11 Best Practices of a Successful Care Model Transformation Plan
by Moha Desai, Principal, Healthcare Strategy & Transformation
Moha Desai, Principal, Healthcare Strategy & Transformation
Health systems across the country will require a plan to react to government deep spending cuts and revenue shortfalls due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospital services have seen a significant downturn in demand in 2020, and the recent resurgence in cases has led to further decreases. The public health emergency has also resulted in innovation, most notably telehealth, which has been granted temporary pay parity during the pandemic.
Still, hospitals and health systems face a year of losses, but COVID-19 consequences like enhanced communication and flexible decision-making make now the time to adopt a cost-reduction care delivery model. I propose a widespread overhaul of all aspects of the care model to achieve system-wide cost-reduction. This should include using data analytics and feedback to e
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The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021.
The groups, which also include
Healthcare IT News parent company HIMSS, noted that the COVID-19 public health emergency has ushered in an unprecedented expansion to telehealth.
At the same time, however, providers and patients face continued uncertainty about the future of virtual care – made even more tenuous by legislators failure, thus far, to enact permanent changes to telemedicine policies. The continued risk of telehealth flexibilities ending with each subsequent 90-day renewal of the PHE adds additional uncertainty to an already strained health care delivery system. Patients and their health care professionals should not have to worry if they will be able to continue to receive or deliver necessary care, read the letter.