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Orthopedic and spine services

Orthopedic and spine service line leaders need actionable guidance on how to strategize around persistent growth challenges. Use the orthopedic- and spine-specific resources in this library to aid your institution’s strategic planning efforts.

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How 17 procedures are shifting to outpatient delivery in over 20 countries

The proportion of procedures delivered on a same-day basis is increasing around the world, but wide variation still exists between countries. Explore the site-of-care data on 17 key procedures in over 20 countries. Use this information to benchmark your own rates, incorporate the data into your clinical services plans, and identify which countries to look to for emerging clinical evidence.

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Digital surgery: A way for orthopaedic programs to set themselves apart

Orthopaedic programs face a growing demand for outpatient joint procedures, with volumes projected to rise 44% over the next five years. Explore how digital surgery technologies like VELYS™ Enabling Tech can help differentiate your orthopaedic program; improve procedural results; and meet the needs of patients, health plans, and providers.

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Neurosciences growth forecast: What you need to know

Our recently updated Market Scenario Planner projects a significant increase in neurological services, especially in the inpatient setting. Uncover the drivers of future volume growth and gain insights into the challenges and opportunities providers face.

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Musculoskeletal health market trends

Get the latest insights on the trends impacting musculoskeletal care. Download these ready-to-use slides to stay informed and guide conversations about this evolving market.

Cheat Sheet

Orthopedics service line outlook – 2024

Get our predictions on key drivers, volume outlooks, and strategic imperatives that are driving (or slowing) growth in orthopedics service lines.

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Top drivers of change in the musculoskeletal market

Four key drivers reshaping the delivery of musculoskeletal care

Cheat Sheet

Musculoskeletal health stakeholder cheat sheet

Discover the top three musculoskeletal care priorities of each stakeholder, including providers, payers, life sciences companies, digital health companies and consumers.

Design your service line

Orthopedics strategic plan template

Use our new template to develop a orthopedics-specific health plan that you can adapt to reflect your institution's changing priorities. The template provides direction on four steps of the planning process: performance analysis, market assessment, plan design, and plan evaluation.

Research

Service line development grids

How does an intermediate program differ from a progressive one? To help you understand what differentiates levels of program maturity, we’ve created service line-specific benchmarks based on research interviews and market expertise.

Cheat Sheet

Orthopedics and spine physician alignment models

This primer offers an overview of six alignment models and how they balance different priorities from physician autonomy to cost and quality improvement, provides guidance on implementation, and showcases examples of how to select the most meaningful metrics and an example of a comprehensive contract.

Cheat Sheet

Spine program models

Understand the strategies and various spine program models you should be considering.

Navigate site-of-care shift pressures

Decision Guide

Timing the shift of joint replacements to freestanding sites of care

How and when should you transition joint replacements to ambulatory surgery centers? Use our decision guide to find out.

Research

ASC services outlook

Get a clear view into the future of ambulatory surgery center (ASC) services to help you prioritize investments and align goals.

Case Study

How two orthopedics programs shifted joint replacements to ASCs

Learn how two orthopedics programs shifted joint replacements to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) to retain volume and compete for new patients.

Research

What drives procedures out of the inpatient setting?

We used claims data to investigate how procedures shift out of the inpatient setting and enable better predictions of site-of-care shifts.

Research

Interactive maps: See where site-of-care shifts are having the biggest impact

Site-of-care shifts are accelerating across the industry. But these shifts are happening at different speeds in different markets — and with even more variation at the procedure level. Discover how procedures and key services are shifting out of the hospital with our interactive maps.

Research

Site-of-care shift trends for key procedures and outpatient services

Discover the latest trends in site-of-care shifts for outpatient services with our interactive graphs. See how 15 key procedures and over 150 subservice lines are shifting between care sites so you can incorporate these findings into your site-of-care shift planning.

Improve efficiency

Case Study

How Penn Medicine centralized its fragmented spine referral process

Penn centralized its fragmented referral process by creating a single channel for intaking and triaging internal physicians’ referrals: the multidisciplinary spine access team. The team worked with Penn’s physicians and advanced practice providers to design its protocols, securing their buy-in for the new system.

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The hospital leader’s guide to improving operating room efficiency

Overcoming inefficiencies along the surgical pathway requires collaboration across disciplines. Access our best research to assess your operating room (OR) strategy and improve efficiency.

Research

Build a sustainable outpatient joint replacement program

Build operational readiness to meet the new market reality, maximize reimbursement and cut costs to maintain margins, and partner with physicians to retain volumes within your health system with our six tactics.

Research

Patient navigation in joint replacement and spine care

This research briefing offers six examples of orthopaedic patient navigation programmes from around the world and explores the benefits and limitations of three types of patient navigators.

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Expert Insight

4 ways comprehensive obesity care can boost surgical services

Hospital and health system leaders worry that Wegovy and similar weight management medications will erode their bariatric surgery volumes and revenue. However, when health systems and providers provide comprehensive obesity care, they can drive growth for surgical services by improving outcomes, increasing volume, and decreasing costs.

Expert Insight

5 strategies for spine providers to appeal to cost-conscious employers

Patient steerage tactics are gaining popularity among employers due to promises of lower costs and improved quality of care. Here are 5 strategies spine providers can learn from Walmart’s spine COEs to appeal to employers and win guaranteed volume streams.

Decision Guide

Is your spine program ready for employer steerage?

A checklist outlining the three prerequisites for engaging in spine steerage agreements with large employers.

Research

When and how to differentiate your sports medicine program

This report details two tactics to disrupt your competitor referrals through sports medicine program differentiation.

Research

How to build ASC referrals

Health systems are increasingly focusing on ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) as a means to increase OR capacity, gain market share, and offer a lower-cost site of service. Read this to learn expert tactics for appealing to surgery center stakeholders.

Research

What do consumers want from orthopedic care?

Explore how individuals select orthopedic providers and what factors drive their decisions to help you build your consumer strategy.

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Orthopedic and spine services

How 17 procedures are shifting to outpatient delivery in over 20 countries

Digital surgery: A way for orthopaedic programs to set themselves apart

Neurosciences growth forecast: What you need to know

Musculoskeletal health market trends

Orthopedics service line outlook – 2024

Top drivers of change in the musculoskeletal market

Musculoskeletal health stakeholder cheat sheet

Orthopedics strategic plan template

Service line development grids

Orthopedics and spine physician alignment models

Spine program models

Timing the shift of joint replacements to freestanding sites of care

ASC services outlook

How two orthopedics programs shifted joint replacements to ASCs

What drives procedures out of the inpatient setting?

Interactive maps: See where site-of-care shifts are having the biggest impact

Site-of-care shift trends for key procedures and outpatient services

How Penn Medicine centralized its fragmented spine referral process

The hospital leader’s guide to improving operating room efficiency

Build a sustainable outpatient joint replacement program

Patient navigation in joint replacement and spine care

4 ways comprehensive obesity care can boost surgical services

5 strategies for spine providers to appeal to cost-conscious employers

Is your spine program ready for employer steerage?

When and how to differentiate your sports medicine program

How to build ASC referrals

What do consumers want from orthopedic care?

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