Independent PCPs can survive—if they move upmarket
Primary care physicians (PCPs) face tremendous pressures along the frontlines of the US health care system. Amid escalating warnings from the AMA and others about […]
Primary care physicians (PCPs) face tremendous pressures along the frontlines of the US health care system. Amid escalating warnings from the AMA and others about […]
Mar 10, 2015
A recent survey of 39 health plans conducted by Catalyst for Payment Reform reported that more health care providers are becoming comfortable with incentive-based capitation […]
Nov 19, 2014
In recent months, several healthcare providers and payers have announced their plans to create integrated provider-payer entities. These mergers are generally introduced as ways to […]
Nov 13, 2014
In the education sector, we love standards. We have academic standards like the Common Core that define what students need to know as they progress […]
Aug 27, 2014
With the explosion of online learning, a disruptive innovation, there has been significant attention paid to the likely unbundling of higher education (see Michael Staton’s AEI […]
July 10, 2014
Over the next few days, health care leaders and practitioners from across the U.S. will meet at the National Council for Behavioral Health’s annual conference […]
May 5, 2014
In my last blog post, I highlighted the value of viewing the education system as architecture of components and subsystems that fit and work together […]
Mar 13, 2014
As we consider the potential of various innovations in our education system, it is helpful to look at that system through the lens of system […]
Feb 27, 2014
Coursera, the popular massive open online course (MOOC) platform, intrigues. With over 5 million students served and $85 million raised—both numbers are first among the “MOOC […]
Dec 19, 2013
Depression is a devastating illness that troubles up to 7% of the U.S. population in any given year. Drug treatments such as Zoloft and Prozac […]
Dec 6, 2013