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The ROI of Consumer-Centered Innovation
Co-Founder, CTO Sean O’Malley sits down with the Healthcare Rap Podcast to discuss the role real-world ROI analysis can play in the push for consumer-centered innovation in US healthcare.

Mind the Data Gap: Improve Economics, Better Outcomes
What you don’t see, can hurt you. Structural data gaps and information failures hurt patients, hamstring the coordination of care, and help fuel the ballooning cost of US healthcare.

Healthcare Provider Valuation: A Modern Approach
In an era of big data, ML and social network science - provider valuation remains quite rudimentary. We offer a path forward to capture network nuance and give buyers a distinct market advantage.

Recession-Proof Healthcare Providers with Value-Based Decision Making
2023 System Survival Guide: Reduce risk, quantify the value that matters most, and systematically assess the return on every investment made — as they progress, and even before they start.

Recession-Proof HealthTech by Taking Ownership of the ROI Narrative
A better articulation of product ROI will be necessary to the survival of healthcare technology companies in the economic turmoil to come. In fact, learn how an ROI-centered strategy can completely transform a business model, and an industry.

Dark Days on the Horizon?
Health systems are taking defensive actions in order to prepare for the fiscal turbulence ahead — and healthcare technology companies and consultancies are already starting to feel the pain.

When The Healthcare Market Gives You Lemons
Healthcare markets are plagued by information failures. In this post we detail these economic lemons and offer a path toward a nice glass of market advantage lemonade.



The No Surprises Act Expands Provider Burden: Tech Can Help Ease The Pain
The regulatory interpretation of the No Surprises Act has left healthcare providers scratching their heads and scrambling to adapt. There are opportunities for technology to help ease the transition and lessen the burden on providers.

The Promise of Value-Based Care
New legislation will ease regulations around health system referrals, with aims of improving care orchestration in the move to value-based care.

How Providers Refer
Statistics overwhelmingly suggest that healthcare providers leverage the currency of social trust when making referral decisions, however, the evolution of US healthcare has required providers to keep super-human rolodexes.
Something has to give.

What Is Network Leakage?
Most health systems in the US lose nearly half of their revenue to network leakage, yet current solutions fall short because the problem is more than complicated, it is rife with nuance that cannot be ignored.