Category: Thought Leadership

Dan Juberg, Strategic Partnerships, Lumeris The not-for-profit health system sector was already battling a business model under significant pressure. And then along came 2020. Between COVID-19, ballooning unemployment, and a sharper focus on inequity, 2020 has reinforced healthcare’s ever-present quagmire: a system where society expects an efficient and streamlined industry, but with the most robust (…)

John Fryer, Vice President, Lumeris The Healthcare Dollar Challenge During COVID-19 As healthcare organizations move beyond crisis response and begin plotting their recovery path, the need for health systems to transform has jumped to the forefront of the national dialogue. COVID-19 highlighted the best and worst parts of our unique delivery system and will forever (…)

John Fryer, Vice President, Market Strategy & Growth The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting the current healthcare industry in unprecedented ways. How can health systems prepare for the future, developing strategies for the short, medium and long-term? The excerpt below highlights several key areas where healthcare will likely need to change as the industry adjusts to (…)

by Sam Wollner, Market Lead, Lumeris Faced with an overwhelming influx of COVID-19 patients to their hospitals, or bracing for it, health systems around the country are forced to make extremely difficult clinical and financial decisions. ICUs and emergency departments in some areas are near or beyond capacity. Elective and non-urgent procedures are halted, and (…)

by Ross Armstrong, Senior Vice President and Head of Market, Lumeris   “Not all smart people work for you.” Bill Joy, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems Why innovation is needed in healthcare Innovation in healthcare continues to grow, not only because of the multitude of bright and curious minds serving the industry, but because of the (…)

Download the whitepaper The march toward value-based care delivery and financing will continue despite deep industry structural inertia, business self-preservation motives, and the shift in national politics. As we head toward 20 percent of US gross domestic product (GDP) being spent on healthcare, economic forces and federal budget math will demand the long-term transition to (…)

Lumeris is pleased to feature Paul Keckley, Managing Editor of the Keckley Report and industry expert, provide his thoughts on where the industry is on moving to value. You can read his insights here as well as listen to him on our Tuning Healthcare podcast. Summit: February 26-27, 2020 Big Sky, Montana The Big Sky (…)