Category: Innovation

Patients’ Growing Appetite for New Outpatient Care Models

If you believe in the adage “follow the money,” it would lead you to telemedicine. Analyzing billions of… Read More

By David Burda April 4, 2019

Interoperability Battle Lines: Data Freedom Fighters vs. Entrenched Data Blockers

On a cold Minnesota morning in January 2018, Fairview Health Services CEO James Hereford addressed Twin Cities business… Read More

By David W. Johnson March 26, 2019

Innovation

Why Healthcare is Spinning Its VBR Wheels

It’s like preparing and serving a seven-course meal that your biggest customer ordered only to have the entire… Read More

By David Burda March 21, 2019

Innovation

4 Data Principles Healthcare Companies Need to Advance Care Delivery

What if the healthcare industry could use data as efficiently as Amazon? What if physicians could know the… Read More

By David W. Johnson March 18, 2019

Economics

Why Proponents Are Finding Innovative Health Plan Designs a Hard Sell

When your phone company or your cable provider offers you a new and innovative service plan, your immediate… Read More

By David Burda March 14, 2019

The Big (Tech-Enabled) Shift: Turning Healthcare Consumers into Customers

Consumerism was the hot topic at this year’s HIMSS conference in Orlando and at the JP Morgan conference…. Read More

By David W. Johnson and Jill Frew March 12, 2019

Consumerism

Digital Disillusionment: Are We There Yet?

There are signs that digital health—the promised cure for everything that’s wrong with healthcare—may be slipping into the… Read More

By David Burda February 26, 2019

Everyone Knows What’s Going to Happen in Healthcare in 2019. Do You? – Burda on Healthcare

What’s going to happen in healthcare this year is anyone’s guess. Not really. What’s going to happen in… Read More

By David Burda January 23, 2019

Innovation

Bundled-Pay Evaluation a Study in Hospital Market-Based Behavior

What would you cut out if you suddenly had to reduce your monthly household expenses by 5 percent,… Read More

By David Burda January 8, 2019

Innovation