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"Rather than building their own healthcare capabilities, many operators will partner on care coordination to unlock value."
Housing and Healthcare Blog
Weekly insights, interviews, news, and opinions on healthcare and seniors housing.
Authors’ views are their own and do not reflect the views of NIC.
Home Health: Is It Better to Own or Partner?
No matter where they live, most seniors prefer to age in place. But as they do, they also typically need more services. These can include assistance with the activities of daily living as well as health services. But what’s the best way to deliver those ancillary...
Population Health Management Summit to Address Provider-Led Insurance Strategies
Amid huge structural changes in the healthcare system, population health management is quickly emerging as a way for skilled nursing and assisted living providers to improve the healthcare outcomes of residents and reduce costs. “Population health management is an...
Age-Friendly Health Systems Allow Better Outcomes for Seniors
Life expectancy rates over the past century have nearly doubled. And as Terry Fulmer, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation, sees it, increased longevity is the greatest success story of the 20th century. Speaking to an audience of seniors housing and care...
2019 NIC Talk Says the Time for Telemedicine is Now
In his NIC Talk, The Future of Telemedicine, at the 2019 NIC Fall Conference, he opens with: “I’m here to tell you about why, and how, the healthcare delivery system that we have today is going to be virtualized. This is important to you because if you have a virtualized healthcare delivery system you can actually bring healthcare to the seniors as opposed to the seniors having to travel into the healthcare delivery system to get their care.”
Collaboration Key to Success in Changing Skilled Nursing Landscape
What separates the winners from the losers? The question took center stage at a panel discussion on skilled nursing at the recent 2019 NIC Fall Conference in Chicago. The panel included three industry experts and was moderated by NIC Senior Principal Bill...
“There's a huge opportunity for seniors housing to collaborate with home health.”
“Understand what metrics your hospital partners want.”
“Rather than building their own healthcare capabilities, many operators will partner on care coordination to unlock value.”
“Providers are teaming up to assure a seamless, high quality experience”
“If you are not talking the health plan's language, you will be commoditized.”
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