Health System Core Competencies Guide
Supporting the Development of Your Health System’s Digital Strategy for Improving Equity in Access to Cancer Treatment and Reducing Patient Financial Toxicity
Healthcare executives and clinical decision makers should use this web tool to develop and advance digital strategies.
Each competency in this guide supports the implementation of a digital strategy, as part of a broader strategy, to improve equity in access to cancer care and reduce out-of-pocket cost for patients.
Customize Core Competency Implementation Based on Your System’s Priorities And Readiness
- Digital health solution acquisition and roll-out described in the Core Competencies is intended to support existing health system priorities, strategy, and key performance indicators
- These competencies are adjustable based on system priorities and infrastructure readiness and effective in producing better access and cost outcomes for patients even when implemented separately
If you are a Digital Health Division leader, Oncology Service Line leader, or a cancer care provider at a health system, you can leverage this core competencies guide to:
Design a digital strategy to improve equity and reduce financial toxicity
Define and measure successful implementation of your digital strategy, as part of your broader business strategy.
Choose fit-for-purpose digital solutions from the market to implement your digital strategy.
- Expedite time to diagnosis & treatment
- Expand care footprint
- Extend clinical research opportunities
- Bridge the digital divide
- Digitize health related social needs screening
- Automate connections to financial support services
- Leverage technology for patient engagement on cost of care
- Adapt existing health system technology infrastructure
- Empower cancer care providers
- Engage health system staff in team-based care
- Tailor digital patient & caregiver education
- Integrate technology & culturally sensitive care
- Connect patients to psychosocial support
- Expedite time to diagnosis & treatment
- Expand care footprint
- Extend clinical research opportunities
- Bridge the digital divide
- Digitize health related social needs screening
- Automate connections to financial support services
- Leverage technology for patient engagement on cost of care
- Adapt existing health system technology infrastructure
- Empower cancer care providers
- Engage health system staff in team-based care
- Tailor digital patient & caregiver education
- Integrate technology & culturally sensitive care
- Engage health system staff in team-based care
