Archive For: Commentaries

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

Podcast Interview: How Startups Can Create Value as They Navigate Healthcare’s Shift to Risk-Based Models w/ David Johnson

There are record amounts of investment into healthcare and provider-based services – but to get your slice of… Read More

By Alina-Bonn February 20, 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

Economics

Widen the Funnel and Close the Gaps: The Summit-CityMD Combo Sees “Big Apple” Opportunity through Integrated Care Delivery

Private equity-funded delivery models are emerging to create more integrated care models that position well for value-based contracting…. Read More

By Carsten Beith and David W. Johnson February 12, 2020

Lessons Learned: One Health System’s Foray into Service Rationalization

An interview with OhioHealth’s Nikki Ross, System Director of Sterile Processing, on ways service rationalization works in today’s… Read More

By David W. Johnson February 10, 2020

Taking Healthcare’s Pulse: 4sight Health’s 2020 J.P. Morgan Conference Report

Each year on the second Sunday in January, the healthcare world descends on San Francisco for the J.P…. Read More

By David W. Johnson, Edward Chadwick and John Moore February 6, 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

Healthcare Has No Clothes: J.P. Morgan 2020

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

By David W. Johnson February 6, 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

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