The Keckley Report

At the beginning of last week, media coverage focused on the Orlando massacre of 49 in the Pulse nightclub shooting. By the end, it had shifted to Thursday’s surprise Brexit…

Like so much in life, the concept of precision medicine is simple enough: to make sure the treatments and therapies used with patients match their unique genetic wiring based on…

I’m not an antitrust attorney, just a mere mortal trying to decipher how to balance the pressures of the market for hospitals and the threats from states and the feds…

The origin of hospitals dates back 2500 years to the facilities built by the ancient Greeks to serve their God of health, Asclepius, and to the third century B.C. Roman…

Millennials are the more important to healthcare than the industry recognizes: organizations that miss the signals they’re sending risk failure. Who are the Millennials? They’re the 75.4 million young, tech…

Last week, U.S. District Court of Appeals Judge Rosemary Collyer issued a ruling in House v. Burwell that could cripple the law. In her opinion, the President overstepped his Constitutional…

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act circa 2010 had two aims per its sponsors: to increase access to affordable insurance coverage and to reduce costs. Seventy-four months post-passage, the…

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is not a new idea. In corporate America, it’s widely recognized as an essential quality for effective leadership. Sadly, healthcare may be lagging other industries in addressing…

Opinions about the U.S. health system vary widely based largely on our individual experiences as users from time to time. And most Americans don’t think of it as a system…

Last weekend, I took my son, Jason, to StreamSong to celebrate his 40th birthday. 36 years ago, I didn’t think I’d see his 5th. At 20, I had completed college…