The bubble of activity among the five big healthcare payers continued this week when Cigna rejected Anthem's latest takeover bid. Talks of mergers and acquisitions in healthcare continue to permeate in the industry, but according to Jonathan Bush, cofounder and…
Disruptors
Jonathan Bush's no-holds-barred approach applies to all elements of his company athenahealth. Gatherings hosted by the company, of which Mr. Bush is co-founder and CEO, allow professionals and VIPs to bond over drinking games, share taboo stories and take rides…
Will one of America’s most innovative companies be able to disrupt healthcare? Earlier this week, Reuters broke the news of Salesforce.com’s plans to enter the healthcare industry. The cloud-based CRM juggernaut has set its sights quite high — to the…
R. Blake Curd, MD, chairman of the board of directors of Surgical Management Professionals, will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Becker's ASC 21st Annual Conference on Oct. 23 through Oct. 25 in Chicago, Ill.
The following are September's five most-read stories on healthcare disruption on Becker's Hospital Review.
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The question is not whether your organization should develop an ACO/CIN. Instead, the question is once you do, will you be able to convert it into a high-value network capable of delivering high quality and cost-effective care in bundled and…
Wal-Mart plans to open a dozen primary care clinics within a small number of its retail stores by the end of 2014, according to a New York Times report from last week. The retailer has opened five primary care clinics…
Last week I wrote a blog on preparing for change in healthcare and cited Harvard Professor Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation. After I published the piece, Becker's Managing Editor Molly Gamble stopped by my desk to see if…
Healthcare is about to be disrupted, and today's healthcare leaders are far from ready. Healthcare organizations, though aware of and slowly preparing for significant change to business as usual, are more or less sitting ducks. Enter a true disruptor, and…
Healthcare providers know the industry is ripe for disruption, and despite efforts by many health systems to provide more convenient, patient-friendly care, many in the industry recognize disruptive innovation is more likely to come from outside the industry than from…