The Coming Healthcare Revolution
10 Forces To Cure America’s Health Crisis
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A Treatment Plan for American Healthcare
The Coming Healthcare Revolution: The 10 Forces that Will Cure America’s Health Crisis centralizes the five top-down macro forces and five bottom-up market forces changing healthcare right now, including the aging of America and the disease burden that accompanies it.
Transformational Change Is Here
This book covers what’s driving inevitable change in American healthcare. Demographic determinants, funding fatigue, chronic pandemics — these are happening now. Play offense with powerful market forces like whole health, care migration and empowered caregivers. Learn more about the ten forces.
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The Diagnosis and The Cure
Whole-Person Health
Lower Costs
Better Outcomes
Healthier Populations
Longer Life Expectancy
Access, Equity, Happiness
Play Offense and Win On Consumerism and Value
Healthcare will change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 100. It’s time to keep up or get left using a broken system. Use this book to understand what’s forcing change, and read about successful companies adopting these new strategies. Buy now.
David W. Johnson
CEO, 4sight Health
David W. Johnson launched 4sight Health in 2014 as a boutique healthcare media and advisory company after a long and dynamic investment banking career. 4sight Health operates at the intersection of healthcare economics, policy, strategy, and capital formation. The company’s mantra: Outcomes matter, customers count, and value rules.
Dave is a voluminous reader, speaker, podcaster, lecturer and writer, with expertise in health policy, economics, statistics, behavioral finance, innovation, organizational change, and complexity theory. He is the author of Market vs. Medicine: America’s Epic Fight for Better, Affordable Healthcare (2016) and The Customer Revolution in Healthcare: Delivering Kinder, Smarter, Affordable Care of All (2019). The 2023 documentary American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System features Dave prominently. He also won the 2024 National Silver and 2023 Regional Bronze Azbee Awards for excellence in business journalism.
Dave earned an AB in English Literature from Colgate University and a master’s in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School. He was a Language Arts Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa, where he taught very large (100+ students) classes, coached a championship soccer team and survived a coup.
Dave currently serves on the boards of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and The Community Builders (TCB). He formerly was an Overseer at Harvard Medical School; a Visiting Committee Member at UChicago Harris School of Public Policy and a Board; and Executive Committee and Finance Committee member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Paul Kusserow
Chairman, Former President and CEO Amedisys
Executive Chairman, Unified Woman’s Healthcare
Executive Chairman, Careforth
Paul Kusserow is the Chairman and former President and CEO of Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED), the country’s leading home care company. He is also Executive Chairman of Unified Woman’s Healthcare, a leading woman’s healthcare company; and Careforth, a care enablement company for caregivers in the home. He is a co-founder and Chairman of Healthpilot, a Medicare choice optimization technology company, and an Operating Partner at Ares Management.
Paul started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He started his healthcare career at Tenet Healthcare (NYSE: THC), a leading hospital and ambulatory surgery company, as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Ventures. After Tenet, Paul was the Senior Vice President of Strategy, Business Development and Innovation at Humana (NYSE: HUM), a Fortune 75 healthcare company. Prior to joining Amedisys, Paul was the President and Vice Chairman of Alignment Healthcare (Nasdaq: ALHC), a technology-enabled Medicare Advantage plan in Southern California.
He is a Fellow at the Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation at the Haas School at University of California, Berkeley, and recently was a lecturer at Vanderbilt University.
He is the author of The Anatomy of a Turnaround: Transforming an Organization by Prioritizing People, Performance and Purpose (McGraw Hill, 2023).
Paul serves on the Boards of Scion Health, Purfoods and Matrix Medical Management. He previously served on the Boards of Oak Street Health (NYSE: OSH), New Century Health, Picwell, and Avality, where he served as Chairman.
He graduated with a BA in Religious Studies from Wesleyan University where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, an Olin Fellow, a Brown Scholar, and Student Fellow at the Center for the Humanities. He received an MA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.