Category: Outcomes

Economics

The Real Reason Insurance Companies Won’t Pay for That Breakthrough Drug

The answer to the question posed in the headline is money. Health insurers don’t want to pay for… Read More

By David Burda March 29, 2023

Steve Klasko is Feelin’ Alright

In the summer of 2022, Steve Klasko asked me to write a preface for “Feelin’ Alright,” his book… Read More

By David W. Johnson March 23, 2023

Podcast: Overdue Medical Bills and Credit Scores 3/23/23

How much do patients owe, who do they owe it to, who’s trying to collect it and how… Read More

By David Burda March 23, 2023

Economics

Hospitals Posted Record Profit Margins?

To answer the question in the headline, which I haven’t seen anywhere yet, is yes. Yes they did…. Read More

By David Burda March 22, 2023

Confessions of a Former Chief Strategy Officer (Part 1)

Editor’s note: This is Part 1 in a series on strategy in healthcare. Read Part 2 here. When… Read More

By Dr. Carladenise Edwards March 21, 2023

Reimagining Healthcare Staffing: Partnership-Focused, Data-Informed, Nurse-Centric

In 2006, Warren Buffett quipped that, “GM is a health and benefits company with an auto company attached.”… Read More

By David W. Johnson March 16, 2023

Outcomes

Delivery Failures and Nursing Burden (Part 1): It’s Worse Than You Think

This is Part 1 of a series on nursing burdens. In the follow-up piece, 4sight Health’s David W…. Read More

By David W. Johnson and Jake Crampton March 2, 2023

Outcomes

Podcast: Time to Break the Primary Care Mold 3/2/23

A spate of reports on primary care all point to the failures of the current primary care system… Read More

By David Burda March 2, 2023

Old vs. New Medicine: It’s Time to Topple the Hierarchy

In 2007, Donald Berwick and his colleagues at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement introduced the concept of healthcare’s… Read More

By David W. Johnson and David B. Nash, MD, MBA February 21, 2023

Outcomes