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Christopher Kerns
- May 7
- 6 min
We're neither angry nor disappointed
As nearly everyone reading this will know by now, 2024 could be known in healthcare as the Great Retailer Retrenchment. (I coined that....
Christopher Kerns
- May 3
- 3 min
How nursing execs see the future
And here you thought all we talked about at Union was vertical consolidation and AI. Well today we're taking a look at the future of...
Christopher Kerns
- Apr 24
- 3 min
The flywheel and the hedge
We've been talking about the hedge-and-flywheel strategy of the big vertically consolidated healthcare companies for a while now, most...
Christopher Kerns
- Apr 16
- 3 min
Spending is up and mortality is down
The healthcare industry takes a lot of well-earned flack for cost, inefficiency, difficulty of use . . . I could go on, but I won't,...
Christopher Kerns
- Apr 10
- 2 min
How to judge a good AI investment
You've probably noticed that we—not unlike literally everyone else—have been covering artificial intelligence quite a bit lately. We've...
Christopher Kerns
- Apr 4
- 2 min
Get your execs up to speed on AI
Check out our excerpt from our healthcare strategy bootcamp on healthcare AI in the link above—and if you'd like complimentary access to...
Christopher Kerns
- Mar 26
- 3 min
The wheel turns on the PBMs
Everybody likes to pick on the PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) these days. It's a sector of healthcare whose business model...
Christopher Kerns
- Mar 21
- 3 min
When we hit a fifth of GDP
One of the most common laments I hear about the healthcare industry surrounds its share of the U.S. economy. Healthcare first hit 10% of...
Christopher Kerns
- Mar 13
- 2 min
This is what better looks like
At this point I think we can safely say that the healthcare workforce crisis has abated, but we still have a workforce situation across...
Christopher Kerns
- Mar 6
- 2 min
Doubling down on what I said
In Union's recent Board Briefing on where the smart money is going in 2024 (members can access the on-demand webinar here), I made a bit...
Christopher Kerns
- Feb 29
- 2 min
Finally delivering real scale in healthcare
Over the years, I've heard a lot of laments about the healthcare industry's lack of scale, usually as a way of wondering why healthcare...
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