Feb 10, 2020 | Innovation
Why it might be even harder to swing for the fences? I met with an equity analyst a few weeks ago who used the term fast money. The term really resonated with me as a description for what I’ve been seeing in healthcare [aka: out-of-network strategy, balanced billing...
Jan 20, 2020 | Innovation
Three principles for leading with purpose and positively impacting the world. I’ve been reading some of the report outs from the JPM Healthcare conference this week. As expected with a financially oriented conference, there was a lot of discussion about growth, profit...
Aug 29, 2019 | Innovation
What’s more important – people or the idea? When posed to a group, the response is usually 50/50. According to Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and author of Creativity Inc., the result means that people genuinely don’t know. The answer is people because...
Aug 19, 2019 | Innovation
Can the healthcare industry self regulate? I had a discussion recently with a CEO to fortune 1000 companies about the need for proper regulation. At the start of the conversation, he asked what I meant by regulation. So to ensure that we’re all on the same page...
Jul 18, 2019 | Innovation
Reimagining the frontlines of addiction. Everyone is feeling the pain of the homeless issue and the drain of addiction related issues. A colleague emailed me today with his latest story of arriving to work early and stepping in human feces on his way into the office....