Dec 19, 2019
I was asked by a group of students from Michigan University’s Ross School of Business to identify what I would consider companies or areas of promise in health care. It’s a good question. I’m going to take a stab at the answer in this health care podcast, but let me foreshadow coming up next month, there’ll be a...
Dec 12, 2019
Right now, I am in the middle of rereading The Innovator’s Dilemma—that seminal work by Clayton Christensen. I’m at the chapter right now where he talks about resources (human and otherwise), processes, and values. These three things are the trifecta that determines what any organization can manage to achieve—or...
Dec 5, 2019
Musculoskeletal issues, otherwise known as MSK issues, account for something like 20% of the cost to any given health plan or employer or anyone else who is paying the bill for health care. That’s like one in every five dollars, which is meaningful when you consider million-dollar drugs and diabetes and all the other...
Nov 28, 2019
I was listening to The #HCBiz Show!, featuring hosts Don Lee and Shahid Shah, earlier this year—specifically, their two-part series entitled “Selling Into Health Systems” [part 1 and part 2]. Besides being co-hosts of The #HCBiz Show!, Don Lee is the founder of Glide Health and VBP Forward [which stands for...
Nov 21, 2019
In this podcast originally published early last year, Alex Akers and I had a chance to speak with Dr. Robert Pearl about his book Mistreated: Why We Think We’re Getting Good Health Care—And Why We’re Usually Wrong. Besides being an author, Dr. Pearl is former CEO of the Permanente Medical Group; he’s a frequent...