The Gifts That The President Gives Us and The Challenge That He Represents to the Triple Aim

The Gifts That The President Gives Us and The Challenge That He Represents to the Triple Aim

by | Feb 27, 2018 | Innovation, Politics, Social Determinants of Health, Strategy, Tax Reform and Healthcare, The Triple Aim

The foundational fairy tale that Michael Wolff tells us in his bestseller, Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House, is that the president and none of his campaign staff, except Steve Bannon, ever thought he would win and did not prepare for the possibility of...

Beyond Silver Bullets: Embracing Era 3 of Healthcare

by | Feb 13, 2018 | Era 3: the moral era, Healthcare Transformation, Improving the health of the poor, Lean, patient centered care, Population Health Management, Process Improvement, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim

Zeev Neuwirth, Senior Medical Director of Population Health at Carolinas Healthcare System Medical Group, and an old friend and former colleague, launched a weekly podcast last August entitled, Creating a New Healthcare. I love the recurrent introduction that  Zeev...
It’s Getting Harder Faster Than You Realize

It’s Getting Harder Faster Than You Realize

by | Feb 6, 2018 | Costs, Delivery, Health in America, healthcare finance, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Lean, patient centered care, Sustainability, The Triple Aim

In last week’s post, I tried to reconstruct the thinking of the Atrius Health management team in early 2008.  At that time we were writing a new strategic plan to respond to the uncertain future of healthcare. Over the previous decade publications like To Err is Human...