Patient Engagement
Transparency mandates make it tricky for health systems, as a procedure’s cost and what patients pay is very different.
If people choose not to have important preventive care and end up needing an expensive hospital stay years later as a result, everybody is worse off.
The consumer demand for price transparency is growing as patients pay more out-of-pocket expenses as deductibles rise.
The infusion pump market will grow to $3.6 billion by 2017 with the majority of growth occurring in home health, wearable insulin pumps, and consumables.
Providence Health in the northwest and Novant Health in the southeast are pushing population health, high technology and other options that are creating value and improving care.
Strategic growth through consolidation, optimizing care by finding ways to become more efficient providers make experts' list of healthcare issues to watch in 2015.
Fee-for-service billing still dictates how these platforms work, HIMSS Analytics VP says.
Walgreens said it is cutting ties with two accountable care organizations, though the nation's largest pharmacy chain has also launched a new partnership on the West Coast to help manage ACO patients.
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A major limitation of current supply chains is that they are not tied to outcomes. Most hospitals and health systems still lack a key ingredient that could turn their supply chain operations into powerful tools for better care.