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Making a Meaningful Impression

Making a Meaningful Impression

How Creativity Beats Brute Force in Marketing By Mike Killeen If you’re old enough to have witnessed the introduction of the first Macintosh computer, you probably remember the electrifying ad[1] that announced its release. It was 1984, the year of Big Brother, and...

What Good Doctors Want

10 Ways Accountable Care Organizations Can Win the Hearts and Minds of the Best Doctors and Physician Practices

As anyone working in American medicine knows, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 initiated a tectonic shift in how healthcare is delivered. Healthcare providers are moving away from the old fee-for-service model that rewards providers for ordering lots of expensive tests, office visits, and procedures. And they’re moving toward an outcome-based model, in which compensation is tied to the health of individual patients and to the overall served population, as well as to cost savings.