COVID-19 and the upcoming election have kept healthcare access and affordability at the center of the national debate for providers, payers (insurers), regulators and Congress. With all this pressure, 2021 may be the year for healthcare’s long-called-for transformation to a more patient centric operating model.
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.
However it is labeled - virtual Health, telehealth or digital care delivery - the ability for millions of Americans to get the care they needed while observing stay-at-home orders and protecting themselves from exposure has been a game changer for every healthcare system stakeholder during the COVID-19 crisis. Out of urgency, Telehealth has...
In their response to the novel coronavirus, healthcare providers in the United States quickly pivoted to alternative care delivery systems better suited to the extraordinary new needs of healthcare consumers. Forward-looking projections from multiple healthcare industry experts suggest that healthcare’s COVID-19 adaptations are just the...
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 COVID-19 pandemic has caused historic financial disruption for healthcare providers and healthcare consumers, causing consumers and their legislative representatives to demand better transparency - now. As providers struggle to deal with multiple public health and operational crises of their own, a better approach to transparency promises...
Before the COVID-19 public health and economic crises, the healthcare industry had been slow to respond to changing expectations of the healthcare consumer, opening the door to disruptive new providers with more efficient, patient-friendly operating models. Digital innovation stimulated by the crisis will fuel healthcare’s recovery and...
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,...
