Fast Money

Why it might be even harder to swing for the fences? I met with an equity analyst a few weeks ago who used the term fast money. The term really resonated with me as a description for what I’ve been seeing in healthcare [aka: out-of-network strategy, balanced billing...

Purpose + Impact

Three principles for leading with purpose and positively impacting the world. I’ve been reading some of the report outs from the JPM Healthcare conference this week. As expected with a financially oriented conference, there was a lot of discussion about growth, profit...

Evolution vs. Disruption

A radical challenge can help spur fresh ideas. We’re getting more insight into as to where political and business leaders are looking for ideas to help lower the cost of healthcare in the US.  LA Care came up this week because it’s a public option currently available...

People or Idea?

What’s more important – people or the idea? When posed to a group, the response is usually 50/50. According to Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and author of Creativity Inc., the result means that people genuinely don’t know. The answer is people because...

Short: Regulation vs. Ethics

Can the healthcare industry self regulate? I had a discussion recently with a CEO to fortune 1000 companies about the need for proper regulation. At the start of the conversation, he asked what I meant by regulation. So to ensure that we’re all on the same page...

Short: Addiction

Reimagining the frontlines of addiction. Everyone is feeling the pain of the homeless issue and the drain of addiction related issues. A colleague emailed me today with his latest story of arriving to work early and stepping in human feces on his way into the office....