You can hone your crystal ball–gazing skills to better forecast healthcare trends. The best forecasters read widely about all kinds of developments, even about trends that have nothing to do with their fields of expertise. You need to become a better futurist. You...
Are you ready? Here it is: We don’t know. You don’t know. Nobody knows. In fact, Trump doesn’t know. And this is not a criticism, at least not exactly. It’s more an observation of his style, of what makes Trump tick. A mad-for-Bernie friend, just yesterday, said to...
It was the Mother of unintended consequences. By the time of the 2016 elections, health plans, hospitals and health systems had squeezed and consolidated and trimmed and cut costs under the gun of lower Medicare reimbursements and the new rules of Obamacare — but...
A primer for tactical decision-making in times of deep change. The problem at the core of the “volume to value” movement, the shoals it is running aground on, is this: How do you make it work economically? How does your organization make a living at it? To put a finer...
