Market Corner Commentaries

Outcomes The winds of post-reform transformation are blowing through healthcare. Long-established health systems confront existential questions: do we buy… Read More

Economics In a March 29th New York Times article, author Elizabeth Rosenthal chronicles America’s dystopian system for coding and… Read More

Outcomes by Kristin Carey and David W. Johnson Competitive markets drive innovations in business efficiency and strategy. Twenty-five years… Read More

Policy Special Edition: Market Corner Commentary for March 29, 2017 Last Friday was supposed to be the shootout at… Read More

Consumerism In late January, I participated in an Oxford-style debate regarding whether healthcare is a commodity. The debate was… Read More

Outcomes Climbing the highest mountains requires organization, preparation and strategy. Scaling Mt. Everest is a full-scale expedition. Large teams… Read More

Innovation For the better part of a decade, I practiced inpatient hospital medicine at a large academic center (the… Read More

Innovation Insourcing is a time-honored practice employed by market-dominant companies. Rather than contract with external experts, companies dedicate internal… Read More

Economics Last September, Massachusetts-based Steward Health Care System announced that it would sell its 9 hospitals to Alabama-based Medical… Read More