Is the Future of Value-Based Payment at Risk?
By Dr. Susan Turney, Chief Executive Officer, Marshfield Clinic Health SystemThe U.S. healthcare economy is beginning an incredible transformation. If it continues at the current pace, in a few years from now we may hardly recognize the way healthcare is measured, billed and paid. Incentives will be better aligned, costs will be lower and care […]
Opinion: Quality Stars and Payments Ought to be Earned
Ceci Connolly Originally posted on the Morning Consult. The federal government rates Medicare Advantage plans using a star system that evaluates clinical quality, patient satisfaction and regulatory compliance. This star rating system is designed to help America’s seniors evaluate the quality of their healthcare options. And it has successfully incentivized health plans to coordinate care […]
Modern Healthcare Editorial: The case for women executives and a second shortlist for Bezos, Buffett and Dimon
Dr. Joanne Conroy and Fawn Lopez Originally posted on Modern Healthcare. Amazon, Berkshire-Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase created shock waves in January when they announced plans to launch their own healthcare company. On March 8, they generated even more buzz when news spread that a search was underway for a CEO to lead the joint […]
VISTA: The Future of Health Care Is In Hospital Delivery Sciences
Eleven years ago, I remember being a junior faculty member attending the first “Quality Fair” at the University of Chicago, and presenting my work among roughly 20 posters on how to measure quality for hospitalized older patients. While I am proud to say this poster actually won an award, I am also embarrassed to say […]
Why Healthcare Needs More Women Leaders
Recently, Modern Healthcare published its list of the 50 most influential physician executives and leaders. The list included only seven women. There were seven in 2016, nine in 2015, and eight in 2014. Women comprise less than 10 percent of that list. As you will see, the math does not add up. Women make up […]
The Value Dilemma
The oft-used phrase, “from volume to value,” was coined here in Pittsburgh by our own Harold Miller as the title of a framing paper for our first of three Payment Reform summits. It clearly had resonance. I hear it in every venue where health reform advocates gather. “Value” is hot, and the Centers for Medicare […]
Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions: A Promising New Environment for Medical Research?
The changing health care landscape, accelerated by the Affordable Care Act, has signaled a move of the federal government, as well as private insurers, from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursements. To ramp up for this change, academic health centers are creating larger, integrated care delivery systems through mergers and acquisitions of hospitals, physician practices, and potentially […]
Precision Medicine and the Women of Impact
At President Obama’s announcement of the Precision Medicine initiative in January, among fewer than 100 invited guests were two charter members of Women of Impact: Sharon Terry, president and CEO of Genetic Alliance, and Ann Bonham, chief scientific officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges. There is much in common between the goals of the initiative […]
Cleaning the Graffiti in Health Care
I just left the most unusual conference I have ever attended. First, it was small – 25 people. Second, it was all women. Third, it was all senior healthcare leaders who have done amazing things…make that trail-blazing things. Moreover, I found myself surrounded by women who were journalists at major news outlets, retired military officers […]