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Co-opetition
An emerging trend in health care
By David J. Voller, MBA, FACHE
Co-opetition is a term that is emerging in business theory and is now gaining traction as an important part of health care. The principles and practices of co-opetition are credited to New York University and Yale business professors Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff. They introduced concepts in their book “Co-opetition,” first published in 1996. They posited a concept that involved the ideas of interfirm coopetition—the combination of cooperation and competition and how this affects collaborative innovation performance in competitive environments.
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COVID-19 Litigation: Cases and Defenses
BY Sandra M. Cianflone, J.D.
It’s been more than two years since the world was besieged by the coronavirus pandemic that disrupted our lives in ways big and small as the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) raced across continents.
Senior Care
Connected Communities: Aging well in greater Minnesotas
BY MARK ANDERSON, MBA, CEO
Minnesota is now home to one million older adults, approximately 20% of our state’s population. By 2030, one quarter of Minnesotans will be over 65. As CEO of Knute Nelson, a senior services provider based in Alexandria, I see these demographics directly affecting my rural community..
interview
Moving Medical Education Beyond the Classroom
Meghan Walsh, MD MPH FACP
Hennepin Healthcare
Minnesota health Care Roundtable
Care Transitions: Improving the safety net
The following report from the 54th session of the Minnesota Health Care Roundtable continued on the theme of our last program, which focused on improving the interoperability of care teams. In this session we are looking specifically at the topic of care transitions. As the scope of care teams expands, with an increasingly varied number and type of health care providers involved, the opportunity for unintended consequences also expands.
Patient Perspective
The Impact of COVID on People with Disabilities: A need for proactive planning
By Joan Wilshire, MPA
People with disabilities, or who have chronic medical conditions, or both, have faced increased and not surprisingly undocumented hardships during the COVID pandemic. Fear and uncertainty are two words that may best describe the feelings it has caused in many people among the disability community.
