Analysis: How traditional healthcare providers can compete with innovators and progressive incumbents
Providing high-quality and cost-efficient services is the first step traditional healthcare providers must take to stave off business disruption by new entrants and progressive incumbents into the market.
Analysis: Much ado about the Ascension/Google Project Nightingale
While the partnership should have been made public by Google and Ascension, this is the future of healthcare performance improvement.
Analysis: Hospital at home will move inpatient admissions into the home
Acute care providers must analyze the risks and opportunities of participating in the at-home-hospital model of patient care.
Financial investment in SDOH is not all it will take to help patients
It’s laudable that health systems are committing to funding social determinants of health efforts, but managing interventions for patients will require more deliberate integration, linking of efforts and data sharing.
Analysis: Haven’s first moves: Benign or disruptive?
The rollout of Haven insurance in 2020 for the 1.2 million combined employees of Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway should not be dismissed by other industry players.
Analysis: Private equity interest in orthopedics increases
Demographics and payment policy are the main drivers of the surge in private equity deals involving orthopedics practices in 2019.
Social determinants of health: Pushing the boundaries of healthcare
Addressing the social determinants of health is vital to improving health outcomes, but meaningful improvement requires new levels of collaboration.
Analysis: Investment income may not be enough for not-for-profit hospitals as federal reductions in payments continue
A review of why not-for-profit hospitals’ reliance on investment income may not be enough in the face of continued reductions in federal payments to hospitals over the next 10 years.
Analysis: Walmart’s Centers of Excellence program goes local
Walmart’s use of Embold Health to provide its employees with access to high-quality, cost-efficient providers has the potential for broader impact.
Analysis: Amazon acquires care navigator to integrate into virtual care solution
A review of how Amazon will monetize what it learns from managing populations now that they have own their own virtual care navigator.