The Impending End of Cross-Subsidization
There is no single solution to the cross-subsidization problem. But here are some strategic actions that can make a health system’s economics more sustainable.
There is no single solution to the cross-subsidization problem. But here are some strategic actions that can make a health system’s economics more sustainable.
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Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
What is needed is a fundamentally different operating model for primary care, one designed around continuous engagement rather than episodic encounters.
Many hospitals are now trying to use AI to automate processes and free up staff time, running simultaneous pilots to perform as many tasks as possible. This quickly leads to pilot sprawl — a state where organizations can no longer even say which agents are still in active use.
The pace of change in digital innovation has exposed the ever-widening gap between digital health and Pharma commercial teams. As a result, Pharma is missing out on its ability to significantly improve its commercial model, by focusing on efficiencies vs. truly reinventing.
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Healthcare leaders know how to test software. We don't yet have a shared playbook for onboarding agents expected to do a job end to end. That is the gap a probation period is meant to fill.
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If trust, transparency, and accountability remain core values in medicine, AI governance cannot be left to improvisation.
The problem is not that companies have failed to make easy-to-use applications. Rather, it’s that there have been limitations to what software can realistically do in a modern healthcare environment.
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