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...
by Rick Ybarra | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog
There has been much discussion in health reform about using data to determine program effectiveness leading to improved population health. Questions like which programs work and which don’t, and which programs are making real impact, are being asked and answered...
by Rick Ybarra | Mar 25, 2016 | Blog
“The future ain’t what it used to be.” – Yogi Berra On that note, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) recently published an important brief highlighting exciting and innovative payment reform efforts designed to improve health care and lower costs in...
by Rick Ybarra | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog
A recent policy brief published in the Journal of American Board of Family Medicine (JABFM) reports that, although an increasing number of primary care physicians are incorporating nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians’ assistants (PAs) into their patient care...
