-Offering flexible payment plans to help patients pay for their care (and encourage more treatment acceptance)
Healthcare administration will become streamlined
To keep costs down, healthcare system operations must become leaner. Because many providers lost revenue while non-essential procedures were restricted, organizations are having to learn to run lean operations and implement new business strategies to survive. For example, administrators and doctors can use AI and big data to make better-informed decisions about what they need to operate while ensuring quality patient care.
A leaner healthcare system requires systems to rely on each other. Larger systems can help to support smaller systems in a hub-and-spoke style of support to maximize resources for patient care. Now is the time for larger healthcare systems to answer the call to lead.
What is the future of healthcare?
Behind the call to improve the healthcare system is the desire for a better human experience. While we can’t predict the future, we can also use this crisis as an opportunity to shape it. The need to improve the patient experience has been long coming, and now is our chance.
About the author: Terry Rowinski is the president and CEO of Health Payments Systems, Inc.Back to HCB News
