Larry McClain

In a Sept. 7 panel discussion at Vanderbilt University hosted by the Association of Management Consulting Firms (AMCF), industry leaders concurred that the journey from fee-for-service to value-based medicine will not be for the faint of heart.

In a panel discussion co-sponsored by the Nashville Capital Network and Nashville Health Care Council on Aug. 9, investment gurus almost ran from the phrase "venture capital."

There are market forces keeping the healthcare mergers and acquisitions market active but not frenetic, according to analysts at a panel called “Financing The Deal” at the Nashville Health Care Council on May 15.

Although summer movies highlight the deeds of solo superheroes, attacking hospital supply costs is strictly a team effort. At the Premier Breakthroughs conference in Nashville on June 6, representatives from Methodist Health System in Dallas, Texas, chronicled their 18-month collaboration with Premier Consulting Solutions – a partnership that helped significantly reduce supply costs and keep them there.

David Rinehart, MD, a primary care physician at CaroMont Health Southpoint in Belmont, N.C., learned the importance of accountable care in just one patient visit. "I was seeing a 55-year-old patient who told me 'I'm doing much better now.' I was shocked to discover that he had recently been hospitalized for a perforated gastric ulcer, but we had no record of that - no fax from the hospital or anything. That's something that's just too important to not get communicated."

Most electronic health records require providers to concentrate on typing text into specific fields – and many physicians and nurses feel that it mars the patient experience. That’s why a number of companies are helping increase EHR adoption by providing easy-to-use alternatives to keyboard data entry.

It’s difficult for healthcare organizations to make informed decisions when the data they receive from state agencies is incomplete or slow to arrive.

Although summer movies highlight the deeds of solo superheroes, attacking hospital supply costs is strictly a team effort. At the Premier Breakthroughs conference in Nashville on June 6, representatives from Methodist Health System in Dallas, Texas, chronicled their 18-month collaboration with Premier Consulting Solutions -- a partnership that helped significantly reduce supply costs and keep them there.

There are market forces keeping the healthcare mergers and acquisitions market active but not frenetic, according to analysts at a panel called "Financing The Deal" at the Nashville Health Care Council on May 15.

Across the nation, healthcare organizations are discovering that collaborative care transcends the medical discipline. Patients often experience “upstream” legal problems that can later adversely affect their health. That’s why there’s a dramatic increase in the number of medical-legal partnerships (MLPs), where legal professionals work closely with providers to identify and resolve these issues.