Navigating the Current Downcycle in Healthcare

Asvalue-based careprograms evolve, Episodes of Care (EOC) payments are shifting from retrospective to prospective payments. Hear Unified Women’s Healthcare Chief Medical Executive Officer Jack Feltz, MD, Florida Blue Director of Value Based Specialty Programs Jennifer McGrath, and BCollaborative CEO Lili Brillstein explain how to scale these programs with maximum success and minimum maintenance.

Bringing together representatives from the rapid evaluation community, including analysts, users and commissioners, the conference looked beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, thinking about the role of evaluation in the NHS recovery towards building a sustainable health care service. It also provided an opportunity to share lessons learnt from recent and on-going evaluations.

IoT has transformed healthcare in a significant way and is a game-changer for providers who embrace next-generation technology. Technologies that track patient data, improve healthcare operations, and provide remote and mobile patient monitoring help reduce costs and improve delivery of patient care. The variety and novelty of these devices introduces a range of cybersecurity concerns related to the Confidentiality-Integrity and Availability (CIA) triad that underpins HIPAA compliance, patient data protection, and overall information security. There are steps you can take, both before your medical devices get hacked and after it happens. Learn how to detect intruders and expel them quickly so that you can maintain your security posture and quality of patient care.

To deal with the current staffing crisis, health systems feel forced to rely on costly external staffing agencies, which is killing hospital and health system operating margins.