By Mark Crockett, Digital Health CEO April 2021– In the excellent book “The Hard Thing about Hard Things” by Ben Horowitz, he extolls the virtue of communicating bad news. Culturally, after the first few times bad news is delivered, people stop worrying about disclosure and get in a cadence of fixing. So, I’ll start: the… Read more »
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The Fallacy of Zero Tolerance….in Hiring
By Jim Gibson – This article appeared a long, long time ago in Health Data Management. March 2021– As search consultants, we are usually viewed as trusted advisors and extensions of the management team. So, knowing when to push back on a client, and when to just defer to the client’s opinion and judgment, is… Read more »
How Hospitals Can Improve Operating Room Turnaround Times
By Neeraj Bhavani, Founder, Tagnos February 2021– For hospitals, operating rooms (ORs) are big business. The current pandemic is affecting this business in unprecedented ways, but the following shows how the ORs generate revenue and how they can optimize it, while improving throughput and patient satisfaction. One recent survey found that the four types of… Read more »
When an Early Stage Founder Should – and Should Not – Use a Recruiter
by Colleen Watford, Director, Executive Search, Digital Health This article was originally published on LinkedIn– [View original post] Are you a founder of a startup or early stage company? Have you used a recruiter to find talent? I’ve learned from my conversations with your peers that many founders have not. They may have become familiar… Read more »
More than a Mandate: Price Transparency Rules as a Market Differentiator
By Pooja Babbrah, PBM Services Practice Lead, Point-of-Care Partners January 2021– In late October, CMS issued a final price transparency rule, closing out a momentous march toward price transparency unlike anything seen before. Over the past few years, CMS and this administration has released four price transparency rules and one Executive Order related to surprise… Read more »
We Need to Collaborate to Accelerate the Adoption of Value-based Care
By Jonathan Bradley, Principal, Ironwood Health December 2020- Many recent articles correctly point out that the widespread and full-throated adoption of the principles of value-based care are moving at a casual pace, at best. To be sure, there are pockets of rapid progress, but the overall adoption of advanced payment methodologies, and with it, the… Read more »
Gibson Talks – Risk Adjustment Edition
December 2020- In this inaugural edition of Gibson Talks, Executive Recruiter Trey Wheless consults with Fahad Ahmed on recommendations for the most current and pertinent issues in Risk Adjustment. 1. What are some of the benefits and hurdles to transitioning from RAPS to EDS? In 2012, CMS began collecting encounter data through the Encounter Data… Read more »
Winning Through Culture
By Brian Dorsey, Chief Culture Officer and Mindy Braithwaite, Vice President of Administration, Sellers Dorsey November 2020- To compete for talent and win in the business of health care, be intentional about company culture. Every company has a workplace culture whether or not its management guides that culture with intention. Like the temperature in a… Read more »
Is Value-Based Care Stalled?
By Kevin Hutchinson, CEO, Apervita October 2020 – Value-based care remains widely misunderstood by many across the healthcare industry. Much of this confusion stems from our collective inclination to misinterpret activity as progress, and that misinterpretation has created plenty of frustration among payers, providers and regulators. The truth is, we’re failing to see the bigger… Read more »
Creating a Culture of Compliance with Your Third-Party Vendors
by Matthew LaGanke, Executive Recruiter: Healthcare Compliance and Regulatory Affairs This article was originally published in Healthcare Business Today- [View Original Post] Third-party vendors have proven to be an invaluable resource for many health plans looking to cut costs on services and bring value to their organization. While these services provide many benefits, they often bring just… Read more »