Executive Briefings
A series of insights from OPEN MINDS Founder and CEO, Monica E. Oss, Executive Briefings are crafted for executive leaders navigating the complexities of health and human services. Each briefing connects market intelligence with expert analysis to help guide strategy, respond to disruption, and improve organizational performance.
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(Finally) Planning Your Digital Transformation
September 15, 2025What’s driving digital transformation and the investment in new technology in health and human services? One factor is changing reimbursement—and anticipating performance-based and value-based reimbursement (VBR). According to a recent survey of provider organization executives—The Tipping Point: The State Of… -
The Engagement Issue
September 13, 2025The level of engagement of health care organization staff is on the decline again, dropping 0.02 points on a 5-point scale, after a slight rebound in 2023. A recent study—Healthcare Employee Experience 2025—found that 69% of health care employees are… -
The Whole Person Journey
September 11, 2025The collaborative care model (CoCM) is an important part of the move to whole person care in the health and human service system. Defined as a model that “leverages the coordinated efforts of a primary care or specialty medical care… -
The CCBHC Edge
September 10, 2025Certified community behavioral health center programs (CCBHCs) are mandated to provide some crisis services—including providing mobile crisis response within one hour (2 hours in rural/frontier areas) to individuals in the service area. This is a critical capacity function because, as of… -
The AI Leadership Challenge
September 9, 2025With all the discussion of AI, it’s hard to get a snapshot of where the business world is with it. Recent data from a new book—Superagency In The Workplace: Empowering People To Unlock AI’s Full Potential—shows that 92% of organizations… -
Making Whole Person Work On The Ground
September 8, 2025When it comes to whole person care models, the question is—what’s working? According to the report, Community Supports, Or In Lieu Of Services (ILOS), Annual Report, on California’s Medicaid reform initiative—California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM)—the uptake and outcomes of their… -
The Autism Metrics
September 6, 2025Autism is certainly making the national news. As our team was pulling together this overview of new developments in autism, the news outlets were covering the pending report from the Department of Health & Human Services that autism is linked… -
California Lessons
September 5, 2025With a population of nearly 40 million people and the fourth largest economy in the world—its $4.1 trillion gross domestic product outranks Japan, China, and Germany—what happens in California is noteworthy. And in the health and human service field, a… -
Expanding The Alternatives
September 4, 2025While there are many alternatives to traditional therapies for mental health and addictive disorders, uptake has been slow. Less than 60,000 U.S. consumers currently use any prescribed digital therapeutic (see Digital Health Trends 2024). Of U.S. adults receiving treatment for opioid use disorder,… -
Bring On The New Tools: Best Of The 2025Â OPEN MINDSÂ Aging In Place Summit
September 3, 2025Almost a quarter (24%), 63 million people, in the U.S. serve as a family caregiver. Of these, 59 million caregivers report caring for adults ages 18 and older, and 4 million report caring for a child under age 18 with…
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