It’s Not An Easy Ride To The Future On The Magic Carpet of Innovation
Recently I had the opportunity to attend an annual innovation event for about seventy healthcare leaders, entrepreneurs, policy experts, and innovators from around the country. My expectation was that there would be some discussion of trends, new ideas and the...
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...
Long-Term Care Costs
I like to believe that I’m too young to think about who will take care of me when I’m old and frail and can no longer prepare my own meals, bathe myself, or even tie my own shoes. But my father’s personal narrative has taught me to plan ahead: I now have an advance...
Foundational Principles for the Future of Care Delivery
How will the way we deliver care in ten years be similar to the way deliver care today and how will the future be different? One thing that is already in transition is the expectation of patients. Patients want a more “horizontal” and collaborative connection with...
Choices: Understanding Risk, Loss, Persuasion and Compulsion in Healthcare
My wife had a simple mantra that she repeated each time our boys left the house to go out with their friends. She would say, “Make good choices!”. Her inference was that there was loss associated with bad choices. Never before have patients, families, doctors, other...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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