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- By Tory Wolff
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 …
- By Tory Wolff
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…
- By Tory Wolff
Summary
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…
- By Tory Wolff
Summary
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…
- By Tory Wolff
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…
- By Tory Wolff
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…
- By Tory Wolff
Summary
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…
- By Nikhil Bhojwani
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…
- By Nikhil Bhojwani
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…