Show Notes

June 27, 2022: Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors joins Bill for the news. On this episode we discuss four main subjects, leading with how twelve leading hospitals are scaling back care for a variety of reasons, including financial challenges and staffing issues. Trinity Health in Connecticut suspended inpatient and outpatient surgeries on June 9 due to a staffing shortage. And Johnson Memorial Hospital is now referring both their outpatient and inpatient surgery patients to other system-owned hospitals in the area. The healthcare sector is in the midst of a perfect storm. CIOs of leading health systems are grappling with a talent shortage, budgetary constraints and conflicting enterprise priorities. How are they dealing with this? Can academic medical centers be an answer? EHR giant Epic announced that it will apply to become one of the inaugural Qualified Health Information Networks (QHIN) under TEFCA. Epic’s Care Everywhere platform exchanges 10 million patient charts every day, and Epic notes that half of those exchanges occur with organizations that use different systems.

Key Points:

• We know we have a mental health crisis
• Clinician costs have gone up significantly
• Simplify, modernize, innovate 
• Sue Schade blog
• StarBridge Advisors

Stories:

• 12 hospitals scaling back care - Beckers
• How are leading CIOs dealing with the perfect storm in healthcare - Damo Consulting
• Epic Says It Will Apply to be a QHIN Under TEFCA - Healthcare Innovation