Medical Economics September 12, 2024
Value-based care is the future of medicine. Health care organizations must adapt technology, venues, primary care and prevention to survive and thrive.
Amid rapid health care industry consolidation, a challenging cost environment, and increasing patient needs and expectations, only truly nimble health care organizations will survive and thrive.
Medical groups focused on prepaid, value-based care are better positioned to innovate, develop, and invest in technologies to respond to patient needs and market dynamics. For example, value-based organizations that bet big on telehealth and remote patient monitoring technologies prior to 2019 were able to continue seeing patients remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast, fee-for-service health care systems — which are paid per office visit, treatment, and test — struggled. As...