Wellbe Announces Webinar on the 10-Year Orthopedics and Spine Forecast

What's in store for the next 10 years of orthopedics and spine service lines?

OrthoServiceLine.com, a free resource to the orthopedic community sponsored by Wellbe, is hosting a complimentary webinar Kristi Crowe, Associate Vice President and Orthopedic service line leader at Sg2, titled “10-Year Orthopedics and Spine Forecast: Factors Impacting Demand.”

Kristi Crowe, Associate Vice President and Orthopedic service line leader at Sg2 will review future demand for orthopedics and spine services nationally, key factors impacting this demand, and opportunities to build your access channels and differentiate your orthopedics and spine services to capture growth.

10-Year Orthopedics and Spine Forecast: Factors Impacting Demand
Date/Time: Thursday, January 15, 2015 1-2PM EST
Cost: Complimentary

OrthoServiceLine.com is a free resource for orthopaedic service line leaders designed to give them actionable insights and ideas to grow and streamline their programs. OrthoServiceLine.com is sponsored by Wellbe, Inc.

About the Speaker:
As a member of Sg2’s Center for Strategic Planning, Kristi Crowe leads Sg2’s intelligence and analytics in orthopedics and works with leadership teams to improve growth and performance across the care continuum. She also leads the development of orthopedics service line–oriented publications and educational offerings and speaks nationally at a variety of physician and health care leadership conferences.

With 18 years of clinical, management, and consulting health care experience, Kristi brings a variety of strategic skills to Sg2, which have included physician alignment strategies, volume growth initiatives, and performance enhancement for orthopedic services.

Before joining Sg2, Kristi worked in orthopedic service line consulting for Accelero Health Partners, a fully owned subsidiary of Zimmer. While at Accelero, Kristi established and executed strategic plans for the musculoskeletal service line and led the organization’s internal spine and outcomes development initiatives. Working as the liaison between hospital administration and physicians, Kristi facilitated completion of higher level physician engagement strategies such as comanagement agreements. Earlier in her career, Kristi worked as a physical therapist in inpatient, outpatient and management positions.

She graduated summa cum laude with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physical therapy from the University of North Dakota.

She is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and American Society for Quality, and maintains her Colorado license to practice physical therapy.

About Wellbe
Wellbe, the inventor of the cloud-based Guided CarePath®, works with health providers to engage patients as partners in their episodes of care. Our Guided CarePaths empower patients to learn and take the actions required to achieve better outcomes at lower costs. High-performing hospitals use Wellbe’s Connected Care solutions to improve the experience and efficiency of helping patients to succeed with their medical treatments and surgeries.