IBM’s Watson and the Triple AIM
I recently attended Simpler Consulting’s 11th Annual North America CEO Symposium. Like much of healthcare, Simpler has been a player in a serial process of mergers and acquisitions. Two years ago, Simpler and JWA, another Lean consultancy were acquired by Truven...
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...
“Games” about Volume to Value
Recently I attended a meeting in suburban Washington that was designed as a “war games” exercise to examine strategic moves in the finance of Medicare. The introductory comments to the exercise excited me when I heard that the objective was to understand what CMS...
What You Earn and How Long You Live
I was recently surprised when I received the free publication online from JAMA of the “The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014” by Chetty, et. al. An added bonus to the JAMA paper was the discovery that the New York Times...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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