not being forthright about Project Nightingale – its data-sharing partnership with Ascension – EHR vendor Epic Systems warned hospitals that it would halt further work with the company’s cloud-based system, aligning itself with the many individuals who felt the partnership…
Historically, the incentives built into fee-for-service (FFS) payment models actually encouraged providers to ignore social determinants of health (SDH) that impact health outcomes. For example, providers were financially rewarded when “frequent flyers” were readmitted, and it was easy to rationalize such factors as “out of scope”. Ignoring vulnerable populations’ socioeconomic…
As part of their growth strategy, more hospital executives are seeking to extend the geographic reach of their centers of excellence.To do this successfully, they’ll need to move beyond the hospital-centric focus of past expansion efforts. They’ll need to build an efficient, high-quality-care model that spans the continuum; the marketing…
