Category: System Dynamics

Amplifying Transformation: Addressing Medicare Advantage’s Disadvantages

The U.S. healthcare system will not change the way it delivers care until it changes the way it… Read More

By David W. Johnson November 7, 2018

Pointing the Finger at Health Plans for Providers’ Price Variations

Wide variations in what providers charge for the same medical services are notorious. But providers are not acting… Read More

By David Burda November 6, 2018

Economics

It’s Commercial Health Plans That Are Keeping Fee-for-Service Alive

Far from pulling the plug on fee-for-service medicine, commercial health plans continue to give it CPR. A new… Read More

By David Burda October 31, 2018

Innovation

MARKET CORNER CONVERSATIONS: Mudit Garg, Founder & CEO, Qventus

Mudit Garg, Founder & CEO of Qventus, joins David Johnson for Episode 12 of Market Corner Conversations. Mudit shares… Read More

By David W. Johnson October 29, 2018

Innovation

No Time to Waste: Revolutionizing Healthcare Data Collection, Curation and Application

Healthcare data wants to be free, but it is oppressed. Entrenched oligarchs trap information within closed, centralized systems… Read More

By David W. Johnson October 24, 2018

Innovation

A Concrete Description Of The Cloud

In the simplest terms, cloud computing means storing data and software applications on the Internet, in secure files, then… Read More

By David W. Johnson October 24, 2018

Economics

Study Refocuses ER Coverage Debate on Patients

A new study reminds us that the squabble between providers and payers over coverage of unnecessary emergency room… Read More

By David Burda October 23, 2018

Consumerism

Employees’ Premiums Actually Dropped This Year and Nine Other Untold Employer Health Benefits Stories – Burda on Healthcare

Every picture tells a story. So does every chart in the Kaiser Family Foundation’s annual employer health benefits… Read More

By David Burda October 17, 2018

Consumerism

Reducing Low-Value Care Gets Personal

It’s like FBI profiling but for doctors—doctors who order too many unnecessary diagnostic tests. Researchers from Canada have… Read More

By David Burda October 16, 2018

System Dynamics