Medtechs Must Partner With US Providers As Outcomes Revolution Ramps Up

US hospitals have suddenly started to care economically about the episodes of care that patients receive – an adjustment that requires medtech companies to adapt accordingly. So says ZS Associates in a new report about how companies need to work in step with providers as the transition to outcomes-based care accelerates.

It’s probably a moot point, but history may well show that the element of the US PPACA – the Affordable Care Act of 2010 – that had the most lasting impact was the importance it placed on providers becoming outcomes-focused.

Medtech vendors have been and will continue to be the unintended beneficiaries of this change in orientation away from activity-based payments. Forward-thinking companies have been busy doing a sweep of...

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