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Economics
Forced Resignations at NCH Healthcare System Expose Medicine’s Dark Side
An ongoing feud between independent physicians and hospital administrators in Naples, Florida, exploded last month, damaging the trust… Read More
By February 12, 2019
Consumerism
An Unbearable Burden: Paying for Commercial Health Insurance
The Healthcare Affordability Index (the Index) is a simple and powerful metric for assessing the impact of rising… Read More
By February 5, 2019
Economics
After the Breakups: Big Payers Find Vertical Love in New Faces
In rapid succession at the end of 2018, CVS closed its $70 billion acquisition of Aetna and Cigna… Read More
By and January 29, 2019
Consumerism
When the Price Is Right: Aligning Payment with Health System Transformation
In 1952 at the tender age of 25, Elizabeth became the Queen of England upon the death of… Read More
By and January 15, 2019
Innovation
Getting Precise about Precision Medicine: Balancing Hope, Potential and Cost
Definitions of precision medicine are anything but precise. For seriously ill patients and their families, precision medicine therapies… Read More
By and January 8, 2019
Policy
Eisenhower’s Prophecy: The Healthcare Industrial Complex®
On January 17, 1961, three days before leaving office, Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke to the nation one last… Read More
By December 19, 2018
Innovation
Frontline Decisions in Real Time: What Health Systems Can Learn from the U.S. Military’s Defeat of Al Qaeda in Iraq
“The teams were operating independently—like workers in an efficient factory—while trying to keep pace with an interdependent environment…. Read More
By and December 12, 2018
Economics
Brand-Heavy and Asset-Light: Moving Beyond the Acute-Care Mindset
For health systems, the day of reckoning is near. A recent Morgan Stanley report states that over 1,000… Read More
By and November 14, 2018
Innovation
No Time to Waste: Revolutionizing Healthcare Data Collection, Curation and Application
Healthcare data wants to be free, but it is oppressed. Entrenched oligarchs trap information within closed, centralized systems… Read More
By October 24, 2018
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