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"improved health outcomes." These changes will
require robust frameworks to ensure continuity
of care, system capacity, and access, while decreasing emergency department and inpatient
admissions.

TA K E F I V E

ORIANA BEAUDET

The vice president of healthcare
transformation and clinical leader at Array
Architects discusses the top five trends and
issues getting her attention right now.

4. REDESIGNING HEALTH SYSTEMS
INTO HEALTH ECOSYSTEMS

As the financial reimbursement models associated with population health and risk continue to expand, we need to start quantifying
the partnerships between health systems and
community groups. Health systems will have
to balance nontraditional growth, like Kaiser
Permanente's launch of a tech platform to track
the social determinants of health, with the rapid pace of advancement in acute care settings,
including higher utilization of technologically
driven surgical and interventional procedures.
Redesigning and distributing services across
health systems and within their communities
is a unique chance for this industry to bring
its biggest ideas to the health strata across our
country.

1. EMPLOYER-DRIVEN HEALTH OUTCOMES

Employers are tired of paying for the high cost of care and have started
searching for ways to lower costs while improving quality. A Kaiser
Family Foundation survey reveals the average cost of health insurance
increased 5 percent over the last year, with family insurance coverage
averaging $19,500-of which $14,000 was a direct cost to employers. The
solution to this cost burden is unclear, but employer-sponsored wellness
initiatives have had mixed results. For that reason, the next iteration of
employer-driven transformation is the creation of businesses like Haven Healthcare formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan
Chase to bring together the resources and capabilities of the three companies to create better outcomes, greater satisfaction, and lower costs
for employees and families. This push will create new opportunities for
healthcare systems practicing at the highest levels.
2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

5. CHANGING ROLE OF HEALTH-

Increasingly, companies are investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to power everything from voice assistants to translation apps. The large-scale
datasets owned by healthcare organizations are a huge opportunity for a
technology-driven transformation across the industry in areas like precision
medicine, population health, financial and operational modeling, and future
policy creation. Although the healthcare industry will have unique barriers
to implementing AI, due to siloed data caused by interoperability issues between systems and incomplete datasets across electronic health records,
the need to build AI's healthcare capacity is critical for large-scale population health improvements.

CARE PROFESSIONALS

Nurses and medical professionals realize that
if we don't engage in new ways to find solutions
for our national and global health challenges,
other people will change healthcare without our
input. Nurses and healthcare professionals are
expanding their training to meet present and
future health needs by pursuing nontraditional
education and experiences to supplement their
backgrounds in science (i.e. angel investing,
health startups, medical device design, computer science) to build new solutions. They have the
inside edge with their deep experience, which
creates unique opportunities for innovation and
transformation. Ultimately, the passion healthcare professionals have to serve is extending
their reach through broader interdisciplinary
partnerships for every community.

3 . R E I M B U R S E M E N T, P O L I C Y, A N D P U B L I C H E A L T H

Hospitals across the country are experiencing increasing market competition and stricter requirements for reimbursement. As criteria for inpatient
admission becomes more stringent, increasingly complex care cases are being pushed to lower-cost care settings like ambulatory facilities. Accordingly,
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' new payment model, Primary
Care First, will increase reimbursement to health systems as they increase
the amount of risk they're able to manage, focusing financial rewards on

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