Leading Health Care’s Transition from the First Curve to the Second Curve

As the payment incentives shift, health care providers must re-orient their core models for business and care delivery. While most continue to operate in the present volume-based environment defined as the first curve, the emerging second curve market will demand performance based on the delivery of value. Progressing from the first curve to the second curve is a vital transition for hospitals and “life in the gap” is something most organizations are trying to figure out.

The 2012 Leadership Summit will address this challenge with industry experts offering strategies for working through a transitional stage while defining the new “second curve” criteria and the organizational re-alignment needed to meet the new requirements.  Emphasis will be placed on approaches for achieving financial sustainability, emerging strategies for clinical integration and care coordination, approaches to deliver greater value through operational excellence, and tools for leveraging information technologies to improve performance.  We’ll also explore the leadership commitment and culture needed to live in the gap and simultaneously prepare an organization to successfully transition to the second curve.