One year ago, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) stood on stage at the Corridor Business Journal’s annual Health Care Summit. In his keynote address, he told the crowd about a bipartisan plan to reduce the price of prescription drugs. The bill, according to CBO...
Insights from Northern Trust: Lessons on Covid-19
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, investors from all over have turned to Northern Trust for fact-based insights on the financial markets. On Tuesday, I joined Katie Nixon, the organization’s Chief Investment Officer for Wealth Management, during her weekly...
Lessons from MGMA20: The Operations Conference Online
At a time when the coronavirus is disrupting our personal and professional lives, it’s important that we take advantage of any opportunity to connect, learn from one another and grow. Today, healthcare professionals from all over the country did just that, joining...
The new ‘Fixing Healthcare Survey’ results are in
When speaking at medical conferences, I’m often asked when and how American healthcare will be disrupted. My response has been same for years: It will likely require a catastrophic event. My assumption was that a global recession would force businesses and families to...
Excerpt: Managing the Most Expensive Patients (Harvard Business Review)
When corporate executives, health care leaders, and policy makers discuss the challenge of curbing U.S. health care costs, the conversation invariably turns to the sickest 5% of the population, who consume 50% of health care spending. For a long time the hope has been...
Lessons From HLTH: What Happens If We Fail To Change Healthcare?
Las Vegas looked like the center of the healthcare universe today as it played host to the annual HLTH conference. HLTH is the largest and most important event for health innovation and technological change, drawing 6,000+ attendees from the insurance, pharma and...
Lessons On Healthcare Disruption From The Strata Decision Summit
At the “Lift 19” Strata Decision Summit in Chicago, I had the opportunity to speak to an audience of more than 800 healthcare executives and industry experts. Led by dynamic CEO Dan Michelson, Strata delivers cloud-based financial planning, analytics and performance...
It’s 2040: How Did American Healthcare Become The Best In The World?
The U.S. healthcare system has no shortage of problems. Independent studies confirm it’s the most expensive and least effective in the developed world. There’s also no shortage of ideas to reverse rising costs, lagging quality and declining satisfaction ratings....
Lessons from the 88th annual ‘Plastic Surgery The Meeting’
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is the oldest plastic surgery organization in the world. Founded in 1931, the society claims a membership of more than 8,000—including, throughout history, a veritable “who’s who” of reconstructive and cosmetic plastic...
Big business can drive healthcare change: Lessons from the Health Transformation Alliance
The Health Transformation Alliance (HTA), a healthcare-focused cooperative comprising 50 major corporations including IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Verizon and Marriott, hosted its annual meeting on Tuesday, June 26. I was honored to keynote the event in New Jersey and had...









