Transforming the Patient-Provider Experience
90% of Americans use the Internet, but only 25% use the patient portals offered by most hospitals. This digital disconnect impacts patient experiences and provider performance, but there is good news for providers who act to deliver rewarding online experiences.
Surprise medical bills are red-hot for regulators and legislators, even the president. Despite the challenges of finding a solution, there’s some good news for providers and their patients.
Surprise medical bills have been a big problem for patients and consumers. The government is about to turn it into a problem for healthcare providers…now what?
The trend of patient consumerism has gained a lot of steam in recent months, bolstered by administration policy proposals to force providers into more patient-friendly behavior. Successful providers must find the will to take the future into their own hands.
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Recently proposed new rules from two agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are welcome signs of the healthcare industry’s inevitable inclusion with the rest of the consumer-driven U.S. economy. HHS’s rules represent a start, but patients are expecting much more.
Patients are setting the bar higher than ever. They are demanding not only more transparency into hospitals’ clinical performance, but also greater convenience in all aspects of how they plan and pay for care. The shift to patient-driven revenue streams has introduced many new challenges for providers—but it has also created opportunities for...
Improving the financial dimension of the patient experience wasn’t a lifelong goal for me, and I didn’t start as a result of one single event. In fact, it was something of an accident that I took my career in this direction. But after I found myself on this path, I realized it was a goal to which I would be proud to commit my life. Here’s how...
The increase in patients’ individual financial responsibility poses a serious challenge to hospitals’ billing and collections practices, because institutional payers and individual patients behave in very different ways. Insurance companies and government payers require a lot of data in a structured, standardized process. Patients are much more...
Ronald Heifetz of the Harvard Kennedy School has argued that organizations experience two main types of change: technical and adaptive.
Doing things yourself has always been part of the American way of life. Now, self-service options are more in demand than ever. From gas pumps to grocery store checkouts, virtually every consumer-facing business that has the opportunity to provide self-service is doing so. Healthcare providers cannot afford to ignore this trend, especially as...
