Today’s healthcare industry is still suffering from a material disconnect between the patients, care providers, as well as executives, and other leaders who help run the industry. As more and more corporate interests are becoming involved, we are seeing the healthcare industry re-examine and hopefully reaffirm its original intention: to serve the community. Thankfully, innovations like SCALE Healthcare’s SCALE Community are paving the way for a healthcare industry that expands on its community-focused roots, bringing all parties together to find optimal solutions that create opportunities for input and collaboration from many interested parties – how do we build a healthcare industry that benefits us all?
The SCALE Community is a new concept by SCALE Healthcare that is the first modern healthcare network for all healthcare professionals. The goal is for the SCALE Community to allow a diverse group of healthcare leaders and stakeholders to share ideas in a way that will facilitate an approach to healthcare that is more coordinated and community-driven. Healthcare leaders eligible to become SCALE Community members include Management Service Organization (MSO) executives and physicians, health system leaders, the investment community, and payor management.
Bringing healthcare leaders together to share knowledge
According to SCALE Healthcare co-founder and CEO Roy Bejarano, the SCALE Community is “the first and only healthcare association that reaches out to all traditional healthcare industry constituents for group membership, participation, and knowledge sharing.” This will allow them to replace the factionalized, often vulcanized nature of healthcare today, which separates the clinical professionals who provide the care from those executives who focus on the business of healthcare, allowing the industry to progress towards a more collaborative form of care.
Bejarano and his team at SCALE believe the SCALE Community will have a profound and lasting impact on the healthcare industry. In addition to bringing industry leaders together across disciplines, the SCALE Community will bring to the limelight important knowledge that could help change decision-making for the better. Furthermore, it will empower leaders to move towards healthcare delivery and ownership models that are more advantageous for everyone, from providers to patients. Bejarano offered the following thought “there are clearly alternative forms of ownership across healthcare, from private equity to non-profit health systems to independent small, medium, and large independent practices, and everything in-between, why not examine the strengths and weaknesses of each while recognizing that choice can be very good for an industry still exploring ways to improve outcomes?”
The sense of cohesion and coordination offered by the SCALE Community will allow healthcare professionals to come together to understand, react to, and solve many of the problems that plague the healthcare community at large. The impending growth of factors like private equity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and retail franchises — not to mention the growing physician shortage — are set to change the way business is managed in healthcare completely. As such, leaders in the healthcare industry have struggled to understand what the future holds for healthcare.
Creating the future of healthcare together
For healthcare professionals, the benefit of becoming a SCALE Community member is obvious: gaining access to a network of like-minded industry leaders working together towards the common goal of improving the healthcare industry. “The SCALE Community is already the best place for healthcare professionals to turn to for broad, holistic insights,” says Bejarano. “We will continue to develop best-in-class tools, content, and knowledge-sharing opportunities that cannot be found anywhere else. We are only getting started here and can’t wait for what’s to come in terms of new features.”
It is with this philosophy that the SCALE Community hopes to become an invaluable resource for the healthcare community. If the impact they have already had is any indication, this goal certainly isn’t out of reach for them.
“Since its launch, SCALE Healthcare has committed to sharing the knowledge it gains as the country’s leading healthcare consulting company with its broader community of constituents across the industry through SCALE Community,” Bejarano remarks. “SCALE Healthcare is uniquely positioned to create a richer, safer, more impactful environment for us all to strengthen our individual impact on our industry. We have had a very strong response from the market to our launch, with +5k healthcare executive visitors to the Scale Community site in the first two weeks alone.”
For healthcare professionals who hope to be ahead of the curve and be part of the paradigm shift in the healthcare industry, the SCALE Community represents an amazing opportunity to connect with other revolutionary thinkers and industry leaders who want to come together and make a difference in the world. The future of healthcare is up to all of us who live within its community.
