Category: Policy

How Can Healthcare Avoid Screwing Up AI’s Potential?

“Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I’m entitled to an answer to… Read More

By David Burda March 2, 2020

Becoming One Nation Against COVID-19

COVID-19 is now the nation’s leading cause of death. [1] Hospitals and healthcare workers are stretched to and… Read More

By David W. Johnson March 1, 2020

Economics

How Fee-for-Service Makes Doctors Choose Poorly

It’s not complicated. If you want doctors to stop performing or ordering low-value procedures and tests, stop paying… Read More

By David Burda February 27, 2020

Consumerism

Advancing Advance Care Plans through Medicare: It’s Time to Move

American culture and politics make little room for honest discussions about death and dying. Healthcare thought leader Ian… Read More

By Kerry Weems and David W. Johnson February 24, 2020

Economics

Status Quo vs. Revolutionary Healthcare

As the presidential elections approach this year, each candidate is still struggling to convince the American people that… Read More

By David W. Johnson February 21, 2020

Chadwick Annual Synthesis: A Look Inside

(from Taking Healthcare’s Pulse: 4sight Health’s 2020 J.P. Morgan Conference Report) Chadwick Annual Synthesis: A Look Inside J.P…. Read More

By Edward Chadwick and David W. Johnson February 17, 2020

JPM’20 – Much Ado About Nothing

(from Taking Healthcare’s Pulse: 4sight Health’s 2020 J.P. Morgan Conference Report) Each year on the second Sunday in… Read More

By John Moore and David W. Johnson February 6, 2020

Economics

Fun with Fraud Numbers

I’ve watched enough crime movies and TV shows to know that the law enforcement character who talks tough… Read More

By David Burda February 5, 2020

Economics

Healthcare’s Epic Problem & the Audacity of Liberating Patient Data

The gloves are off and the big guns are out. Epic Systems Corporation, the nation’s largest EHR vendor,… Read More

By David W. Johnson February 3, 2020

Policy