November has seen a slew of executive hires, promotions and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For instance, the Joint Commission, Silicon Valley Bank and Regard named new executives. There were also layoffs at organizations including Oak Street Health, Providence and Optum.
Value-based care results in a lot of added administrative tasks for physicians — so much so that one health system leader believes value-based care will never reach true scale unless providers figure out how to ease that burden. The adoption of new technology, coupled with workflow training from fellow physicians, can help address this issue, population health experts say.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
In this month’s episode, Senior Reporter Katie Adams explored some executive moves and layoffs that recently occurred in the healthcare world. She also interviewed Courtney Fortner, who stepped into the CEO role at population health company Navvis this month.