Over the long slog of the last several decades, health care's various sectors have become increasingly inward-focused, unaware that their roles are within a larger system, and insensitive to the larger well-being of both the patient and the purchaser.
Primary care has been compromised. There is rampant excess in the specialties.
Health plans have often abrogated cost and quality management in favor of simply bundling, financing, and marketing health care services. And employers have become frustrated with unrelenting, rampant cost growth.
These dynamics have created an opportunity for vendors who can establish systems that identify and manage health/financial risk directly on behalf of employers and others who own that risk.
—Brian Klepper, Healthcare Performance Inc.
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