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Impact of COVID-19 to PPE Supply
May 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is the known cause of the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) like N95 respirators. Lesser known or discussed are the underlying dynamics that prevented the healthcare supply chain from quickly recovering from a generational spike in demand.
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Over the last several years, hospitals have experienced the continued shifting of procedures from the inpatient setting to lower cost, and lower margin, ambulatory sites.
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Service line procedure shift
Financial impact of procedure shift
Strategic considerations for the right ambulatory model
As artificial intelligence (AI) evolves into a must-have technology in almost every industry, health care organizations continue to develop—and even accelerate—their AI strategies in 2020. In the 3rd Annual Optum Survey on AI in Health Care, 98% of executives across care provider, health plan, life sciences, and employer organizations indicated they currently have an AI strategy in place or are planning on creating one. Even during a trying time period, this optimism appears to be fueled by executives seeing more and more useful applications for AI for improving both health care outcomes and business performance.
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Consumer insights to help you stay ahead of health care cost trends.
Although organizations continue to make substantial progress in managing health care costs, there’s a fast-moving tailwind on the horizon: a significant increase in the number of people who are dealing with multiple chronic conditions.
By understanding more about these individuals and how they approach life, work and health care, we can better relate to and serve them.
