Fact Based List:
10 Challenges And Opportunities For Hospitals In 2015
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/05/2015 - 13:22
- Population health - One of the biggest ideas in healthcare this past year, and it will likely maintain or gain momentum in the next few years to come
- Shifting from volume- to value-based reimbursement - The move from volume- to value-based reimbursement is inevitable
- Regulatory demands - Providers must adhere to numerous, complex regulations that set guidelines and expectations for quality, coding, reimbursement and overall care delivery
- Infection control, especially in light of Ebola - The presence and transmission of the Ebola virus within U.S. steered the public eye toward the provider organizations' infection control efforts
- Demonstrating the value of M&A to consumers - virtually every hospital and health system will be touched by the unfolding wave of healthcare M&A
- Truly integrating systems - Many executives are beginning to realize their health systems are merely jumbled collections of healthcare facilities with different strategies
- Overspecialization of the physician workforce and questions over the physician shortage - As an increasing number of Americans gain insurance coverage, the demand for primary care increases
- Hospital closures - This presents numerous challenges for patients, employees and community residents
- Reimbursement rate differences - On average, Medicare paid hospital outpatient departments 78 percent more than ambulatory surgery centers for the same procedure in 2013
- Data, data everywhere - Health IT does things worthy of big ideas in areas both clinically and consumer-driven
Source: Becker's Hospital Review
Source URL: http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-adm...
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