5 Critical Priorities for the U.S. Health Care System_ LBlackmon

Marc Harrison presents 5 critical priorities to significantly improve our health care system. As debilitating as the COVID-19 was to the U.S., it helped us to focus on our health and potentially redefined the future of health care in America. The priorities presented in the article by Marc Harrison have the potential to improve health … Read more

The Strategy That Will Fix Healthcare_JEvans

The article I chose to review was Michael Porter’s and Thomas Lee’s article, “The Strategy thatwill fix healthcare”. The authors did a strong job at displaying their ideas for describing their strategiesto maximize the value of our healthcare system. In their article, the authors detailed how despite thediligent efforts of well-trained healthcare professionals around the … Read more

Harvard Business Review’s The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care

Harvard Business Review’s The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care is an article that discusses ways to fix healthcare worldwide. In the article, they talk about health care costs rising. Due to Medicare and Medicaid recipients increasing, and low reimbursement rates, private doctors are moving to salary-based jobs. In the article, providers could reduce costs … Read more

Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, And Approaches To Dismantling_KHunt

Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, And Approaches To Dismantling provided an in depth view of racism, as well as the work it will take to dismantle the reality that racism has and does indeed still exist.  Often, racism is seen as overt actions or words towards a specific person that can be … Read more

Horizon’s Patient-Centered Medical Home Program Shows Practices Need Much More Than Payment Changes To Transform_LAdams

Quality of Care in the United States Health Care System has been the focus of much scrutiny in recent decades, as models have begun shifting from fee-for-service to value-based care payment models. Provider practices that operate within various insurance contracts and quality programs are responsible for not only providing quality, efficient, affordable care, but also … Read more

Imbalance of Equity in Health_JGriffis

Alan R. Weil, the Editor and Chief of Health Affairs journal, takes a look into the relation between income and health. The study was funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Equity-Focused Policy Research program. The overall premise is that although the government provides care there are still inequalities depending on social determinants, income, and … Read more

Scientific Management at Merck: An interview with CFO Judy Lewent

Judy Lewent is the Chief Financial Officer for the Pharmaceutical company Merck Inc. She manages a tight ship with several employees, five hundred of them being on the financial team. The article is based in the 1990s, during the Clinton administration. The purpose of this analysis is to analyze the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and … Read more