A successful change isn't just a dream (or nightmare). It requires creative, energetic leaders who can engage a diverse workforce in taking on health-care challenges
Because no one can predict the final outcome of health-care reform, providers of all shapes and sizes are preparing for a wide array of possibilities. Health care has seen this uncertainty before, and we believe that looking to the past for insight helps to illustrate what the future could hold for health-care providers.
While the Clintons' reform efforts in the mid-1990s didn't even make it to the floor of the House or the Senate, providers anticipating reform unleashed a wave of proactive innovations including formations of large regional and multistate health-care systems, investments in financial and clinical information systems, radical changes in supply chains, and leveraging of scale to negotiate rates with commercial insurance companies.
Original Article: Health-Care Reform and Innovation - BusinessWeek
