Millennials Are Ditching Primary Care. What's Next and Who Cares?
Earlier this year, our team surveyed hundreds of Millennials (men and women aged between 20 and 40) in three major East Coast cities to...
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PHYSICIAN, EXECUTIVE, WRITER, ADVISOR
American Healthcare was a finalist for the NIHCM Digital Media award in 2015. The blog ran from 2013- 2019, with syndication to Tincture, KevinMD and The Health Care Blog. This is an archive of the blog posts: images and formatting are unfortunately lost. Since these posts are pretty old, some of my thoughts have evolved, and some data is no longer accurate...
Jan 28, 2018
Switching Costs are Slowing Consumer Adoption of Healthcare Innovation
Healthcare seems ripe for disruption by new entrants, and there has been no shortage of trying. According to a recent report published...
May 30, 2016
Segmenting Healthcare: What's Your Customer's Currency?
Over the past few years, I've spent a lot of time speculating about the emergence of consumer segmentation in the US healthcare market. ...
Jul 29, 2015
More Thoughts on Segmenting Healthcare: Who'll Serve the "High End" of the Market?
In a few previous blog posts I've written about market segmentation in US healthcare. I've made the observation that healthcare delivery...
Jun 12, 2015
The Pendulum Swings Between Individualism vs. Collectivism in US Healthcare. What Does the Next Decade Hold?
When I visit my European in-laws, some who work in healthcare, I'll often regale them with American Healthcare Horror Stories. They've...
Apr 3, 2015
Segmenting Healthcare into "Luxury" and "Value" Brands... Thoughts On Not Getting Stuck in the Middle.
A few months ago, I wrote about how healthcare is poised to segment according to cost and service levels-- and that we will likely begin...
Jan 21, 2015
A Flood of Medical Information Has Overwhelmed the Craft Business of Medicine: What's Next?
If recent popular posts on the big physician blogs are any indication, some US physicians are beginning to crack. Three of the most read...
Dec 3, 2014
Consumers are Linking Budget Airline Itineraries: Will They "Virtual Interline" Medical Services Too?
A few weeks ago, WOW Air, an Icelandic budget airline, announced that they would be flying Boston-Reykjavik at an introductory fare of...
Nov 13, 2014
Will We Improve Healthcare Delivery By Building Hierarchies or Loose Networks? Considering Lunch Delivered in Mumbai
When you talk to patients about improving the “patient experience”, the conversation usually steers to how patients move between episodes...
Oct 7, 2014
Failing at Health Reform: The Critical Importance of Both Motivation and Execution
Around the country, for every health system that is successfully navigating the early years of value-based healthcare, there are several...
Sep 13, 2014
Is The Proliferation of Urgent Care Clinics an Evolutionary Step Towards Primary Care 2.0? Thoughts on Not Betting the Farm When it Comes to Urgent Care Mania...
About seven years ago, the California Healthcare Roundtable and HealthAffairs sat down to prepare a white paper on the emerging...
Aug 20, 2014
The Growth of Doctor Networks: Will "Healthcare Islands" Appeal to Value-Seeking Millennials?
Around the country, doctors are leaving independent practice and joining large groups owned by healthcare systems. It’s a trend: the...
Aug 18, 2014
Academic Medical Centers Are Under Siege. Is the Best Strategy to Go Small or to Go Big and Own the Continuum?
The university hospital at my alma mater recently announced an intriguing deal. Jefferson University Hospital, around since 1825, signed...
Aug 11, 2014
Budget Boutique Hospitals? Will The Search for Value Lead to Market-Segmentation in American Healthcare?
Years ago, a professor in a healthcare economics course introduced a healthcare adage: never forget, he said, that the way we pay for...
Jul 24, 2014
Will Physician "Trust Platforms" Make System Affiliation Less Important? Considering Airbnb and Holiday Inn
In this week's New York Times , columnist Thomas Friedman makes a great observation regarding the emergence of what he calls the "sharing...
Jul 10, 2014
Healthcare Mergers are the End of the Beginning: Some Lessons From the US Airline Business
There has been a lot of recent discussion about the value of large healthcare mergers, such as Partners ongoing acquisitions in the...
May 26, 2014
Unbundled Healthcare... Does the future promise a few "star" clinicians and a skinny delivery platform?
Recently there has been a lot of recent commentary on how online university courses are disrupting traditional universities. Besides...
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