Category: Outcomes

Culture Change Isn’t a Natural for Healthcare Organizations

“We must begin by asking it, ‘What is losing?’ Losing is a disease. As contagious as polio. Losing… Read More

By David Burda April 18, 2019

Opioid Variations and State Interventions

Like companies in any other industry, when providers misbehave, it opens the door to state regulation of their… Read More

By David Burda March 28, 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

Outcomes

MARKET CORNER CONVERSATIONS: Dr. Jonathan M. Zenilman, Johns Hopkins University

Hear how Dr. Zenilman’s residency at Kings College Hospital in the early 1980s, at the epicenter of the… Read More

By David W. Johnson March 20, 2019

Consumerism

The Strained Relationship Between Doctors and Patients – Burda on Healthcare

What if you walked into your doctor’s office and there was a sign hanging in the waiting room… Read More

By David Burda March 19, 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

Outcomes

How to Provide Value-Based Care to Drive Customer Engagement

“Dr. Knows Best” is no longer the only sell healthcare companies can make to consumers. In post-reform healthcare,… Read More

By David W. Johnson March 11, 2019

Outcomes

Shining a Light on the High Risks of Low-Value Care

Low-value care doesn’t just drive up healthcare costs without providing any discernable medical benefit to patients. It can… Read More

By David Burda March 7, 2019

Outcomes