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Academic Health Center & Hospital Strategic Positioning
Academic Health Centers remain the backbone for training future health professionals, as well as advancing science through research. Today’s largest challenges however is funding both for its clinical mission as well as research infrastructure. Being based for years on public funding and alignment with safety net hospitals, AHC’s struggle to keep up with more efficient private hospital consolidations that many times do not provide adequate support financially. In the future, theses AHC’s will have to employ leaders at all levels who understand efficient and cost effective management as they shift from individual and non-coordinated silos of governance.
Private hospital entities are now facing similar pressures to public hospitals as their reimbursements are also being decreased, forcing them to consider new strategies to sustain margins and growth.
Choosing the right leaders for the goals of the organization goes beyond just talent but also getting the right match for the actual circumstances that govern the organization/s. Striking alliances with private entities that will need the provider workforce for their delivery of care provides an opportunity to promote win-win scenarios for both entities.
Physician groups need to realign in areas that help them to scale for clinical services to maintain profitability for their survival. Whether through multidisciplinary groups or single specialty practices, these entities must understand clearly the use of technology and a workforce that allows them the best margins in various environments. Different reimbursement models for different populations will drive much of the structure for these physicians groups.
Understanding how to be nimble and streamlined is critical for success.
Practice management strategies & performance improvement
Investment & Growth Strategy
As organizations strive to modify their strategies they invoke certain risk by necessity. Understanding those risks both in the medicolegal framework as well as the competitive environment is part of the key to choosing a strategy with a high potential of success and minimal risk exposure. Matching their aspirations with proper cost analyses as well as acquiring the right talent that fits their strategy is one of the keys to success or failure.
Directional risk assessment & scenario planning
There are multiple ways in which venture capital is being deployed in health care. The challenge is to choose the right fit with an understanding of where return on investment will come, a timeline for achieving this, and exit strategies that do not damage the business and future growth.
Venture capital healthcare investment strategies
Innovation & Transformation
Physician shortages that are predicted to continue well into the future requires a distributive model of care that will involve teams of extended providers. These teams need excellent training to function as “independent” decision makers in order to deliver care to large populations.
Training programs geared to these aims will be required at all levels (outpatient and inpatient) to develop the efficiencies and returns required in a reimbursement sensitive environment.
Interprofessional healthcare practice strategies
Artificial intelligence has now played a major role in the healthcare market.
Algorithms are being used to drive patient care decisions as we reach for more efficiencies and improved diagnostic methodologies that will save on cost and manpower.
However, these algorithms in their early stages are still open to biases, and additionally, very few professionals understand the tools that have been provided them.
It is imperative as hospital systems, mature, that they embrace this technology, implemented in a practical and safe manner to deliver healthcare in an environment that both enhances the user and results in better outcomes for patients.
Technology innovation & digital health integration
Family healthcare planning & strategies
Healthcare has grown into a complex reality for many families. The rapid pace of medication development, multiple choices of treatment delivery, the segmentation of sub-specialist, and the vast systems of care, can all lead to a near paralysis in best choices as one method no longer fits all. Having an expert who understands the healthcare system and can link not only providers with families, but can assist in choosing the best fit for individual family needs that will go a long way to smooth the twists and turns in an objective manner resulting in reduced bias while taking into account al family stakeholders. This allows a family to make choices from a position of knowledge, not ignorance.