The line item that touches everything: Transportation’s role in patient flow, access and margins

Thursday, December 17
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
  • Jerrit Tan

    Presenter

    Jerrit Tan

    Head of Health Systems

    Uber Health

Health systems often treat transportation as a line-item expense. Its impact reaches much further.

Transportation gaps can contribute to delayed discharges, missed appointments, staff time spent coordinating rides and lost revenue. Because those effects show up across different parts of the organization, the full cost can be easy to miss.

This webinar explores how health systems can take a more strategic approach to transportation, from improving patient flow and access to measuring operational and financial impact and making a stronger case for investment.

Learning include:

  • How transportation can support patient throughput and capacity
  • Ways to account for the impact of transportation on staff time, delays, missed revenue and value-based care
  • Strategies for connecting transportation metrics to clinical and financial outcomes
  • Approaches to aligning ownership and funding across departments and building executive buy-in