This document provides a summary of 10 healthcare trends for 2023, as identified by Health Catalyst executives Tim Zenger and Dan Orenstein. The trends discussed include: workforce challenges, privacy issues related to abortion, macroeconomic stressors like inflation, the Biden administration's healthcare agenda, patient disengagement, the Republican healthcare agenda in Congress, the transition to value-based care, price transparency enforcement, data analytics maturity, and the planned ending of the COVID-19 public health emergency. For each trend, data and insights are presented on recent developments and their potential implications for healthcare leaders.
2. Agenda
1. Workforce Management
2. Privacy Trends – Dobbs and 42 CFR Part 2
3. Macro Economic Trends
4. The Administration’s Healthcare Agenda
5. Patient Disengagement
6. 118th Congress and the Republican
Healthcare Agenda
7. Transition To VBC
8. Price Transparency Enforcement
9. Analytics Maturity
10. Sunset of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
Education and health services
Healthcare has about 54% of employees leaving the industry.
are top employment industries.
The NPRM proposes to: Permit Part 2 programs to use and disclose Part 2 records based on a single prior consent signed by the patient for all future uses and disclosures for treatment, payment, and health care operations.
The operating margin index appears to be cyclical with occasional months dipping into the negative, the recent trend is unique at least since 2019
The January jobs report showed nonfarm payrolls increased by 517,000, far higher than the 187,000 market estimate.
We as a country pay more of a premium than any other country yet our delivery is lacking
Patient Days
Private : 60%
Medicare:: 29%
Medicaid: 11%
74%** of patients have never heard about value-based care?
Failure to provide a “machine readable” file of standard charges was one of the top non-compliance items. Also, failure to provide adequate lists of shoppable services.
Put frost and Sullivan says low digital maturity organizations try to utilize their EHR as their digital and data source of truth.