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Kaiser Is Acquiring Geisinger. As M&A Activity Accelerates, Making These Leadership Mistakes Can Quickly End Them
The flurry of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in healthcare delivery only continues to accelerate. Last month alone, there were some 15 M&A transactions.
Healthcare Systems Are Rebranding. Is It A Real Pivot Or Old Wine, Just In New Bottles?
If the industry is serious about better health outcomes at lower total cost of care, it needs more than a rebranding exercise. It needs to redefine the underlying business model.
‘Houston, We Have A Problem’: Abandoning Their Mission, Nonprofit Hospitals Have Veered Far Off Course
Nonprofit hospitals account for almost 60% of all hospitals in the U.S., and are granted certain federal, state and local tax exemptions. Despite these lucrative tax breaks, data and other in-depth reporting reporting show that many of these nonprofits…
Healthcare Executives Fail To Grasp That Getting To Population Health Requires An Entirely New, Patient-Centered, Model
Population health is a necessary component to fix our failing fee-for-service system. But like a sand crab trying to inch its way across the beach in order to get to the ocean, healthcare executives are moving more sideways than toward the ocean.
In Another Blow To A Healthcare Delivery Industry In Cardiac Arrest, Amazon Just Closed A Blockbuster Deal With One Medical
This latest incursion from retail disruptors is continued bad news for a broken U.S. healthcare delivery system that not only continues to fail in a big way, and on every level, but has historically been loath to pivot to a new delivery model defined b…
Healthcare Delivery Is Sending Primary Care Physicians To The Sidelines. That Leaves A Bad Prognosis For An Aging, Unhealthy Nation
Having a relationship with your physician, and knowing they have a history with you, makes all the difference. But in today’s system, doctors are prevented from doing their number one job, even though their behavior and approach is exactly what’s neede…
If You Don’t Know What Your Health Care Costs, It’s Time To Speak Up And Ask A Doctor
To quote the legendary reggae singer Bob Marley: “Get up, stand up. Stand up for your right.” If more patient-consumers start adopting this line of thinking, healthcare delivery organizations will have no choice but to start acting in their best intere…
U.S. Healthcare Delivery Is In Critical Condition But Failure Is Not An Option. What’s Next?
While signs of a new market-based model, defined by greater accountability, payment connected to outcomes and greater transparency in cost and quality, are afoot, this can only be fully realized if delivery organizations pivot in a way that puts the pa…
A Dire Forecast Lies Ahead For U.S. Healthcare Delivery In Distress, And Change Isn’t Waiting For A Sinking Ship To Right Itself
As patient frustrations mount, they, along with disruptors and even the government, are not waiting around for a sinking ship to right itself. Change in healthcare delivery will continue to accelerate, and that’s a good thing. But we can only plug the …
CMS Has The Clout To Significantly Improve Health Care Delivery, But Fearing Political And Legal Backlash Has Settled Instead For Band-Aids
There are a lot of sheriffs in the wild, wild west of healthcare delivery, all digging in to protect their own interests. Getting to a new value-based model will require hard work and introspection from all stakeholders to fundamentally change the way …
