(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...
The new hospital you’re planning may quickly become obsolete. It’s time to rethink the need for hospital care. What you think becomes brick. What you imagine becomes steel and glass. Across health care, organizations are changing shape, consolidating,...
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 progeny of the iPhone and the iPad will change the shape of your institution — and your balance sheet. One of the more striking images to me, out of the online spew from the inauguration of 2012, was a wide view of an inaugural ball. There was the president...
