by John G. Self | Sep 23, 2013 | Current Affairs, Healthcare, Leadership
John is off today. The following blog first appeared in July of 2009. Reforming healthcare is one of the most complex, daunting and important tasks of this decade. What began with great hope and good intentions to avoid the reform mistakes of the past is now going...
by John G. Self | Jul 17, 2012 | Current Affairs, Healthcare, Leadership
One of the hidden benefits of being a healthcare recruiter is that you get to see, firsthand, the rich irony that plagues our industry. Healthcare is one of the most technologically impressive businesses in the nation—where modern miracles happen every day—yet the...
by John G. Self | Jul 3, 2012 | Healthcare, Technology
What do BlackBerry and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have in common? Within the next seven years they will both be irrelevant, an asterisk in the history of business. For BlackBerry it will probably happen sooner. They got too comfortable. Their corporate leaders...
by John G. Self | May 31, 2011 | Current Affairs, Healthcare
We hear a lot these days — some would say 20-30 years too late — that Congress can no longer kick the deficit/debt can down the road. Of course, the clear and factually accurate implication of this statement is that Congress has seen this deficit/debt...
by John G. Self | Sep 14, 2010 | Healthcare
Healthcare leaders have two choices as the industry begins its uncertain journey into an era of “reform” and reductions in Medicare and Medicaid funding. They can embrace the changes and get out in front, or they can stand pat, waiting to see what...
