By: Amanda Price Digital healthcare development continues to be critical across efforts to create more streamlined and cost-effective drug-development processes. In 2014, digital health investments totaled about $6.5 billion,... read more →
The development of the Diagnostic Related Group in the 80s, efforts to integrate hospitals, physicians, and managed care in the 90s, and early steps in outcomes-based reimbursement in the first... read more →
A new healthcare framework—the Quadruple Aim—seeks to transform the U.S. healthcare system, improving health outcomes, enhancing the patient experience and lowering per capita healthcare costs. Key Points: More than a... read more →
In an effort to reduce healthcare costs while improving the quality of care, healthcare stakeholders—including solo practices and even payers—are becoming increasingly integrated, giving rise to the organized customer. Key... read more →
By Katie Tsui The movement away from fee-for-service has brought to life a range of new healthcare delivery models, each with varying degrees of risk sharing, that support the implementation... read more →
The Traditional Model In the traditional care delivery model, health systems have billed or reimbursed for each service or treatment provided rather than for an overall health outcome. In this... read more →
By Shane Devereux The healthcare environment is seeing a rise in market consolidation in both hospital and payer spheres. The number of planned hospital and health system mergers in 2017... read more →
By Harshini Reddy Parvatha Given the numerous changes practices are navigating to succeed in the world of value-based care, running a high performance primary care practice with low costs is... read more →
St. Louis-based SSM Health finalized a merger with Dean Health Systems in 2013. The partnership arose in respect to the changing healthcare landscape that saw both practices calling for a... read more →
The Kinetix Group (TKG), a leading life science marketing agency and health system and payer consultancy, partnered with the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) to build the “Best Practices in... read more →