Overhauling the Mayo Clinic business model, digital solutions to the healthcare cost crisis, and other insights from recent articles.

Paul Crnkovich shows how Kroger's position as a grocery store suggests challenges and opportunities for healthcare providers.

Many healthcare providers are seeking the ability to form—or the opportunity to join—an integrated system or delivery network.

The changes proposed in the Senate and House healthcare bills would affect a large and highly vulnerable population: poor children, people with disabilities, elderly people whose resources have been depleted, and adults suffering from short-term or long-term poverty. Yet, the House and Senate bills contain no direction on how to implement the proposed changes in a way that would not hurt the millions of people the program serves or the many others touched by Medicaid. These high-stakes effects would be left to states and providers to remedy and for these populations to absorb. Our nation’s healthcare system is a large and complex web system of interdependencies among individuals, providers, governments, employers, payers, and many other stakeholders. Any change to one part of that system could cause multiple, hard-to-predict effects on any and every other part.

As more patients turn to their laptops, tablets, and other devices for the expert advice of oncologists, cardiologists, radiologists, and other specialists in distant locations, local demand ultimately will diminish for those physicians, and/or their roles will change. It is not difficult to envision a future in which care diagnosis across the country, and perhaps even the world, is concentrated in a relatively limited number of “National/International Diagnostic Centers.”

Precision medicine is showing great promise in improving health outcomes; providers will need to carefully plan their role in this new approach to care.

Start the critical cost-reduction phase and take an in-depth look at clinical care, using data analytics.

“Digital strategy” is the phrase of the moment in healthcare. That’s no surprise, with 95 percent of Americans owning a cell phone, 88 percent using the internet, and 72 percent using services of the digital economy. Yet the focus of a truly successful digital strategy transcends what we usually think of as digital.

Benchmarks for how well America’s hospitals and health systems are prioritizing consumerism and building consumer-centric capabilities.

A framework should clearly outline those responsible for oversight of cost transformation, as well as specific improvement teams and their objectives. Achieving successful and...

Healthcare's future is being shaped by the some of the biggest companies in the world. However, the Federal Trade Commission seems intent on keeping hospitals from shaping that future.

The latest Industry Flash Report highlights recent transaction activity in the Physician Group sector and the major players involved.