Markets

Points of Convergence

Value-Based Strategies™ focuses on tech-enabled breakthroughs, best practices, and benchmarks at the convergence of three markets:

  • Healthcare
  • Education
  • Social Services

Where these three markets converge, disruptive forces create new revenue opportunities, new operational challenges, and new areas of risk. Disruptive forces may include game-changing events (e.g., pandemics), groundbreaking technologies (e.g., CRISPR gene editing techniques), or growth industries (e.g., epigenetics). They may include unexpected developments in sociodemographics; economics; politics, legislation, regulations, or case law; technology; industry dynamics (e.g., Porter’s Five Forces); or resource availability. Whatever their causes, disruptive forces signal a new reality and the end of the status quo.

Preemptive Market Leadership

Our analytics, strategy, and support services help decision-makers like you gain footholds in the dynamic, fast-growing, and lucrative new markets created by disruptive forces; so you and your associates are able to jumpstart business performance and emerge as preemptive market leaders. 

Convergence Markets

Since our specialty is helping clients like you characterize, quantify, and capture new revenue opportunities where markets collide, we have worked on technology-centric projects related to the following:

Macro-Level Enabling Technologies
  • Healthcare Value Chain Reengineering
  • Global Health Information Networks (GHINs), National Health Information Infrastructue and National Health Information Network (NHII/NHIN), Regional Health Information Networks (RHINs), Health Information Exchange (HIE), and Health-Related System Interoperability
  • Public Health Policy, Legislation, and Regulatory Affairs
  • Standard-Setting Organizations (SSOs), Health-Related Data Standards (HRDSs), and Health Information Technology (HIT) Solutions
  • Cloud-Based Healthcare Computing Solutions, Infrastructure-as-a-Service Solutions, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Solutions, Database-as-a-Service (DaaS) Solutions, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Solutions, Application Service Provider (ASP) Solutions, Web Service (WS) Solutions, and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Solutions

Micro-Level Enabling Technologies
  • Human Performance Technology (HPT) Solutions, Human Performance Optimization (HPO) Programs, and Economic Performance Optimization (EPO) Programs
  • Community Operating Systems (e.g., 2-1-1 Services), Emergency Preparedness Solutions, and Community Risk Management Strategies
  • Population Health Management (PHM) Programs, Disease-State Management (DSMs) Programs, and Condition Management Programs (CMPs)
  • Persuasive Technologies, Empowering Technologies, and Social-Benefit Gamification
  • Digital-Health Ecosystems, Virtual Healthcare Systems, Telehealth, e-Visits, Prescription Apps, Mobile Health Apps (mHealth), and Mobile Health Coaching
  • Biopharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, and Hybrid Products
  • Prepackaged Therapeutic Meals, Medical Foods, and Pharmaco-Nutrigenomic Foods
  • Dietary Supplements, Healthy Foods, Functional Foods, and Functional Beverages
  • Ready-Meals, Meal-Kit Home-Delivery Services, and Next-Generation Food Services
Payers, Health Plans, and Benefit Programs
  • Health Plan Sponsors (e.g., Fully Insured Employers) and Healthcare Purchasers (e.g., Self-Funded/Self-Insured Employers and Unions)
  • Third-Party Payers (TPPs) and Third-Party Administrators (TPAs), Idemnity Plans, Managed Care Plans, and Consumer-Driven Health Plans (CDHPs)
  • Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs), Exclusive Provider Organizations (EPOs), and Point of Service (POS) Plans
  • Prevention Programs, Nutrition Programs, Fitness Programs, and Other Wellness-Focused Community-Care Programs
  • Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), Health Risk Assessment (HRA) Programs, Health and Wellness (H&W) Programs
Healthcare Supply Chain and Healthcare Delivery Enterprises
  • Healthcare Supply Chain Management
  • Hospitals, Health Systems, Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
  • Wholesalers, Distributors, and Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs)
  • Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs), Primary Care Super Clinics (PCSCs), and Centers of Excellence (COEs)
  • Alternative and Subacute Care Settings Including Home Healthcare (HHCs, Outpatient Facilities, and Senior Living and
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), Integrative Healthcare (IHC), and Functional Medicine
  • Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs), Long-Term Care (LTC) Facilities, Active Adult Communities (AACs)
  • Home- and Community-Based Service (HCBS) Programs, Aging in Place (AIP) Programs, and Service-Enriched Condos (SECs)
Strategy, Leadership, and General Management Initiatives
  • Market Research, Management Consulting, and Professional Services
  • Leadership Education, Organizational Development, and Professional Development
  • Digital Strategies, Digital Technologies, and Digital Transformations
  • Business Process Automation and Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
  • Transmedia and Multichannel Content Development and Content Syndication
  • Program Design, Program Development, Program Management, Program Evaluation, and Program Reengineering