Think Tank

Healthcare executives have had more sleepless than restful nights in recent times. Combined underpayments from Medicare and Medicaid to hospitals continue to increase. Healthcare continues to see an increase in providing uncompensated care. Diagnostic errors are increasing, and likely causing more harm to patients than all other medical errors combined, with the most common among them missing early cancer and heart disease. During covid, double shifts, and staffing concerns destroyed staffing models and budgets…..increasing numbers of physicians and care givers are reporting they are burned out, and looking at alternative career options. What’s the light at the end of the tunnel, what are the strategies and technologies that are showing a favorable ROI?

Best practices for revenue cycle improvement have focused on: careful implementation of workflow automation; collection and successful use of patient preference data; more timely collection of payments; and revision of the reporting and tracking systems. Let’s look at some of the more successful examples of revenue cycle improvement.

Should hospitals reconsider how and where they deliver care to patients? Some are seeing the hospital-at-home model as a promising approach to improve value. What is the ROI on hospital-at-home is the ROI there for patients who need acute-level care to receive care in their homes, rather than in a hospital. Does this care delivery model reduce costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience?

Digital transformation impacts every aspect of care delivery, from the administrative centers, to the hospital campuses and primary care clinics where patients are seen. As new capabilities are added, some services must migrate to a cloud-first or hybrid cloud model based on business requirements. Ensuring uptime, availability and fidelity of patient and provider experience becomes increasingly more difficult in such a dynamic environment. Learn how Full-Stack Observability to ease the burden and dymistify your applications and technology stack, whether on-prem, in the cloud, or both

Protecting the healthcare enterprise from cyber challenges is becoming increasingly difficult.  One of the most valuable yet vulnerable resources the enterprise has is patient data.  How can we leverage available security solutions for maximum results. What are the benchmarks we might compare to your own. 

Healthcare leaders have to successfully manage multiple generations and a multi-cultural team. The must thin differently. Challenge each other to see past generational stereotypes and recognize everyone’s seat at the table. Plan differently, Find opportunities to personalize the employee experience in staffing plans and professional development strategies.