by Rick Ybarra | Sep 2, 2016 | Blog
The nationwide movement to advance Integrated Health Care (IHC) as a standard of care continues! It has been a mountain climb, but we have made significant progress over the past five to seven years moving incrementally towards the summit. To date, numerous studies...
by Rick Ybarra | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog
Re-engineer. Reinvent. Rightsize. Reorganization. Restructure. Change over. Shift. Conversion. Turnaround. Just a few of the terms used to indicate transformation. The ultimate goal of transformation is to respond to market changes by changing the way business...
by Rick Ybarra | Jul 6, 2016 | Blog
Our health care system stands at a crossroads as it struggles with how to appropriately finance health care. The fee-for-service system, the dominant payment model in the U.S., is widely recognized as perhaps one of the single biggest obstacles to reforming health...
by Rick Ybarra | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog
A personal and deeply moving article appeared in The Atlantic on June 8 titled How to Fix A Broken Mental-Health System. The author shares the personal account of his son’s battle with severe mental illness and points to the shortcomings of today’s mental health...
by Rick Ybarra | May 25, 2016 | Blog
A Harvard Business Review article dated April 26, 2016, got me reexamining the cliché “let’s not reinvent the wheel.” When one thinks of startups, innovators, and entrepreneurs, we often look west to Silicon Valley, the heart and soul of the technology industry. Many...
