The healthcare marketplace was in the midst of change before the pandemic, but COVID-19 radically shortened the timetable. Health systems and hospitals planning for their recoveries must now consider how their patients would prefer to do business from now on – and it definitely isn’t business as usual.
Experts have been predicting for years that consumerism - the active, informed exercise of patient choice - would be the remedy to healthcare’s high costs and widespread inefficiencies. Historically, patients have lacked the tools and information needed to fulfill their roles in the provider-payer-patient transaction, but big changes caused by...
Despite billions in federal stimulus payouts, 2020 operating losses at America’s hospitals are projected to be between negative one percent and negative eleven percent because of financial disruption caused by the COVID-19 crisis. Fortunately, the key to healthcare’s recovery can be found in pandemic-stimulated, consumer-centered innovation...
The resounding success of telehealth in the American Healthcare industry’s response to the COVID-19 crisis is a clear indication of growing consumer preference for safer, more convenient and more affordable access to healthcare. As healthcare finally pivots into its own digital age, it must be sure to include every dimension of the patient care...
As the American healthcare industry moves into the next tenuous phase of the COVID-19 crisis, it must find an equilibrium between two menacing threats - resurgent COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations and the suffering caused by the economic shutdown. Clinicians are planning for “disease suppression.” - but for healthcare providers,...
The COVID-19 crisis has had a devastating impact on healthcare providers’ financial performance. But the same kinds of digital innovations that helped drive the industry’s inspiring response to the public health crisis will fuel its financial recovery, setting the stage for better patient experiences and improved operating performance.
Healthcare’s many impressive adaptations to the pandemic crisis will leave a lasting legacy for a transformed industry. By emulating world class customer self-service operating models, hospitals and other providers have opened the door to critical cost saving opportunities and the retention and growth of patient relationships.
Industry experts agree that the energy, creativity and collaboration that drove healthcare’s rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic will also fuel the industry’s recovery. Leveraging technology to meet the new demands of a financially stressed patient population, health systems and hospitals have the opportunity to improve their operating...
Pummeled by unprecedented demand, unplanned expenses and a devastating disruption in ordinary business and revenue, hospitals and other healthcare providers are plotting a course toward the industry’s post-COVID-19 reality. To thrive in the “new normal”, providers will lean on technology to optimize care, support patients and their families and...