(Originally published in the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals and Health Networks Daily on July 22, 2014) Healthcare costs far too much. We can do it better for half the cost. But if we did cut the cost in half, we would cut the jobs in half, wipe out...
First published in Hospitals and Health Networks Daily, the online publication of the American Hospital Association, on May 27, 2014. After decades of bravely keeping them at bay, health care is beginning to be overwhelmed by “fast, cheap, and out of control” new...
Being against Obamacare has been the keystone, the capstone, the mighty sledgehammer, the massive metaphor of your choice for the right for five years now. They couldn’t stop it from being passed. They couldn’t stop it at the Supreme Court. They...
(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,...
