Healthcare consultants question whether health systems have the data analytics skills necessary to lower the cost of care and improve outcomes through direct contracts with large employers.
Category: Modern Healthcare
CHI-Dignity merger approval may hinge on Catholic religious rules for care
The central role of Catholic religious rules in the CHI-Dignity merger highlights the challenges healthcare organizations face as they increasingly partner to gain scale and survive in the tough new healthcare landscape.
Female leaders aim to reshape healthcare, despite the C-suite’s gender gap
Female executives are being urged to take charge in creating a healthcare system that keeps people healthy by looking beyond clinical processes to social determinants.
A waiting game: Meeting minutes reveal challenges to closing CHI, Dignity megadeal
The respective governing boards at Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives have encountered multiple setbacks in their quest to merge the two organizations since formal negotiations began in 2016, and there are few indications that they will…
As healthcare changes, systems need to broaden search to find disruptive CEOs
Healthcare’s new operating environment will require openness to change, willingness to listen to customers and front-line staff, and courage to radically redesign systems to improve quality and cut costs.
Editorial: As the midterm elections approach, politicians ignore healthcare
Healthcare is one-fifth of the nation’s economy and a job creator, adding 16,700 positions in July, on top of the 25,200 added in June. So it is a bit of a head scratcher as to why industry executives weren’t part of the conversation.
If a tool offers cost data on tests, will doctors pay attention?
Giving providers cost and risk information at the point of care might lead to fewer unnecessary tests and lower costs.
$42M medical center planned near Foxconn complex
Ascension Wisconsin said its plan includes primary and specialty care at the center, along with an imaging center, urgent-care services, rehabilitation, occupational health and an ambulatory-surgery center. The organization also plans to hire 100…
Proposed reimbursement changes would dent hospital margins
While proposed changes to site-neutral pay, 340B and ambulatory surgery center reimbursement would not alone significantly hit the hospital sector’s overall credit quality, it would add to ongoing pressures, according to Moody’s Investors Service.
University of Pennsylvania Health System eliminating sugary drinks in facilities
University of Pennsylvania Health System recently announced it will phase out drinks with added sugar. The hospital system said in a statement the changes were part of an effort to help people dealing with heart disease, diabetes and other illnesses.
