It’s rare you meet someone in this business who doesn’t realize that adherence is a wildly costly problem. And it’s also rare you meet someone who hasn’t been involved in some more or less unsuccessful attempt to improve it. But now might be the time to transform pessimism into optimism. First, we’re starting to understand non-adherence […]

First of all, new lingo – patient unit. A patient unit consists of the patient and their family or otherwise who are actively engaged in a patient’s care. Some patient units are under-engaged. We talk a lot about these patients. Other patient units are motivated and empowered and could use our help to maximize the […]

It’s game-on relative to value-based contracts. We’re getting to the place where not just the bleeding edge of the market is contracting based on outcomes instead of volume. If you were waiting for a sign to start thinking about rolling out an innovative contract pilot, now is probably the end of the window to get […]

We need to make incrementalism sexy. We need to make it sexy because healthcare will be transformed via evolution, not revolution. As Dr. Nick van Terheyden says, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” which is as true in American healthcare today as it was whenever this was written eons ago […]

As Brian says, one of the biggest mistakes that healthcare executives make, regardless of whether you’re in the payer or provider or health tech business, is to go for a “Big Bang” strategy with a three year timeframe. Generally, you wind up with a lot of elaborate plans and not much to show for it. […]