Strategy

Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, Texas, will reinstate its mask requirements, according to local station CBS7.

In 2009, I co-founded a company called Kobo, a global leader in e-books. When I look back on that time, what motivated incumbents to innovate wasn’t new technology or the desire to drive growth. It was fear.

Would you rather save time or money? When both are in short supply, this can be an impossible question for hospitals to answer. 

Affordability has long been an issue in healthcare, but the problem has only worsened. Permanent solutions are needed to bend the healthcare cost curve in the United States.

Safety is always a concern in hospital environments. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and civil unrest over the past year, risks to hospital and health system staff, patients and assets have only increased.

Through its Centers of Excellence program, Walmart partners with health systems that have demonstrated appropriate, high-quality care and outcomes for defined episodes of care.

Consulting company Guidehouse released a report discussing growth opportunities for risk-based partnerships between payers and providers, also known as "payviders," in U.S. markets. 

"Noise" is unwanted variability in judgments that should be identical, and most senior executives underestimate just how loud it is within their organizations.

Texas, Florida and Georgia accounted for half of the aggregated population growth in the last decade. Yet these states rank last in health and healthcare for having a large number of uninsured adults, high amounts of premature death and unaffordable…

Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, Texas, is relaxing several of its mask requirements, according to a June 1 report from NewsWest9.