Are Consolidation, Competition, and Innovation the Answer? Part 2: A Closer Look at Innovation

Are Consolidation, Competition, and Innovation the Answer? Part 2: A Closer Look at Innovation

by | Aug 29, 2017 | Burnout, Competition, Costs, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Innovation, Leadership, Lean, The Triple Aim

“Consolidation, competition, and innovation are the answer to what?”, you might ask. Keeping it simple, I mean the high cost of care and the Triple Aim. To keep it short I could just say, all three will help, but even maximized to the nth degree they will never in and...
Are Consolidation, Competition, and Innovation the Answer? Part 1

Are Consolidation, Competition, and Innovation the Answer? Part 1

by | Aug 22, 2017 | ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Competition, History of Healthcare Reform, Innovation, System Consolidation, The Senate's turn at healthcare reform, The Triple Aim

Are systems consolidation, competition and innovation the triple play that will deliver quality care for everyone at a sustainable cost? Perhaps before we try to answer that question we should avail ourselves of the lessons learned over the efforts of the last fifty...
Getting Beyond Hyperpartisanship on the Road to the Triple Aim

Getting Beyond Hyperpartisanship on the Road to the Triple Aim

by | Aug 15, 2017 | ACO, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, hyperpartisanship, the healthcare debate, The Senate's turn at healthcare reform, The Triple Aim

Last week when I copied and pasted the conclusions in the JAMA article by President Obama I discovered that Google Drive did not know the word “hyperpartisanship.” . Did Google’s ignorance of hyperparisanship suggest that we are experiencing something new?...
What’s Next in the Healthcare Debate?

What’s Next in the Healthcare Debate?

by | Aug 8, 2017 | ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Transformation, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate, The Senate's turn at healthcare reform, The Triple Aim

I was delightfully dazed and confused the morning after Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and John McCain launched us into the next phase of the healthcare debate by giving the ACA a last minute reprieve. In a mix of ecstasy and disbelief I watched the video of John...