Hospitals ’ Soft Underbelly: The Capital Conundrum [Snippet]
Hospitals’ Soft Underbelly: The Capital Conundrum
Tax-exempt hospital systems without fortress balance sheets and top quartile operating performance will be capital constrained in the future healthcare economy, even if tax-exempt debt continues be cheap and accessible. Stating the obvious: operating a hospital is a capital intensive activity. Historically, hospitals have required about $1 of invested capital to generate $1 of hospital revenue. As hospital systems contemplate changing their facility-based fee-for-service models into health enterprise models responsible for managing populations of patients and b...
Source: e-CareManagement - March 31, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs
Hospitals’ Soft Underbelly: The Capital Conundrum [Snippet]
Hospitals’ Soft Underbelly: The Capital Conundrum
Tax-exempt hospital systems without fortress balance sheets and top quartile operating performance will be capital constrained in the future healthcare economy, even if tax-exempt debt continues be cheap and accessible. Stating the obvious: operating a hospital is a capital intensive activity. Historically, hospitals have required about $1 of invested capital to generate $1 of hospital revenue. As hospital systems contemplate changing their facility-based fee-for-service models into health enterprise models responsible for managing populations of patients and b...
Source: e-CareManagement - March 31, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs
Apple ResearchKit is Open Source, But is it “ Open ” ?
For now, the answer is “we don’t know”.
But… the question is very important and worth tracking over the coming months. Let’s not assume that open source will equate to “open”. (more…)
Table of contents for the series--The Patient Digital Health Platform (PDHP) EcosystemPatient Digital Health Platforms…A First TakeWill Apple’s Strategic Beachhead Be Doctors, Not Patients?PowerPoint — 7 Questions Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform (PDHP) Ecosystem7 Questions Are Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform Ecosystem — HIN ArticleApple ResearchKit is Open Source, But is it...
Source: e-CareManagement - March 11, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Source Type: blogs
Apple ResearchKit is Open Source, But is it “Open”?
For now, the answer is “we don’t know”.
But… the question is very important and worth tracking over the coming months. Let’s not assume that open source will equate to “open”. (more…)
Table of contents for the series--The Patient Digital Health Platform (PDHP) EcosystemPatient Digital Health Platforms…A First TakeWill Apple’s Strategic Beachhead Be Doctors, Not Patients?PowerPoint — 7 Questions Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform (PDHP) Ecosystem7 Questions Are Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform Ecosystem — HIN ArticleApple ResearchKit is Open Source, But is it...
Source: e-CareManagement - March 11, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Source Type: blogs
7 Questions Are Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform Ecosystem — HIN Article
My article “Seven Questions Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform Ecosystem” is published in the February 2015 issue of Healthcare Innovation News.
You can download a copy of the article by clicking here.
Accompanying PowerPoint slides are available here.
Table of contents for the series--The Patient Digital Health Platform (PDHP) EcosystemPatient Digital Health Platforms…A First TakeWill Apple’s Strategic Beachhead Be Doctors, Not Patients?PowerPoint — 7 Questions Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform (PDHP) Ecosystem7 Questions Are Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform Ecosyst...
Source: e-CareManagement - February 11, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Apple digital health Google Microsoft Philips platform Salesforce Samsung WebMD Source Type: blogs
7 Questions Are Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform Ecosystem — HIN Article
My article “Seven Questions Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform Ecosystem” is published in the February 2015 issue of Healthcare Innovation News.
You can download a copy of the article by clicking here.
Accompanying PowerPoint slides are available here.
Table of contents for the series--The Patient Digital Health Platform (PDHP) EcosystemPatient Digital Health Platforms…A First TakeWill Apple’s Strategic Beachhead Be Doctors, Not Patients?PowerPoint — 7 Questions Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform (PDHP) Ecosystem7 Questions Are Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform Ecosyst...
Source: e-CareManagement - February 11, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Apple digital health Google Microsoft Philips platform Salesforce Samsung WebMD Source Type: blogs
The “ Shake the Winter Blahs ” Edition of Health Wonk Review
It’s the middle of winter. Feeling blah? Need some stimulation? You’ve come to the right place!
Welcome to The “Shake the Winter Blahs” Edition of the Health Wonk review. For the second time, it’s my honor to host HWR — providing you summaries and links to the best recent writing in the health blogosphere. Let’s go!
Federal Health Policy
At the Health Affairs Blog, Princeton professor Uwe Reinhardt jumps off from the recent controversy about Jonathan Gruber’s remarks describing the American public as “stupid”. He writes that Gruber’s apologies were appropriate. The post...
Source: e-CareManagement - January 15, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Blog Carnivals Health Policy/Reform Source Type: blogs
The “Shake the Winter Blahs” Edition of Health Wonk Review
It’s the middle of winter. Feeling blah? Need some stimulation? You’ve come to the right place!
Welcome to The “Shake the Winter Blahs” Edition of the Health Wonk review. For the second time, it’s my honor to host HWR — providing you summaries and links to the best recent writing in the health blogosphere. Let’s go!
Federal Health Policy
At the Health Affairs Blog, Princeton professor Uwe Reinhardt jumps off from the recent controversy about Jonathan Gruber’s remarks describing the American public as “stupid”. He writes that Gruber’s apologies were appropriate. The post...
Source: e-CareManagement - January 15, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Blog Carnivals Health Policy/Reform Source Type: blogs
PowerPoint — 7 Questions Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform (PDHP) Ecosystem
I hope you’ll enjoy reviewing my slides from my December 3 presentation at the 11th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference.
The presentation is formally entitled: “Patient Digital Health Platforms (PDHPs): Epicenter of Healthcare Transformation?”…
…but more informally, I pose and address 7 key questions — the answers to which will shape the future of the PDHP ecosystem. The answers aren’t all that clear yet because it’s very early and because most of the companies involved haven’t yet shared a lot of details about their plans.
The 7 questions about the emerging PDHP eco...
Source: e-CareManagement - December 3, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) 2net Apple Health Google Fit Google Wear Microsoft Patient Digital Health Platforms PDHP Philips Salesforce Samsung WebMD Source Type: blogs
PowerPoint — 7 Questions Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform (PDHP) Ecosystem
I hope you’ll enjoy reviewing my slides from my December 3 presentation at the 11th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference.
The presentation is formally entitled: “Patient Digital Health Platforms (PDHPs): Epicenter of Healthcare Transformation?”…
…but more informally, I pose and address 7 key questions — the answers to which will shape the future of the PDHP ecosystem. The answers aren’t all that clear yet because it’s very early and because most of the companies involved haven’t yet shared a lot of details about their plans.
The 7 questions about the emerging PDHP eco...
Source: e-CareManagement - December 3, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) 2net Apple Health Google Fit Google Wear Microsoft Patient Digital Health Platforms PDHP Philips Salesforce Samsung WebMD Source Type: blogs
ACO Lessons Learned: Revisiting the Timing of Downside Risk
The editor and publisher of Accountable Care News have been generous in allowing me to republish my article from the November 2014 issue.
Click here to download a .pdf copy of the article. It’s in-depth — about 2,000 words.
Here’s the article in a nutshell:
One of the most critical aspects of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACO has been around the timing and certainty of requiring mandatory downside financial risk for physician and hospital participants. Provider protests cajoled CMS to backing off an initial stance of “firm and unwavering” for ACO mandatory risk requirements in 201...
Source: e-CareManagement - December 1, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Health Policy/Reform accountable care ACO capitation Medicare Shared Savings Program Source Type: blogs
11th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference, San Diego, December 3-4
December 3-4, 2014
San Diego, CA
Technology-Enabled Consumer Engagement & Behavior Change
Register by November 17th to receive a $100 early bird discount.
The Healthcare Unbound Conference will focus on technology-enabled consumer engagement and behavior change.
Technologies to be discussed include wearables, mHealth, remote monitoring, eHealth and social media.
Moving beyond just a “cool technology” focus, this event will offer practical approaches for healthcare stakeholders and digital health companies. The program will address the reasons that the sustained a...
Source: e-CareManagement - November 4, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Source Type: blogs
ThoughtLeaders: Prognosis for Medicare and Commercial ACOs
A number of pundits are citing the systemic failure of ACOs, after additional Pioneer ACOs announced withdrawal from the program – Where do you weigh in on the prognosis for Medicare and Commercial ACOs over the next several years?”
Republished courtesy of MCOL
Mark Lutes Chair, Board of Directors, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Certainly, if we dial back the rhetoric and the expectations for immediate system -wide transformation, we can expect accountable care organizations to make a contribution to incentivizing more efficient care. Shared savings methodologies are a significant contribution to t...
Source: e-CareManagement - November 2, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Health Policy/Reform ACA accountable care organization ACO health reform Source Type: blogs
