Disruptors

Healthcare is about to be disrupted, and today's healthcare leaders are far from ready.  Healthcare organizations, though aware of and slowly preparing for significant change to business as usual, are more or less sitting ducks. Enter a true disruptor, and…

Healthcare providers know the industry is ripe for disruption, and despite efforts by many health systems to provide more convenient, patient-friendly care, many in the industry recognize disruptive innovation is more likely to come from outside the industry than from…

Healthcare reform, unsurprisingly, is requiring a shift in healthcare and hospital business models.

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The Physician Preference Item (PPI) market is loaded with excess that drives up costs.  In today’s changing healthcare economy, hospitals can no longer afford to do business the same old way. Implant Partners helps hospitals and surgeons by offering top quality,…

As a youth, I found the Loch Ness Monster fascinating. You would see grainy pictures of what looked like a head or part of its snakelike body breeching the surface of the water. This raised many forms of imaginative thoughts.

Healthcare providers are buying heavily into new care initiatives, like accountable care organizations, bundled payments and risk-sharing contracts, but according to a new article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, these may ultimately be repeating past flawed strategies.

The number of ambulatory surgery center operating rooms doubled from 2001 through 2011, raising some competitive challenges for hospitals, according to an infographic from Objective Health.

ASC Strategies, a company devoted to strategic leadership in the migration of surgery from hospitals to the outpatient setting, has changed its name to Avanza Healthcare Strategies, according to a company news release.

Most accountable care organizations, regardless of if they are formed by hospitals, health systems or physician groups, are primary-care based. After all, patients are generally attributed to ACOs based on their primary care provider.