This is a letter I sent to Gary Cohn, appointed by President Trump to head the National Economic Council and, among other things, come up with a plan for reforming healthcare. Formerly president of Goldman Sachs, Cohn may be a wizard at finance, but healthcare...
I just published this Big Think post on Medium.com, because it’s time for more people, not just the choir, to understand what’s going on in healthcare. We’ve all got to stop asking the wrong questions about healthcare – who pays for it –...
Healthcare costs too much, and we don’t get enough of the healthcare that we need. This is our core problem in one word: “productivity.” The obvious difficulties of healthcare in the U.S., where we can’t seem to take care of everyone, millions are saddled with...
The double doors to the ambulance bay slide open, and one more patient on a gurney is hauled across the threshold of your Emergency Department. This one’s in diabetic shock. Stop the picture right there and ask yourself: Is this a medical success, because you can do...
In Des Moines, brides are posing in the spring sun under the profusion of flowering trees in the Arboretum and families are strolling the path around Gray’s Lake. Up in the cavernous Veterans Memorial Convention Center, UnityPoint is wrapping up its Leadership...
The ginormous spring HIMSS (Health Information and Management Systems Society) meeting is ending. The big big subject this year? Interoperability — the ability of different systems to link up, transfer data, and actually operate through each other. Here’s why...
