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- By Alex Brown
The dirty little secret of the booming agile training and coaching industry is that most Agile implementations ultimately fail, meaning that the companies revert back to their previous working methods…
- By Alex Brown
In a previous post, I explored Maxwell Health as an example of agile product development strategy in healthcare. For small single-product companies the product strategy is the corporate strategy, but…
- By Tory Wolff
Earlier this month, Mercy Health announced deals to dismantle HealthSpan (the former Kaiser business in northeast Ohio acquired in 2013), selling the insurance arm to local powerhouse Med Mutual, diss…
- By Tory Wolff
A new article in JAMA recommends that ACOs and health systems develop patient loyalty programs comparable to those offered by coffee shops, hotels and airlines (McMahon et al, "Health System Loyalty P…
- By Marc Herant
Defining success in health care
A perspective advertising yeoman’s work of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) which has defined specific metrics for dozens of disease…
- By Tory Wolff
Correctional health and correctional pharmacy
2.2M people are incarcerated in local jails and state and federal prisons at any one time in the U.S. for whose healthcare various government agencies are…
- By Tory Wolff
This past January, Walgreens assigned operational control of 56 in-store clinics to Advocate Health. The deal signals another intensification of the already fierce hospital competition in Chicago, and…
- By Marc Herant
Leveraging community services for health
In poor individuals, a lot of health issues are intimately connected to their socioeconomic circumstances. However, at the system level, there has been a chron…
- By Tory Wolff
Earlier this month, CMS announced the first cohort of Next Generation ACO (“NGACO”) providers (see here our summary of the key changes made in the Next Generation). Below are a few thoughts on who sig…