Best Practices For Transforming Healthcare

Posted by Marc Lichtenstein on November 26, 2012

Trying to transform America’s healthcare system requires more than just great ideas. It needs a set of best practices to utilize in constructing those great ideas to make sure they meet the goals of improving access to high-quality,...

Healthcare Transformation, Patients, Providers, Transparency, Safety

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Primary Care Physicians and Coordinated Care

Posted by Marc Lichtenstein on November 19, 2012

Football has the quarterback. The symphony has its conductor. Film crews have a producer. Any successful organization will have that one primary coordinator in place who makes all the various moving parts act in concert.

In medicine we...

Physicians, Primary Care, Coordinated Care

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Health Insurance From Invention to Innovation: A History of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Companies

Posted by Marc Lichtenstein on November 12, 2012

Health insurance didn’t always exist.

Let that notion sink in for a moment as you try to imagine a world without health insurance. How could ordinary Americans afford healthcare? Who would help doctors and hospitals finance viable...

Health Insurance, Healthcare, BCBS History, Quality Care, Health, Affordable Care

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