Insights
Leadership
Rural health care CEOs are thriving in transformative times
More than 100 rural hospitals have closed since 2010 and approximately 700 more are currently in danger of following suit. How do rural CEOs survive? By looking ahead.
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Consumerism
Outlook on Redefining Network Boundaries Report
Traditional solutions, like higher deductibles, have not managed to improve outcomes or bend the cost curve. At the same time, consumer passivity is coming to an end. The market needs a major overhaul.
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New Entrants
How Project Adirondack came to fruition
Maureen O’Connor, President of Whiterabbit.ai and formerly an executive with Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina, and Rob Coppedge, CEO of Echo Health Ventures, recall how Project Adirondack emerged.
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Policy
New price transparency rules can help health care transformation become unstuck
Why CEOs should back the new price transparency rules despite short term obstacles and the public complaints that are against them.
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Consumerism
Many CEOs say pricing in health care is too complex to be transparent
Reaction from the health care industry to the recent rules on health care pricing transparency has been mostly negative and cynical. Here’s why some CEOs are saying pricing is too complex to be transparent and the rules could even create higher prices.
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Social Determinants
Outlook on Addressing Social Isolation and Loneliness Report
Social isolation and loneliness are emerging social health problems and are also the strongest predictor of health care dissatisfaction. And while the terms are often used together, it’s important to understand the difference.
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Leadership
Rural health care in the age of CVS and Walmart: An interview with Marshfield Clinic CEO Susan Turney
Turney discusses how she went from practicing physician to a CEO, the biggest risk she has ever taken, returning to her rural health care roots and the threat that CVS-Aetna and Walmart pose.
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Consumerism
Leading an enterprise pivot toward consumer-centered care: An interview with AdventHealth CEO Terry Shaw
Health Evolution Editor-in-Chief Tom Sullivan spoke with Terry Shaw about what AdventHealth has achieved in the first year-and-a-half of the transition to patient-centric care, the public promises it is working on for its patient population and more.
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New Entrants
Entrepreneurial health care CEOs are finding inspiration abroad
Academic researchers suggest that innovation from other countries could cut care delivery costs by up to 50 percent. Some CEOs are taking this to heart and employing lessons learned abroad here in the U.S.
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Social Determinants
Health care’s role in improving the local economy: An interview with Carilion Clinic CEO Nancy Howell Agee
Agee discusses how becoming an integrated delivery network set the stage for Carilion’s partnership and initiatives to transform the Roanoke, Virginia region into an innovation corridor.
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