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Northwell Health, formerly known as North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, continues to pursue aggressive expansion moves throughout the New York City metropolitan area. CEO Michael Dowling is also stepping up the New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based system's investment in startup firms and innovative technologies that are launched in-house. Dave Barkholz, Modern Healthcare's Southern Bureau chief, caught up with Dowling at last month's J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. The following is an edited transcript.
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Hospitais Privados , Sistemas Multi-Institucionais , Afiliação Institucional , Tecnologia Biomédica , Sistemas Multi-Institucionais/tendências , Cidade de Nova Iorque , Patient Protection and Affordable Care ActRESUMO
Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System, an integrated delivery network with 12 hospital campuses, a 1600-physician multispecialty group practice and a 551,000-member health plan, recently completed the acquisition of Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton, Pa. In January, Geisinger announced what it's calling Springboard Health Scranton, a multiyear program aimed at improving community health by promoting healthier eating and lifestyle changes coordinated with chronic care management. Modern Healthcare reporter Dave Barkholz recently spoke with Gelsinger CEO Dr. David Feinberg about these and other developments. The following is an edited transcript.
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Determinantes Sociais da Saúde , Bases de Dados Genéticas , Abastecimento de Alimentos , Genoma Humano , Acessibilidade aos Serviços de Saúde , Humanos , Saúde da População , Atenção Primária à SaúdeRESUMO
With value-based payment models driving shorter nursing facility stays, Kindred is dumping its skilled-nursing assets in favor of a "virtual portfolio" of preferred skilled-nursing providers.
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Reembolso de Incentivo , Instituições de Cuidados Especializados de Enfermagem , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Some regional not-for-profit systems see acquiring the hospital assets of struggling for-profit operators as a way to gain referrals, expand their provider networks and consolidate their regions.
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Instituições Associadas de Saúde/economia , Instituições Associadas de Saúde/tendências , Sistemas Multi-Institucionais/economia , Setor Privado , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Benefits of hospitals investing their venture capital in health startups: The startups get more than funds. They get instant feedback on products. Startups can roll out products across a health system rather than marketing door-to-door. Hospitals and systems get first crack at technologies that they have nurtured. Hospitals diversify their investments beyond bonds, stocks and other traditional instruments.
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Financiamento de Capital , Empreendedorismo , Administração Financeira de Hospitais/tendências , Software , Atenção à Saúde , Investimentos em Saúde/economiaRESUMO
While many hospital systems and large physician practices are moving their employed physicians to bonus plans that reward quality and patient satisfaction as well as productivity, some are doing away with bonuses altogether.
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Médicos/economia , Salários e Benefícios , Humanos , Satisfação do Paciente , Qualidade da Assistência à SaúdeRESUMO
Health systems have muscled into the venture capital space to support innovations that will help them thrive under value-based reimbursement.
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Financiamento de Capital , Empreendedorismo/economia , Hospitais , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Karen Griffith Gryga is a partner and chief investment officer at Dreamit Ventures, one of the nation's largest accelerators for technology startups. The Philadelphia-based company also invests in early-stage health technology firms. A third of Dreamit's 80- plus companies are involved in population health management. Southern Bureau Chief Dave Barkholz interviewed Griffith Gryga. The following is an edited transcript.
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Tecnologia Biomédica/economia , Financiamento de Capital , Comportamento Cooperativo , Economia Hospitalar , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Catholic-sponsored Ascension was among the first health systems to set up a venture capital arm to invest in health technology companies. Since 2001, Ascension Ventures has raised $800 million with hospital partners to nurture startup companies. Today, more than 60 health systems have their own venture capital units. Modern Healthcare Southern Bureau Chief Dave Barkholz spoke with managing director Matt Hermann about the promise and pitfalls awaiting hospital systems just getting into the venture capital game. The following is an edited transcript.
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Tecnologia Biomédica , Comportamento de Escolha , Hospitais , Investimentos em Saúde , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Population health management is now one of the top six fields in healthcare attracting new money from venture capital firms, thanks in large part to the aging of the baby boomer population.
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Financiamento de Capital , Saúde da População , Empreendedorismo , Estados UnidosRESUMO
The new Epic system is being tailored for Vanderbilt's needs, butitremains standard enough to receive frequent company upgrades, while allowing clinicians and researchers to use a modern software system that won't feel foreign if they have to work with others outside of Vanderbilt.
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Difusão de Inovações , Registros Eletrônicos de Saúde , Estudos de Casos OrganizacionaisRESUMO
The need for scale and space is accelerating tie-ups between hospital giants.
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Instituições Associadas de Saúde/tendências , Sistemas Multi-Institucionais/tendências , Eficiência Organizacional , Objetivos Organizacionais , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Kaiser Permanente features basketball star Steph Curry in a new mental-health ad campaign that illustrates how even the Golden State shooting phenom must overcome doubts about his game. Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest Integrated health system, has made mental-health awareness a priority this year as It seeks to promote the total health of the Individuals and communities It serves, according to Chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson. Earlier this year, Tyson sat down with Southern Bureau Chief Dave Barkholz in San Francisco, just across the bay from Kaiser Permanente's Oakland headquarters, to discuss mental health, the social determinants of health and Kaiser Permanente's always-active expansion strategy. The following is an edited transcript.
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Comércio , Prestação Integrada de Cuidados de Saúde , Seguradoras , Seguro Saúde , Serviços de Saúde Mental , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , Saúde Pública , São Francisco , Determinantes Sociais da SaúdeRESUMO
Hospital and healthcare boards are adding newcomers at a slow pace, though consumerism and reimbursement changes are demanding new skill sets for trustees.
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Diversidade Cultural , Conselho Diretor , Administração de Instituições de Saúde , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Hospital systems have begun in earnest to shift more of their capital spending to outpatient facilities to provide more cost-effective and convenient settings for consumers.
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Ambulatório Hospitalar/economia , Preferência do Paciente , Tomada de Decisões Gerenciais , Humanos , Ambulatório Hospitalar/provisão & distribuição , Estados UnidosRESUMO
The bond market continues to be favorable for hospitals looking to finance projects, growth.