上个月, members of 心电图’s 高级肿瘤中心 attended the Association of Cancer Executives (ACE) Annual Meeting and the Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC) Annual Meeting and Business Summit. These national events bring together oncology industry leaders to share insights on the trends shaping cancer care delivery in the US market. The meetings focused on a cancer care landscape that is continuously evolving, 受技术进步的驱动, 治疗的创新, 不断增长的患者访问需求, 以及其他消费者驱动的趋势.
Below are six topics from this year’s meetings that stood out to us.
1. 获得高质量护理
人口老龄化的结合, 越来越多的消费, and workforce shortages continues to put a spotlight on patient access. Oncology care providers are looking for new ways to enhance convenience and accessibility for patients seeking diagnostic and treatment services.
The diagnostic clinic concept presented at the ACE meeting by the Ohio State University's James Cancer Center is a prime example of innovative patient access solutions in oncology care. The James Cancer Diagnostic Center was piloted in 2023 to address pent-up service demand coming out of the pandemic. The new clinic offers streamlined scheduling, 快速诊断测试, and telemedicine options to improve timely access to cancer screenings and evaluation results, ultimately leading to earlier detection and interventions to benefit patients.
2. 以病人为中心的护理
Organizations that prioritize the patient experience are poised to become the providers of choice. Patients increasingly want to be engaged in their cancer treatment decisions expectations. Several sessions at ACE showcased patient navigation programs as a model for providing personalized, 为患者提供全面的支持资源, 改善健康结果, and addressing patients’ social-emotional well-being.
3. 技术进步
Technological advancements are revolutionizing cancer care delivery. 特别是, the implementation of precision medicine and personalized treatment approaches, 比如人工智能平台, was highlighted as a key strategy to optimize treatment plans and improve patient 结果. 另外, the use of virtual reality for patient education and symptom management was identified as a promising tool to enhance the patient experience.
4. 细胞治疗的扩展
Adoption of cellular therapy treatment is likely to increase over the next few years. There is a booming field within this segment of cancer care and vast opportunities for therapeutic advances capable of changing the paradigm of cancer treatment. But for all the promise cellular therapy shows, successfully operationalizing these programs continues to be a challenge for many provider organizations. 了解CAR-T项目的发展, 报销, site-of-care细微差别, and so forth will be key to unlocking the potential of these treatments.
5. 社区参与预防癌症
Cancer centers are developing creative models that push traditional thinking in cancer-related community outreach and engagement. We saw numerous examples of targeted screening programs and personalized risk assessments tailored to address specific populations’ unmet needs or health disparity gaps. Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center is a pioneer in this space, 在ACCC, 请看Austin-Duffin, Vice President of Cancer Support and Outreach, spoke to the center’s portfolio of community and corporate programs, each demonstrating positive impacts on cancer education and prevention.
Discussions in this area are sure to intensify over the coming years, given the consequential impacts of delayed cancer screening stemming from the pandemic and the NCI’s latest priorities related to improving health disparities in cancer treatment.
6. 以价值为本的护理转变
The continued shift toward value-based payment models (emphasizing quality metrics, 结果, and patient satisfaction) is reshaping oncology 报销. Bundled payment programs for cancer care services are gaining momentum in select markets, such as the 2024 initiative launched by the Cleveland Clinic, designed to incentivize providers for delivering coordinated and efficient care while also prioritizing cost-effective treatment options for patients. Such reforms are driving improvements in care delivery and financial sustainability for cancer providers.
我们的印象
这并不奇怪, 尽管如此,还是很引人注目, to see how closely the key themes at the ACE and ACCC meetings paralleled the conversations we’ve been having with our clients. So many of our recent oncology engagements focused on improving patient access, navigating technological and therapeutic advancements, evaluating and implementing cellular therapy programs, 和更多的. With demand for cancer services expected to grow in the next decade, it’s clear that organizations are determined to find innovative ways to provide care that is affordable, 可访问的, 而且非常有效.
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编辑:马特·马斯林
出版于2024年3月15日