Preparing the Healthcare Workforce for Value
Healthcare leaders are taking various steps to ensure their workforces evolve to meet the demands of value-based care, but long-term solutions require collaboration across the spectrum of care.
Care in Place: Bringing Care Back to the Future
Atrius Health leaders describe a new home care program that keeps patients out of the hospital through the provision of coordinated care.
New Models Redefine Primary Care
CPC+ is among the advanced primary care initiatives that encourage providers to enhance their approach to health care in a way that boosts quality and patient engagement.
A Strategy to Reduce Costly COPD Readmission Penalties
Teaching patients to manage COPD as a chronic disease—rather than an acute condition—can help reduce costly hospitalizations from flare-ups.
NYU Langone Medical Center Achieves Cost Reductions Through Rehab Fine Tuning
Early mobilization and other strategies cut length of stay, acute rehab utilization, and post-acute costs. The medical center’s ICU project alone yields $1.5 million in savings.
How DCH Health System Tackled Clinical Variation to Reduce Costs
By engaging clinicians in efforts to reduce clinical variation, one regional health system has transformed the way finance leaders and physicians work together.
Financial-Clinical Integration in 2017
Advisory Board’s John Johnston discusses the significant margin implications of care redesign initiatives—and the importance of financial and clinical teams working in tandem.
Alternative Payment Model Initiatives at Banner Health
Banner Health participates in a variety of alternative payment models, including the Comprehensive Primary Care initiative, Oncology Care Model, bundled payments, and more.
Patient Engagement: Establishing Patients as Partners in Care
Dorothy Fisher, MD, writes that successfully engaging patients requires thinking like them and offering robust resources and service choices.
Consumer Engagement in the Wake of the Election
At a time of potential turmoil in health care, organization leaders must be more mindful than ever of the need to earn consumers’ trust.