Healthcare Transformation is Massive: What Does it Mean for your Organization?
Whether it is within the public, healthcare practitioners, or those in healthcare organizations, it’s hard to find someone who isn’t lamenting a broken healthcare system and the need for transformation.
If you lead a hospital or healthcare system, your board may be probing as to how you can gain increased national recognition. Or your clinical team may be looking for solutions to mitigate rehospitalizations or provide innovative models of care. Your chief financial officer is no doubt focused on keeping the doors open and the revenue engine humming.
Those leading the charge toward value-based care are looking to achieve better metrics around the quintuple aim. And those in medical practice want to hire new practitioners who can help optimize business integrity, growth, and patient care. Transformation is exciting but it’s hard to know how to chart an effective path.
I recall working with an organization that was seeking innovative models of care and a new identity, but they were driving blind on exactly what innovations aligned with their organizational goals, service lines, or business practices. Was it more technology? Was it recruiting new providers with lifestyle, integrative, or whole-person training? Was it hiring care coordinators, behavioral health experts, or coaches? Digital health solutions and remote monitoring devices abound but how would they integrate into workflow? These and other questions put their transformation mindset on a protracted hold pattern.
Healthcare transformation is massive and accelerating. Everyone needs to jump on board in some way. Lifestyle medicine will be your foundation for true healthcare transformation so be wise when selecting a strategic consultant with enough boots-on-the-ground experience in direct patient care, lifestyle medicine programmatic builds, and integration of technology. Find someone who can effectively meet with your C-suite and service line directors and align with your organizational goals. That’s the way you will get the most meaningful and truly transformational results.