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Burda on Healthcare: Forgetting — Or Ignoring — An Important Patient Safety Anniversary
Last month marked an important healthcare anniversary. It was the 25th anniversary of To Err Is Human: Building… Read More
By December 17, 2024
System Dynamics
Social Media’s Assassination of Brian Thompson
Before dawn on Wednesday, December 4, United Healthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson approached the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan… Read More
By December 10, 2024
System Dynamics
Burda on Healthcare: It’s Open Season on Employer Benefits Surveys
It’s that time of year when people choose their health insurance benefits and select a health plan. Not… Read More
By November 12, 2024
Innovation
Getting Retail Primary Care Right: 5 Ways to Fix a Broken Model
Getting a medical checkup the same place you pick up groceries — aka retail primary care — has… Read More
By November 5, 2024
Consumerism
Burda on Healthcare: Rust Never Sleeps. Neither do Healthcare Revolutionaries.
When I was 18, Neil Young and Crazy Horse said rust never sleeps. I took it to mean… Read More
By October 8, 2024
System Dynamics
Mothers Are Suffering, and Healthcare Leaders Are Critical to the Solution
Maternal health in the U.S. is poor and declining. As a healthcare leader, this isn’t news to you…. Read More
By September 17, 2024
Economics
Cain Brothers: Health Systems, Private Equity, and the Government: It’s Complicated
Sometimes a title says it all. The highly respected Kaiser Health News (KHN) launched an investigative series in… Read More
By and September 10, 2024
Consumerism
Burda on Healthcare: The Doctor Is in the House
David W. Johnson, founder and CEO of 4sight Health, likes to say that healthcare will change more in… Read More
By August 27, 2024
System Dynamics
Corporate Takeover Has Not Been Good for Healthcare
Four decades ago, Paul Starr noted in his landmark history of U.S. healthcare, “The Social Transformation of American… Read More
By August 13, 2024
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