Premier CEO predicts what future hospitals will look like

In the future, hospitals will be more than just a healing facility; they will become interconnected networks of providers delivering coordinated care across a continuum, according to a Wall Street Journal column.

The column was penned by Susan DeVore, president and CEO of healthcare performance improvement alliance Premier.

According to Ms. DeVore, hospitals will continue to grow and take on new roles, eventually becoming organizational and financial hubs that bring together primary care physicians, specialists, post-acute care and ancillary providers. These networks will be held accountable for managing outcomes and population costs, and they will be paid on a sliding scale based on their effectiveness.

Current trends that are driving the healthcare industry toward this version of the future, as outlined by Ms. DeVore, include:

  • The growing shift in provider payment
  • The rush to acquire or partner with other entities to form clinically integrated networks that can manage populations and handle advanced payment; and
  • A growing body of evidence suggesting that clinically integrated provider networks can be financially attractive to participants while improving quality and reducing spending

"By 2030, I'd expect nearly all of us will be treated by some form of a clinically integrated network with one or more state-of-the-art hospitals within that network, and our health will be better for it," wrote Ms. DeVore.

 

 

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