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...
The COVID-19 crisis has hit hospitals and other healthcare providers with an unprecedented “financial triple whammy” from which some may not recover. As the downturn has laid bare many of the industry’s most ineffective systems, it also presents a remarkable opportunity to embrace digital contactless innovations to survive now and thrive later.
Health Systems and Hospitals are facing a COVID-19 induced financial crisis. With skyrocketing costs and lost revenue for elective and routine treatments, providers of all kinds are facing an uncertain future. As healthcare leaders begin to plan for the post-COVID environment, patients - and the revenue they represent - must be a crucial...
Hospital financial performance is driven by three principal stakeholders; Medicare & Medicaid; Commercial Insurance, e.g. employer-sponsored health plans; and , increasingly, patients themselves. Last week, these stakeholders were joined by the federal government and the $100B allocated to the healthcare industry in the $2 Trillion Cares Act...