Archive For: Commentaries

The Future of Hospitals in Post-COVID America (2-Part Series)

This series examines how market forces are consolidating, rationalizing and redistributing acute care assets within the broader industry… Read More

By David W. Johnson September 29, 2020

COVID-19

COVID-19 Fans Flames of Consumerism in Patients

I watched an interview online yesterday with the director of emergency services at a health system in North… Read More

By David Burda September 29, 2020

Avoid Becoming an IT Dinosaur

Please welcome Ed Marx as 4sight Health’s newest guest columnist. Ed is among the nation’s most respected health… Read More

By Edward W. Marx September 24, 2020

Economics

Looking for the Right Prescription to Regulate State Drug Markets

Of all the sectors of the healthcare industry, the one I know the least about is the pharmaceutical… Read More

By David Burda September 23, 2020

COVID-19

Where Have All the Patients Gone? The Art and Soul of Recapturing Lost Treatment Volume

On a plane trip to Oberlin College in October 1955, singer Pete Seeger wrote the first three verses… Read More

By Scot Latimer and David W. Johnson September 21, 2020

Economics

What Pandemic? Investors Love Hotspotting 2.0

Key Takeaways Investors expressed confidence in Oak Street Health’s model for caring for high-cost, low-income patients by sending… Read More

By Merrill Goozner September 16, 2020

COVID-19

How to Build Safer Streets for Everyone

Almost everyone agrees that where one lives has more influence on one’s life experience and expectancy than any… Read More

By Allen Weiss September 15, 2020

Economics

A Pandemic Induced Collapse of the Way We Pay for Healthcare

For many segments of the economy the long-term consequences of the pandemic remain unknown. But for healthcare, there… Read More

By David Shulkin and Kerry Weems September 9, 2020

Innovation

If Outcomes Matter, Then Start Paying Doctors to Use Clinical Decision Support Tools

No one likes to be told what to do. If there was a club for people who don’t… Read More

By David Burda September 4, 2020

Commentaries