In the News: January 11–18
By Emily WongThis week: community partnerships, Medicaid work requirements and Maryland’s All-Payer Hospital Model extended
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This week: community partnerships, Medicaid work requirements and Maryland’s All-Payer Hospital Model extended
Among the key issues facing hospitals today is how to expand access and increase engagement with patients across the System of CARE. In an era of tight investment and increased...
Sg2 is dedicated to helping our clients interpret the latest news and trends in health care. Below you’ll find our analysis of this week’s key industry headlines, along with links...
Sg2 is dedicated to helping our clients interpret the latest news and trends in health care. Below you’ll find our analysis of this week’s key industry headlines, along with links...
Sg2 is dedicated to helping our clients interpret the latest news and trends in health care. Below you’ll find our analysis of this week’s key industry headlines, along with links...
At the Sg2 AMC Summit 2016, Sg2 and cohosts BJC HealthCare and St Louis Children’s Hospital welcomed 75 attendees, representing 30 organizations from across the US, to discuss the implications...
For too long, health systems have exploited only a fraction of the potential value available through economies of scale. Scale historically has amounted strictly to the financial levers of reduced...
Primal forces are driving action in local health care markets and forcing health systems to prove their value and relevance to consumers, payers, employers and other stakeholders. Last month’s Sg2...
To succeed today, health care systems must prove their market relevance. Historically, this pressure has been less intense for children’s hospitals, faced with fewer governmental requirements, such as readmission penalties...
Two intertwined Big Ideas—the Affordable Care Act and the shift from volume to value—have driven much of the conversation in health care over the past 5 years. To be sure,...
Rumors and announcements of health plan mergers and acquisitions have only accelerated discussions among health system executives about how much more provider consolidation is likely to occur over the next...
It has been more than 50 years since the first annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) national convention. In April 2015, more than 38,000 health IT professionals and...
A hot topic in orthopedics over the past few years has been the shift of hip and knee replacement surgeries to the outpatient setting. The heat was turned up a...
Alignment with generalist obstetricians and gynecologists (ob/gyns) has traditionally been relegated to the back burner. There are two reasons for this. First, in the fee-for-service environment, OB has little or...
Not only is the hospital clinical team charged with providing the best inpatient care, but they also must constantly ask themselves: “What level of care is needed for my patient...
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