Being against Obamacare has been the keystone, the capstone, the mighty sledgehammer, the massive metaphor of your choice for the right for five years now. They couldn’t stop it from being passed. They couldn’t stop it at the Supreme Court. They...
(Originally published in Hospitals & Health Networks Daily 3/25/14) The conversation has changed. The old conversation: “You cost too much.” “But we have these sunk costs, patients who can’t pay…” “Okay, how about a little less, then?” The new conversation: “You...
Hospitals need to overhaul their processes so they can help the un- and under-insured stay healthy. Many people running health care institutions tell me that they have been fighting the fight, learning to be nimble, transforming their cultures, making big changes as...
If you don’t have a structured way of driving your choices through the four Ts — transparency, targeting, trust, and trim — you’re headed for T as in trouble. These four key dimensions have two things in common. One is trivial: They all start with T. The other is...
The Next Health Care calls for very different strategies and tool sets. Many systems are acting as if they read a manual on how to do it wrong. How many of these critical strategic and tactical mistakes is your system making? So I was beta testing FutureSearch, this...
The very forces creating a better, cheaper and more available health care industry also can be used to create monopolies, raise costs and degrade care. Which future strategic model will prevail? Rapid change is engulfing health care across the United States, but the...
