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It Is Not About the Price
Becoming a focused care delivery platform is about more than just revenue streams; it requires physician practices to solve a bigger problem.
READ MORE »Purse in the Road
As practices expand to become a platform, adding revenue sources is a key part, but too many physicians get trapped looking for an easy answer that is not sustainable, or worse.
READ MORE »Evolving Etymology
One long-term path to continued independence involves the practice becoming more of a care delivery platform. Generating revenue from multiple services is one key element of the platform idea.
READ MORE »Pronunciation Options
Increasingly, the options for independence involve one of two fundamental choices. One of those – the niche strategy – has more options available than ever before.
READ MORE »Audio Jambalaya
Several emerging solutions around AI-enabled voice assistants may finally help solve the documentation burden that has been laid on physicians.
READ MORE »There Goes the Neighborhood
CVS’s new Health HUB concept stores provide insight into the emerging healthcare strategy for the retail giant.
READ MORE »The Warm and Sleepy Anura Myth
A simple measure of healthcare affordability took a big jump in 2018, setting the stage for discussions of more and more extreme policy interventions.
READ MORE »Wale Friction
The high degree of friction in the processes between providers and payers shows just how far healthcare has to go to catch up with other industries.
READ MORE »Not Grandma’s Phone
Apple continues to move aggressively into healthcare, building an information-based platform company that will approach the market in very non-traditional ways.
READ MORE »My 2019 Cocktail Napkin Picture
As we move forward in 2019, we’ll work to organize the blog posts around four big ideas that are reshaping healthcare.
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Tim Coan, ALN’s CEO, writes an insightful and witty blog three times a week about a variety of topics relevant to independent physician practices.
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