Healthcare as an industry is fragmented, made up of many disparate businesses, systems, settings, people, and processes. Also, many different stakeholders – doctors, nurses, technical specialists, social workers, researchers, scientists, administrators, lawyers, and lots of other professionals. But, all these fragmented parts and people work together to create one thing – human health and well-being.…
We officially launched Nectar Strategic consulting on April 1st, April Fool’s Day, in the midst of a health crisis the world has never seen before. As I sit alone, in my home office, where life as we know it may have been forever changed. I have decided to embrace the irony and paradox of it…
Can healthcare learn something from the national pastime? As a CMO and former CMIO, I’ve spent the better part of my professional life looking at numbers and trying to wrestle with the enigma that has come to be known as Population Health. As a 2017 article in HealthIT Analytics so aptly titled it, “population health…
Consolidation. If interoperability was the buzzword for 2018, the continued consolidation of provider organizations took top billing in 2019. Hats off to law firm Baker McKenzie which predicted a rebound in merger and acquisition activity after West Virginia University Health System (“WVUHS”) announced agreements with the Summersville Regional Medical Center and acquisition of Jackson General…
While the weatherman might not agree, spring has sprung and with it, the inevitable look behind that door that has been shut for months… the one where “I’ll deal with that later” has gone to hide! For those of us in IT, spring cleaning must go far beyond a hardware and software review. A proper…