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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with the revenues generated from others. But the very existence of these cross-subsidies is symptomatic of deep flaws in the health care reimbursement system. Kaplan and Michael E.

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Health Care Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Driven by Profit

Harvard Business Review

As health care reform evolves, large public institutions that offer a health safety net have some advantages over privately owned enterprises. Those are all assets in an era of health care reform. I head one of these institutions: Dallas-based Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. Insight Center.

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An Alternative to Health Care M&A

Harvard Business Review

One of the main justifications for the mergers and acquisitions sweeping the health care industry is greater integration between the physicians and teams that care for patients. In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. We chose to support independent medical centers by creating the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business Review

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Insight Center.

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Improve the Affordable Care Act, Don’t Repeal It

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center.