Healthcare Musings For June 14, 2024

Healthcare Musings For June 14, 2024

by | Jun 14, 2024 | A personal history, AI in healthcare, Atrius Health, Computers In Healthcare, Consolidation in healthcare, Dartmouth Health, Epic, Featured Post, Global Warming, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Judy Faulkner, Lean, Mergers and Acquisitions, Optum Health, patient centered care, Practice Improvement, The Triple Aim, UnitedHealtcare

June 14, 2024 Dear Interested Readers,   Reflections On This Moment In Healthcare   When I began to write these Friday letters sixteen years ago in mid-February 2008,  it was much easier than my task now. All I needed to do then to discover plenty to write...
If Innovation Is the Answer, Do You Know What You Need To Know?

If Innovation Is the Answer, Do You Know What You Need To Know?

by | May 1, 2018 | Featured Post, Innovation, Innovation in Healthcare, Mergers and Acquisitions, Process Improvement, the power of stories

“Innovation” is frequently offered as the “way out of the woods” for American healthcare. And why not? As Americans we are reminded of the power of innovation to reshape our world many times a day as we tap on our cell phones to find our way through traffic to a place...
Are Consolidation, Competition, and Innovation the Answer? Part 3: A Closer Look at Consolidation

Are Consolidation, Competition, and Innovation the Answer? Part 3: A Closer Look at Consolidation

by | Sep 5, 2017 | ACA, Consolidation in healthcare, Costs, Featured Post, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Lean, Mergers and Acquisitions, The Triple Aim

Consolidations, affiliations, acquisitions and mergers in healthcare are announced every week. The picture associated with this posting reveals that an affiliation occurred a few years ago between the critical access hospital in my little town and the Dartmouth...