I count at least 15 ways to make healthcare better, faster and cheaper for everyone. All of them are about value: finding what works and what doesn't at what price, finding ways for people who use healthcare and whoever pays for it to choose that value, and...
H&HN Weekly 3/3/09I recently spent some time in Gloucester, Mass., watching little boats—the precarious remnants of a once-mighty fishing fleet—toddle in and out of the narrow harbor neck. I thought about the so-called perfect storm, that combination of factors...
The reaction in certain quarters to the healthcare reform provisions of the stimulus bill now clearing Congress lays bare the nature of opposition to the forthcoming fight for real change in healthcare: It will be viciousness at the top of the lungs. It will be...
(From The Physician Executive, Vol. 35 #1, Jan/Feb 2009, pp 50-53) Imagine you are an explorer, scouting out new territory, with the help of a local guide – a mathematically-inclined local guide. You come to a river. You ask whether it can be forded: “How deep is it?”...
This is big! Color me amazed: The principal association of U.S. health plans, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has announced that it will support healthcare reform that would lead to insuring all Americans, on one condition: That all Americans be...
Financial management of healthcare organizations is a highly fraught subject, and has become more so in the past few weeks. How do you run the finances of a big organization when the only measure of the value of your products is the reimbursements you are paid for...
