Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last Walmart’s Primary Care Failure Is Important and a Problem Walmart’s failure as a healthcare provider points to some big problems in U.S. healthcare, including a difficult business model, an unfriendly reimbursement model, and a basic healthcare expense-to-revenue problem. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman A Different Way of Thinking About Hospital Closures The many forces driving some hospitals to financial distress make it impossible to maintain the status quo. Leaders can move beyond a binary close-or-don’t-close decision to reconsider what it means to deliver healthcare in communities that struggle to support a hospital. 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 The Changing Business Principles of American Healthcare For a very long time, hospitals have been organized around three principles that inform the way they run their organizations, and how they conduct themselves in the management suite and the board room. 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 Metallic Blue Cars What would happen if legacy healthcare providers were immersed in the totality of consumers’ lives and used those insights to redefine the healthcare experience? Thoughts from Ken Kaufman A Path Forward for Rural Healthcare Given industry pressures, significant changes in the nature and delivery of rural healthcare are inevitable. What is the future of rural healthcare? Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Now, Near, and Far: Planning Through Disruption in Healthcare To see the future of healthcare, look through the windshield of a Ford. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Innovation Needs Entrepreneurs Legacy healthcare organizations see innovation as a crucial path to staying relevant in a fast-changing world. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Radical Decision Making Podcast Series How bold is your board? A fast-changing environment requires health system boards to make decisions more quickly, more boldly, and with a greater tolerance for risk. Learn more in... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last
Walmart’s Primary Care Failure Is Important and a Problem Walmart’s failure as a healthcare provider points to some big problems in U.S. healthcare, including a difficult business model, an unfriendly reimbursement model, and a basic healthcare expense-to-revenue problem. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
A Different Way of Thinking About Hospital Closures The many forces driving some hospitals to financial distress make it impossible to maintain the status quo. Leaders can move beyond a binary close-or-don’t-close decision to reconsider what it means to deliver healthcare in communities that struggle to support a hospital. 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
The Changing Business Principles of American Healthcare For a very long time, hospitals have been organized around three principles that inform the way they run their organizations, and how they conduct themselves in the management suite and the board room. 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
Metallic Blue Cars What would happen if legacy healthcare providers were immersed in the totality of consumers’ lives and used those insights to redefine the healthcare experience? Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
A Path Forward for Rural Healthcare Given industry pressures, significant changes in the nature and delivery of rural healthcare are inevitable. What is the future of rural healthcare? Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Now, Near, and Far: Planning Through Disruption in Healthcare To see the future of healthcare, look through the windshield of a Ford. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Innovation Needs Entrepreneurs Legacy healthcare organizations see innovation as a crucial path to staying relevant in a fast-changing world. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Radical Decision Making Podcast Series How bold is your board? A fast-changing environment requires health system boards to make decisions more quickly, more boldly, and with a greater tolerance for risk. Learn more in... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman