Healthcare Real Estate Strategies That Enhance Value
Value-based care has altered healthcare delivery, leading to new real estate strategies that include building outpatient centers or micro-hospitals that are easier for patients to access.
Contracting With Physicians to Tackle Pervasive Challenges
Hospital efficiency improvement programs allow organizations to address quality and efficiency goals across service lines by providing all inpatient-focused specialties with financial rewards if they achieve specific outcomes.
Thinking About Robotization: It’s More than Efficiency and Costs Savings
Healthcare leaders should consider the impact of robotics implementations on various stakeholders by using a risk and reward analysis.
$28M in Healthcare Costs Associated with Opioid Epidemic
Health care accounts for about one-third of the total $78.5 billion costs attributable to the prescription opioid epidemic.
Video: Healthcare Trends and Technology
Julie Williamson, PhD, chief growth enabler for Karrikins Group, talks about healthcare trends and technology, as well as the changing roles of women and men in health care.
Skyrocketing Prescription Drug Crisis: Action Needed
Legislative action by Congress is needed to address the problem facing the U.S. healthcare system from cost pressures caused by rising prescription drugs prices.
The Price is Not Right: The Unsustainability of the ACA Insurance Marketplaces
As legislators continue to work toward a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, insurers are leaving the marketplaces.
Availability of Dental Insurance Can Reduce Hospital Costs
Average patient hospital costs rose by 20 percent for Medicaid patients after their dental coverage was trimmed to cover only emergency care.
Bundled Payments for Hospitals: Lessons in Collaboration
Donald E. Fry, MD, examines the benefits of bundled payment programs.
Fishing Lessons
Providers may object when value-based savings accrue to health plans. Although those objections have merit, other factors should be considered when formulating strategy.