Exploring the Top Five Challenges Healthcare Executives Are Facing
Recently I gave an overview of the issues that would face nonprofit boards with a tongue in cheek concept or prediction that I called the “Quadruple Challenge Plus One”. I introduced the idea by saying: Looking into the future for all boards and management teams I can...
It Will Be a Challenging Future For Nonprofit Healthcare Boards
When I joined the Harvard Community Health Plan board in1990, the Chairman was a very wise and experienced executive from Federated Department Stores, Maurice Lazarus. “Moogie” as he preferred to be called,  projected a throwback image to another day when wise and...
Finding Strategy After Tragedy
Before Orlando I had not thought about gun violence in the same way I think of other public health hazards. My response to such an outrageous and seemingly avoidable disaster was to advocate that the only appropriate response would be to remove guns from our society...
Comments on the Future of Practice
As we peer into the future and ponder what lies ahead for the practice of medicine we can be sure that the answer will vary across the spectrum of practice. To examine the potential changes for every type of practice would require a very extensive effort. If we focus...
Envisioning Tomorrow’s Better Patient Experience
It is always difficult to think about the future. Will it be more of the same, a great leap forward, or a big step backward? Can we see something inevitable on the horizon? Is there something that will be totally unexpected like 9/11 that leads to big surprises? As is...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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