To integrate or innovate?

Becker's Hospital Review—January 24, 2017

Leonard Achan, RN, MA, ANP, chief innovation officer and senior vice president of innovation and business development at HSS, writes a bylined piece for Becker's Hospital Review on innovation and integration.

He writes that providers must innovate even as they integrate. 

"The fact is, the entrepreneurial community has become both an asset — providing solutions that help hospitals provide better care — as well as a threat, as they continually chip away at the core revenue streams that providers have traditionally relied upon. For the stability of their businesses, hospitals need to prioritize innovation to drive value for patients while creating new streams of income. Hospital executives must ask themselves, 'Can I afford not to innovate?'"

Read the full article at BeckersHospitalReview.com.