In just 68 seconds, our new video demonstrates how digital healthcare technology improves health literacy and healthcare outcomes by guiding a patient's daily actions through text messaging, email and app.
How Digital Healthcare Technology Improves Health Literacy and Outcomes Through Patient Engagement
Topics: Patient Engagement, Patient Experience, Healthcare Technology, health literacy, ASC
Virtual Patient Engagement: Critical for ASCs Competing for TJRs
How does an Ambulatory Surgery Center manage the continuum of care and associated risks without the traditional infrastructure of hospitals, while also keeping costs under control?
Topics: joint replacement, ASC
New CMS Rules Represent Tremendous Opportunity for ASCs
In 2021, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) authorized payment to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) for outpatient hip replacement surgeries, adding to the outpatient knee replacement surgeries authorized the previous year.
The size and projected market growth for outpatient total knee and hip replacement surgeries represent tremendous opportunity—with a projected $13.5B in total joint replacement (TJR) business for ASCs, and nearly half of all joint replacement surgeries expected to move to outpatient centers by 2026.
But while the market and opportunity for ASCs is enormous, so are the challenges, as:
Topics: CMS, joint replacement, ASC