Amazon has redesigned the process of shopping by focusing on its simplest components: enter the store, take your items, and leave. It has isolated the most frustrating components—checkout and payment—and used sophisticated computer vision and machine learning to make them invisible to the consumer. The Amazon Go store is a relatively small-scale experiment that will teach Amazon more about how retail can be reimagined. We can expect that Amazon’s lessons from this experiment will be applied on an increasingly broader scale.

Learn why 2017 has been appropriately tagged as a transformative year for healthcare deal-making, and the implications.

Investigate options that may be employed in lieu of advance refunding outstanding debt.

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Using technology to transform quality, costs, and the patient experience A healthcare organization’s ability to sustain high-value care delivery and ensure its long-term financial...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos paints on a big canvas. The canvas is so big that it is nearly impossible to step back far enough to appreciate the full picture. The fact that the picture is getting larger and being embellished every day makes it even more difficult to grasp its dimension and interconnections.

Ken Kaufman has a wide-ranging conversation with Michael Peregrine, partner at McDermott Will & Emery, on what healthcare boards need to know about industry disruption. Covering artificial intelligence, powerful new competitors, pending legislation, and more, Kaufman challenges healthcare boards to adopt a culture of experimentation and change. This podcast is from McDermott Will & Emery's Governing Health podcast series.

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

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.