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Christopher Kerns
Jun 18, 20246 min read
Understanding the health system CFO
In many (most) cases, the health system CFO is the Final Boss Chief financial officers (CFOs) are probably the most sought-after...


Amanda Berra
Jun 7, 20245 min read
Theory versus reality in the state of healthcare disruption
Healthcare disruption has been a hot (and noisy) topic in recent years. For the last decade, the healthcare industry has been rich in...


Christopher Kerns
May 14, 20245 min read
According to our new arrival, life is more than mere survival
And if you got that reference in the title, please make sure you're up to date with your colonoscopy screening, because you're the right...


Christopher Kerns
May 7, 20246 min read
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, 20243 min read
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
Mar 13, 20242 min read
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
Jan 25, 20249 min read
The big bet of General Catalyst and Summa Health
Last week’s announcement that General Catalyst had signed a letter of intent to acquire Summa Health been awaited for several months....


Kirsta Hackmeier
Jan 3, 20247 min read
The future of innovation—previewing Union’s latest report
We at Union Healthcare Insight are kicking off the new year the same way we closed last year: Keeping a sharp eye on healthcare...


Kirsta Hackmeier
Jul 25, 20235 min read
Disruptive distributors—new entrants in the provider acquisition game
In April our CEO, Christopher Kerns, kicked off our series on vertical integration with a post on the state of healthcare...


Amanda Berra
Jun 29, 20238 min read
What to make of the millions of dollars Hopkins spent on quality data reporting
Use board-type context questions to turn one surprising statistic into general healthcare insights An interesting new study, “The Volume...


Christopher Kerns
Mar 23, 20236 min read
What if this is as good as it gets?
What if health system margin pressures don’t relent? I don’t want to count the number of times I have written about health system margins...
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