Population Health Management or PHM is now described as the solution to many of the challenges facing the healthcare industry. Payers and providers are generally somewhere between deciding if and how it applies to them and full blown implementation. Industry vendors are designing or retrofitting their solutions and services to make it all “work”. As
Healthcare industry payers are now moving aggressively toward value based care and reimbursement models with their provider networks. Payers of all types – employers, commercial insurers, government or individuals – can’t indefinitely sustain cost trends higher than overall economic growth. Healthcare services are simply becoming too expensive for consumers, employers, and taxpayers. Further, at some
The healthcare industry transition to value based care & reimbursement (VBC/R) is disrupting traditional business and care models. Both payers and providers are challenged to re-imagine and re-engineer their business and revenue models, organizational structures, clinical and administrative operations, and supporting clinical and information technology infrastructures. The critical starting point for most VBC/R transition planning
Industry transition to value-based care & reimbursement (VBC/R) is happening. In fact, it’s happening faster than many comfortably predicted just 24 months ago. But in our work helping providers and payers plan and begin implementing various VBC/R strategies over the last 18 months, we have encountered a significant amount of confusion and misunderstanding around some
Technology, globalization and continual economic pressures are taking our world by storm. Every industry is having to evolve at breakneck speeds to keep up with the new demands and expectations of consumers. The following top 10 healthcare trends will completely transform the industry – within the next few years. 1. Intelligent Rx Intelligent Rx refers
Driven by steady cost increases combined with various aspects of public policy, the healthcare industry is once again in a state of increasing instability as the revolutionary transition from activity-based to value-based care gets underway in earnest. Concurrently individual consumers are being more directly exposed to the cost of their healthcare in an effort to