This week, four game-changing healthcare deals were announced within five days. Despite different characteristics, these deals demonstrate a common message: that a whole different level of scale is needed to survive and thrive in the new market realities of healthcare.

Amazon is experimenting with same-day delivery by drones, delivering packages inside your home even when you are away, and eliminating traditional check-out from retail stores. These...

Q&A with Eugene Woods, President and CEO, Carolinas HealthCare System Read this Q&A to hear how Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS) approaches and organizes innovation initiatives, as well as how their President and CEO would advise others to go about embracing innovation and creative thinking.

Q&A with Bruce Lawrence, President and CEO, INTEGRIS Read this Q&A to hear how INTEGRIS positions itself for changes to healthcare's business model, if they are able to link consumer focus with strategy for growth, and how it approached innovation at the system level.

The pace of healthcare consolidation has been accelerating significantly. Between 2006 and 2016, the number of announced hospital and health system transactions increased 55 percent. As I discuss these trends with healthcare executives across the country, the question I hear most often is: What is the endgame?

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, the second largest commercial health insurer in the country, is sending a strong message to hospitals about their prices. That message is: “enough.”

“Finding those points where there’s common ground is where you can really make some progress.” Kaufman Hall: What is your system’s most innovative program today? David Blom: Our...

When any disruptive force appears to threaten the physical wellbeing of patients—or the financial wellbeing of hospitals and physicians—the understandable first response is to push back.

Catherine Jasobson describes Froedtert Health's innovation subsidiary, Inception Health.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos paints on a big canvas. The canvas is so big that it is nearly impossible to step back far enough to appreciate the full picture. The fact that the picture is getting larger and being embellished every day makes it even more difficult to grasp its dimension and interconnections.

Ken Kaufman has a wide-ranging conversation with Michael Peregrine, partner at McDermott Will & Emery, on what healthcare boards need to know about industry disruption. Covering artificial intelligence, powerful new competitors, pending legislation, and more, Kaufman challenges healthcare boards to adopt a culture of experimentation and change. This podcast is from McDermott Will & Emery's Governing Health podcast series.

The changes proposed in the Senate and House healthcare bills would affect a large and highly vulnerable population: poor children, people with disabilities, elderly people whose resources have been depleted, and adults suffering from short-term or long-term poverty. Yet, the House and Senate bills contain no direction on how to implement the proposed changes in a way that would not hurt the millions of people the program serves or the many others touched by Medicaid. These high-stakes effects would be left to states and providers to remedy and for these populations to absorb. Our nation’s healthcare system is a large and complex web system of interdependencies among individuals, providers, governments, employers, payers, and many other stakeholders. Any change to one part of that system could cause multiple, hard-to-predict effects on any and every other part.