Samsung and Cigna have agreed to a multi-year development alliance for health applications for the Samsung smartphone. The partners will initially focus on content (access to the health-related tips …
In 2011, we would tell our payer clients (tongue firmly ensconced in cheek) that the answer to all questions was "private exchanges." In 2012, the punchline changed to "narrow networks." In 2013, what…
Market for outsourced revenue cycle management could be big
The revenue cycle management (RCM) vendor industry is about $2.0B for hospitals and $11 billion for physicians today. The market is constra…
Quick follow-up to our post about the Epic-eClinicalWorks deal: Today’s Healthcare Informatics has an interview with Martin Harrison, CIO of Cleveland Clinic, was asked what is the biggest strategic …
Epic is famous for its intense focus on interoperability across its own systems coupled with its conservatism regarding interoperability with other EMRs. In 2012, KLAS said Epic has the “deepest data…
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Michael Porter and Thomas Lee have articulated a strategy for fixing healthcare focused on restructuring providers and assessing them based on metrics “that matter to patients”
The most compe…
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In August and early September, several Ohio provider systems have picked sides in the competition between Catholic Health Partners and Cleveland Clinic
The recently announced Health Innovatio…
Last week, I argued that, if payers want to secure competitive advantage from improved provider care, they would need tighter, more exclusive alignments with these providers to “crowd out” the free ri…
A new study in JAMA (by McWilliams et al.) looks at the Medicare expenditures of patients seeing providers enrolled in the BCBS of Massachusetts version of the ACO (Alternative Quality Contract or “AQ…
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Earlier this year, Catholic Health Partners, the largest provider in Ohio, signed two deals which put it on a competitive collision course with Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic has few optio…
When it comes to employee benefits, employers need to be generous either to attract and retain talent or because it is "the right thing to do". The recession and jobless recovery has unquestionably re…
In our last post we introduced two potential scenarios.
"Provider bastions" in which buyers of health care services select upfront the network that they will trust to deliver their care in a coordina…
It seems like every day there’s some news outlining strategic actions that various players are taking or other developments with respect to health reform. Here’s a sample of recent news:
Employer ado…
In 2011 we commented that while the health reform law, the ACA, had several positive intended consequences, it also could spawn several perverse effects and side-effects.
Now in an attempt to ward off…
Answer: When they form an industry association!
Back in February, a group came together to form a national association for ACOs (NAACOS) to, according to the announcement press release, promote the …
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The deal locks in an option for Cleveland Clinic to grow its clinical practice transfer business 4x its current size and much larger than Cleveland Clinic’s peers
There will be significant ch…
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