At conferences, healthcare leaders vow to challenge the status quo as a collective
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As I mentioned in my post about the 340B Coalition Winter Conference, I am now seeing people with stop-light lanyards, bracelets, ribbons, hand sanitizer, vaccine apps and billboard masks, bringing a new norm to networking and gathering. There were opportunities at each session to meet the next generation of healthcare administration graduates and current leaders, including my fellow pharmacist colleagues joining for the first time (I counted just under a baker’s dozen and met with half of them) and participating in the ACHE annual fundraiser and volunteer project — painting! My fast track this year included 12 hours of continuing education with a focus on: • Healthcare delivery models of the future (specialty/infusion pharmacies, retail health and connectivity) • Lowering the cost of care through community/population engagement (episodic care turned to longitudinal care) using the metaphor “your body is your car,” like Jiffy Lube for humans • Value-based healthcare, ethics and “co-opetition” rather than competition (all three are a must for the future) • Data governance (always fun for me being that The Craneware Group is a technology company that does this daily) • Revenue cycle (we are also all about this from the value cycle solutions Craneware offers, including dashboards, scorecards and metrics) A common theme at each meeting was that the “great resignation” has left healthcare leaders with giant personnel holes to fill and that their hope is for technology to save the day. Michael Chernew, a Harvard professor of health care policy and MedPAC member, discussed the strain on the Medicare program, alternative payment models, and the multitude of fiscal challenges facing the United States healthcare system. His insights into the past and predictions for our future — and the political process that will be at war with what is right — will keep healthcare leaders in a constant state of flux to shift payment strategy while maintaining quality.
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