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AI in Nursing | What the Headlines Got Wrong | Part 1 [Nurse Executives-Anne Herleth]
Anne Herleth, your Health System CXO podcast host, discusses the perspectives of frontline nurses regarding AI in healthcare. Anne highlights the misconceptions surrounding nurses' opposition to AI, presenting data that shows a more nuanced view. Anne also emphasizes the need for understanding and collaboration between nurses and AI to improve healthcare delivery.
Emerging Trends in Healthcare: The Rise of Disruptors [Strategy Executives - Jackie Kimmell]
Jackie Kimmell, your Health System CXO host discusses the emerging trend of cost transparency in healthcare, focusing on the rise of companies like Surest that offer innovative insurance models aimed at reducing out-of-pocket costs for patients. Jackie highlights significant data points indicating a shift in employer-sponsored insurance offerings and the implications of rising healthcare costs for employers and health systems.
Challenges & Parallels In Quality & Equity Work [Health Equity - Jasmaine McClain, Ph.D.]
Your Health Systems CXO Podcast host Jasmaine McClain focuses on the intersection of health equity and healthcare quality, highlighting how health systems are integrating these two vital areas. Jasmaine also explores the growing trend of health equity teams reporting through quality leadership. She also touches on the challenges health systems face, such as administrative burdens in quality reporting and the nascent development of health equity strategies.
The Return On Investment Of Virtual Nursing [Nurse Executives-Anne Herleth]
Your Health System CXO Podcast host Anne Herleth brings a very special episode about Virtual Nursing. Virtual nursing is a solution that is gaining popularity in the healthcare industry. It involves a virtual nurse overseeing or supporting care delivery by a bedside team. Virtual nursing is not outpatient telehealth or behavioral coaching, but rather a way to enhance the work of bedside nurses. It can improve nurse satisfaction, patient experience, care quality, and care efficiency. However, to achieve the best ROI, virtual nursing needs to be integrated into the core care model and not just used as a tool.
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HEA Roundtable: Beyond Community Benefit
HEA previews new research on community benefit from University of Michigan researchers Dr. Cherie Conley and Dr. Simone Singh that explores the breadth of hospitals' initiatives impacting their communities not always captured in IRS reporting. Review the session recording to learn how health systems are measuring and tracking this work across the country and recommendations for advancing the community benefit narrative.
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HEA Roundtable: Aligning Health Equity and Value-Based Care Strategy
Health systems are increasingly focused on value-based care, yet many struggle to integrate health equity into their efforts to increase lives under risk. Aligning health equity with value-based care is essential for improving outcomes and reducing disparities, but translating this value into actionable strategies remains a challenge for health equity leaders.
This roundtable explores practical approaches for advancing health equity as a key strategic enabler, especially within value-based care models. From navigating payer-provider dynamics to incentivizing health equity investments, this session provides actionable insights for relationship-building between health equity leaders and value-based care executives.
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Q3 2024 Market Pulse
Health systems continue to trend in a positive direction, with margins and investments trending upwards. However, financial indicators are mixed with health systems having less cash on hand compared to pre-pandemic norms and increasing costs mitigating margin recovery. Systems leaders are likely gearing up to press ahead with diversification efforts as high-margin ambulatory services are necessary to push margins towards more sustainable levels. Further margin improvements will enable leaders to tackle larger capital projects and focus on bigger strategic moves.
ASC growth persists, with the acuity of volumes continuing to increase. The incidence of higher acuity cases performed in these settings is expected to continue, as overall share of surgical procedures also creeps up. Leaders face big questions about building or buying, how much ownership to retain, and how to best work with independent minded surgeon-owners. ASCs have organically developed a skepticism of anything built for the acute care market and tend to value long-term relationship building.
Despite struggling with Medicare Advantage, the majority of CFOs indicate an increased investment. For some systems though, rising challenges with denials and preauthorization are causing them to abandon the business line altogether. CFOs and clinical leaders will continue to closely watch CMS rate changes as they evaluate how to serve seniors and maintain sustainable margins across MA and traditional Medicare.
The proliferation of GLP-1s is expected to have a $300 billion impact on health spending. But concerns remain related to access and safety due to persistent shortages and unregulated compounding. Bariatric surgery remains more cost effective compared to a full cycle of GLP-1, with costs potentially rising when the shortage abates. Further, the rise of med spas and prescribing virtual care platforms have changed how consumers access therapeutics and medications, pulling them away from even the outpatient setting.
Early Tech Investment data from THMA suggests CIOs continue to focus on partnership expansion rather than spend with new vendors. This comes as leaders focus on scalability, stability, and diversification across business lines entering 2025, and are considering how to optimize their suite of current tech platforms across their systems. Executives will be looking to put the right systems in place to suit their growth and optimization strategies but are likely to create a more rigorous buying cycle to prevent the potential accrual of added tech debt.
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