Nurses: Key To Better Faster Cheaper Healthcare

We now actually have considerable experience, data, examples, and outcomes of pilots that show exactly how to provide better health care, for less, for everyone. They have a number of factors in common, such as much more emphasis on primary care, prevention, and...

Where We’re Really Headed: Health Care 2020 and Beyond

The trends, vectors, and forces that are rapidly re-shaping health care are far deeper and broader than what is written into the health care reform act. Within a decade the structure, economics, legal position, and technological underpinnings of health care will be...

How We Can Drive Down Real Costs in Health Care

The emerging future of health care shows definite and startling features: Far beyond merely “bending the cost curve” of health care inflation, various organizations across the country are showing how to actually drive the cost down by substantial amounts, without...

“Patient In Chief”: Putting The Customer In Charge

The road to real “consumer-driven health care” is twisty and full of potholes. But some health care providers, some employers, and some insurers are making it work so well that it begins to look like the answer. Let’s take a look: What makes a...