Archive For: Market Corner Commentaries

Health Tech to the Rescue: Combatting COVID-19 with Virtual Care and Predictive Analytics

With stunning swiftness, COVID-19 knocked America’s healthcare delivery system to its knees. A month into the crisis, normal… Read More

By Jill Frew and David W. Johnson April 21, 2020

Now Is The Time. Time To Reconfigure Routine Care.

In our recent article we identified the following five margin pressures that are coalescing to drive more value… Read More

By Jeff Jones and David W. Johnson April 8, 2020

Why Strategic Partnerships Are Vital To Hospital and Health Systems Success

In our January 9th, 2020, Market Corner Commentary we identified the following five forces that are coalescing to… Read More

By Jeff Jones and David W. Johnson March 11, 2020

Consumerism

Advancing Advance Care Plans through Medicare: It’s Time to Move

American culture and politics make little room for honest discussions about death and dying. Healthcare thought leader Ian… Read More

By Kerry Weems and David W. Johnson February 24, 2020

Economics

Widen the Funnel and Close the Gaps: The Summit-CityMD Combo Sees “Big Apple” Opportunity through Integrated Care Delivery

Private equity-funded delivery models are emerging to create more integrated care models that position well for value-based contracting…. Read More

By Carsten Beith and David W. Johnson February 12, 2020

Taking Healthcare’s Pulse: 4sight Health’s 2020 J.P. Morgan Conference Report

Each year on the second Sunday in January, the healthcare world descends on San Francisco for the J.P…. Read More

By David W. Johnson, Edward Chadwick and John Moore February 6, 2020

Healthcare Has No Clothes: J.P. Morgan 2020

(from Taking Healthcare’s Pulse: 4sight Health’s 2020 J.P. Morgan Conference Report) Each year on the second Sunday in… Read More

By David W. Johnson February 6, 2020

Economics

Healthcare’s Epic Problem & the Audacity of Liberating Patient Data

The gloves are off and the big guns are out. Epic Systems Corporation, the nation’s largest EHR vendor,… Read More

By David W. Johnson February 3, 2020

Economics

Unrelenting Margin Pressures: Overcoming Healthcare’s Softening Revenues and Rising Expenses

Key Takeaways: Despite favorable rating agency outlooks, the 2020s promise to be healthcare’s most turbulent decade since the… Read More

By Jeff Jones and David W. Johnson January 9, 2020

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