While no longer amazed, I am still amused, when I see job ads for C-level positions requiring NO healthcare experience. Hospitality and aviation come to mind, as industries healthcare organizations and consultants travel to return with great ideas and technologies. One idea and technology that has been widely adopted in most other industries, but not much yet in healthcare, is Business Process Management. I’ve been tracking diffusion of workflow tech, now called BPM, into healthcare for two decades. It’s very much an example of the famous Gibson quite, “The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” Take a look at some of the remarkable statistics achieved by non-healthcare organizations at the recent Appian World conference I attended.
(I don’t think I need to read/type you the slides. If you need to, just click on each to enlarge.)
Replaced 9 core systems in 18 months
— Charles Webster MD ()
Impact At bank… Customer story
— Martijn Schilperoort ()
I grew up on farm. Like workflow/ slides w/ 🙂 Make & model? (I'm drawing a blank)
— Charles Webster MD ()
To sum up this series of 10 reasons why health plans should double-down on modern BPM, take a look at this survey of attendees at a webinar on BPM. I call it a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-distribution. These folks, from a cross-section of industries, were interested in BPM because it promises to allow them to create apps for quickly AND change those apps easily AND integrate those apps with back end enterprise systems AND improve user experience.
Exactly where health plan payer IT needs to go too!
Poll qualities: create/change apps quickly, integrate w/external systems, end-user experience: cc
— Charles Webster MD ()
Process-aware modern Business Process Management is really a paradigm-shift. Health plans, health insurers, health payers, are already early adopters of BPM (compared to healthcare and health IT generally). It’s time to double down. To exploit these early successes by pivoting to even more mission critical AND customer engaging new health plan products and services.
10 Reasons Health Plans Should Double-Down on Modern Business Process Management
- Reason 1: Health Insurance Is About Risk Management: Health Plans Need to Manage Process Risk Too
- Reason 2: Accelerate Development of Innovative Customer-Centric Mobile Health Plan Products
- Reason 3: Systematically Improve Customer Health Plan Member Engagement With New Products
- Reason 4: Integrate Clinical And Financial Health Plan Systems to Provide Unified View Of Data And Workflow
- Reason 5: Maximize Health Plan External and Internal Workflow And Process Transparency
- Reason 6: Enable Health Plan Workflow And Process Changes Necessary For Accountable Care
- Reason 7: Harness Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud-Enabled Health Insurance Application Development Platforms
- Reason 8: Bring Modern BPM’s Unique Value to Member, Provider, Medical, Benefits, and Claims Management
- Reason 9: Leverage Modern BPM for Health Plans in the Regulatory and Compliance Space
- Reason 10: Turbocharge Health Plan Operational Processes With Same BPM So Successfully Used In Other Industries