In the not-so-dis­tant past, you could poll 100 peo­ple and no one would list the word “cre­ative” in their list of top 10 words to describe the health care indus­try. Reg­u­la­tions and patient pri­va­cy con­cerns are just two of the many rea­sons health care has his­tor­i­cal­ly been among the indus­tries con­sid­ered most con­ser­v­a­tive in terms...Read More

With the hot top­ic of health care and an envi­able pan­el made up of CEOs from Sum­mit Ortho­pe­dics, Fairview Health Ser­vices, Health­Part­ners and Med­ica, it’s no sur­prise the inau­gur­al Min­neapo­lis-St. Paul Busi­ness Jour­nal Forum: Health Care Update event was sold out. My col­league Michelle Cook and I attend­ed the event, held last week on a snowy morn­ing in down­town...Read More