“The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same.[1]” When Ascendient was launched in the summer of 1994, Congress was debating the Clintons’ “Managed Competition” plan to reform the US healthcare system.  It faced defeat a few months later.  In the decades since, we applauded the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010,… Read More

TRANSCRIPTION: This is Brian Ackerman. Today I want to talk to you a little bit about rethinking primary care recruitment. If you’re in the recruiting business, you know how difficult it is to attract and retain primary care physicians in particular. What I want to do today is really outline why you might want to… Read More

TRANSCRIPTION: I’m Daniel Carter. I wanted to take a few minutes today to share some ideas with those of you who may be working on your community health needs assessments. Now, these are ideas that I have developed over a number of years working with all types of organizations including public health departments, FQHCs, and… Read More

The future is hard to predict however if you plan using scenario planning you can account for numerous scenarios.  In this short video, Daniel Carter will discuss externalities in strategic planning.  Watch as Daniel unpacks this topic. Video Transcription: I’m Daniel Carter and I want to talk today about dealing with some of the externalities… Read More

  In this short video, Daniel Carter will discuss the evolution of microhospitals as he highlights two examples. Video Transcription: I’m Daniel Carter. I want to talk a little bit today about the evolution of microhospitals as it pertains to regulations.  To do that I want to talk about a couple of specific states. First… Read More

Changing market forces across the healthcare industry will have major reverberations across key provider, consumer, and other stakeholder communities that operate both within and outside of traditional healthcare system networks. And as a new and dramatically different type of healthcare delivery model emerges, healthcare executives can no longer afford to embrace a “business as usual”… Read More