Service Line Transformation

About This Blog

Welcome to the Marketing and Planning Leadership Council’s blog, Service Line Transformation. This blog serves as the primary communication channel for our Service Line Transformation Initiative, a special multi-year research effort dedicated to helping organizations prepare key service lines for risk-based payment. We will address challenges ranging from growth strategy innovations for key services lines to chronic care strategy, service line leadership, innovative approaches to service line marketing, and more.

For more information on the Service Line Transformation Initiative, or to send us questions, comments, or leads on innovative service line and care delivery models, please email Rachel Reeves.

Recent Posts

The role of service lines in re-designing care processes

on December 20, 2011  |  Permalink

Topics: Service Lines, Planning, Strategy, Care Transformation, Performance Improvement, Evidence-Based Practice, Methodologies, Multidisciplinary Care, Patient-Focused Care

Eric Cragun

The mandate to elevate the value of care across our service lines—the key driver behind service line transformation—requires organizations to first strengthen their service line infrastructure and then make use of the improved infrastructure to redesign their care processes. To that end, we have recently added to Blueprint for Service Line Transformation, updating the study with a section on Re-Designing Care Processes for Value. This second section complements the earlier piece, which provides guidance for Building a Dynamic Leadership Structure. Together, the two sections detail near-term imperatives facing hospitals and health systems, providing actionable steps that yield improved performance under today’s fee-for-service incentives while also preparing organizations for future value-based incentives.

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