Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pandemic Redux? When the nation is unprepared for catastrophic public health emergencies, the consequences are as real as they can get. As we saw with COVID-19, many people died while the country’s public health apparatus struggled to catch up, and America’s hospitals, jumped into the breach. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Amazon Doubles Down With the COVID crisis entering its third year and continuing to demand the immediate attention of hospitals, executives should look closely at Amazon’s example of investing across their businesses to satisfy long-term customer needs. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Re-setting the Healthcare Gyroscope The healthcare gyroscope is a delicate combination of management, governance, and medical attitudes and processes that keeps all complex healthcare organizations functioning in a way that serves the best interests of its patients and associated communities. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Board Dialogue: Podcast with Ken Kaufman - Episode 2: Post-Pandemic Preparedness On this episode Michael Peregrine and Ken Kaufman discuss a number of important post-pandemic developments for the board to consider. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Healthcare Costs Post-Pandemic: A Different Perspective For many hospitals and health systems around the country, COVID-19 threatens to create long-term negative changes to volumes, revenues, and margins on top of the pressures that weighed on hospitals even before the pandemic. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Skeptics Wanted Never before have organizations been required to think more rapidly and radically than in the volatile environment of COVID-19, when existing business models are being decimated daily, and organizations need to hit a new target that is hazy at best. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Observations on Management Healthcare organizations have rotated toward a transactional operating platform because that platform is highly correlated to efficient operations, consistent levels of clinical care, and excellent financial performance. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman How Telehealth Could Fail After several years of research and development, the automated teller machine made its first appearance in 1967 at a branch of London’s Barclay’s Bank. Two years later, the first U.S. ATM was installed at a branch of the Chemical Bank on Long Island. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter Lay Bare the Need for Healthcare Change Data have long told a story of racial disparities in quality of care and in rates of morbidity and mortality from cancers, heart disease, and maternal and child health. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Getting Hospitals Back to their Fighting Weight The more we learn about the revenue shock that hospitals are experiencing from COVID-19, the clearer it becomes that recovering from that shock will require a rethinking of hospital operations. Read more. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Pandemic Redux? When the nation is unprepared for catastrophic public health emergencies, the consequences are as real as they can get. As we saw with COVID-19, many people died while the country’s public health apparatus struggled to catch up, and America’s hospitals, jumped into the breach. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Amazon Doubles Down With the COVID crisis entering its third year and continuing to demand the immediate attention of hospitals, executives should look closely at Amazon’s example of investing across their businesses to satisfy long-term customer needs. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Re-setting the Healthcare Gyroscope The healthcare gyroscope is a delicate combination of management, governance, and medical attitudes and processes that keeps all complex healthcare organizations functioning in a way that serves the best interests of its patients and associated communities. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Board Dialogue: Podcast with Ken Kaufman - Episode 2: Post-Pandemic Preparedness On this episode Michael Peregrine and Ken Kaufman discuss a number of important post-pandemic developments for the board to consider. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Healthcare Costs Post-Pandemic: A Different Perspective For many hospitals and health systems around the country, COVID-19 threatens to create long-term negative changes to volumes, revenues, and margins on top of the pressures that weighed on hospitals even before the pandemic. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Skeptics Wanted Never before have organizations been required to think more rapidly and radically than in the volatile environment of COVID-19, when existing business models are being decimated daily, and organizations need to hit a new target that is hazy at best. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Observations on Management Healthcare organizations have rotated toward a transactional operating platform because that platform is highly correlated to efficient operations, consistent levels of clinical care, and excellent financial performance. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
How Telehealth Could Fail After several years of research and development, the automated teller machine made its first appearance in 1967 at a branch of London’s Barclay’s Bank. Two years later, the first U.S. ATM was installed at a branch of the Chemical Bank on Long Island. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter Lay Bare the Need for Healthcare Change Data have long told a story of racial disparities in quality of care and in rates of morbidity and mortality from cancers, heart disease, and maternal and child health. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Getting Hospitals Back to their Fighting Weight The more we learn about the revenue shock that hospitals are experiencing from COVID-19, the clearer it becomes that recovering from that shock will require a rethinking of hospital operations. Read more. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman