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H-ISAC Report: Hacking Healthcare - TLP White, October 8, 2019

In this edition of Hacking Healthcare, we begin by reviewing the troubling news that 10 hospitals were impacted by ransomware last week.

Model Thinking

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Definition: Understand real-world phenomenon by developing simplified representations.

Retail Health Strategies for Hospitals and Health Systems: A SHSMD Resource Digest

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Keeping you at the forefront today for the best patient-friendly solution building tomorrow, SHSMD has developed a resource digest on the hot trend of retail health.
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Eight Myths About Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions

Hospitals and health systems are transforming the way they deliver care in response to patients’ and communities’ changing needs and preferences. At the same time, they face many headwinds such as low government payment rates, increasing prescription drug costs and shifting demographics. 
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Comments on Changes in Quality of Care after Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions

In their recent paper, Beaulieu et al. attempt to estimate the effects of hospital acquisitions on measures of hospital quality at the acquired hospitals. To do so, the authors use four measures of hospital quality and compare the changes in these measures at acquired hospitals relative to changes at a set of non-acquired “control” hospitals.

Assessing the Changing Face of Strategic Partnerships

The latest national “Futurescan” survey of health care executives found that 18% of respondents already have entered into at least three vertical partnerships with organizations in areas such as insurers and pharmaceutical companies, and another 63% are somewhat or very likely to do so within the next five years.

Executive Dialogue 2019 - Organizational Transformation: Stories, Strategies, Culture and Change

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Transformation is more than change; it is a change that reshapes entire organizations and sectors. The same forces that transformed retail, movies, books, music and the workplace are exerting their power on hospitals and health systems. Health care executives who have led successful transformation shared their stories and advice.

Millennials Speak Up About Their Health Care Expectations

Hospital and health system leaders and their boards continue to wrestle with how to engage millennials (generally regarded as those born between 1981 and 1996) in managing their health. They’re not alone. Many payers, tech companies and others allied to the field also are trying to figure out what this generation wants from health care and how to retain millennials as customers. Two new surveys offer some interesting perspectives.

Storytelling

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Definition: Capture peoples’ imagination and interest by creating a narrative that appeals to the heart (inspiring vision), mind (credible evidence), and how-to (

Pattern Recognition

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Definition: Use inference to look within and beyond the numbers to detect underlying patterns and trends.