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Dr. Thomas Royer, Jay Herron, Peter Maddox
Because of both continuing and new challenges in the healthcare industry, more transformational changes will be required for success in 2015 and beyond. Replacing the competitive model which has driven hospitals, health systems, and physicians for decades will be an environment requiring collaboration, accountability, and an alignment of incentives for all stakeholders to do what is necessary for ...
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Dr. Thomas Royer, Jay Herron and Peter Maddox
As we did in our first blog last year, in which we reviewed the credibility of our predictions for the healthcare industry in 2013, we begin this new year by reviewing our predictions that we made for 2014. We again ask the question – have our fourteen predictions become the new reality? 1. Rapid change continued to occur in all components of the healthcare arena even though there continues ...
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Jay Herron
During the past few months, I’ve noticed a number of articles discussing the changing role of a healthcare CFO. One article mentioned the growth in unpredictability CFOs would be faced with because of healthcare reform. Increasing financial risk would be another new issue for the CFO to contend with because of new reimbursement models. Significant capital investment in population health ...
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Dr. Thomas Royer
In early 2014 one of our blogs described what we believe the future hospital will look like. We indicated that the patients requiring hospitalization would be those with critical illness, injuries, or immediate post-op from complex surgeries in the neurosurgical, cardiac, and transplant fields. We added that because of the severity of these patients’ conditions, they would be prone to ...
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Dr. Thomas Royer
Several months agao we published a blog putting forth the premise that the increased availability and utilization of clinical technologies in the diagnostic areas – MRIs, CAT Scans, and Ultrasounds – have significantly diminished the use of inspection, auscultation, percussion, and palpation by health care providers. These four tools, utilizing the eyes, ears, and hands, are taught as ...
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