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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Finding Opportunities In Chaos
May 20, 2026Chaos is here to stay, and executives need to adjust their leadership and management practices to adapt. That was the theme of a recent article—How To Slay The Chaos Dragon. And it makes me tired. The authors argue that chaos has… -
Preventing The Drift
May 19, 2026Health care bankruptcies dropped in 2025—21% year-over-year from 2024, according to a recent analysis, Healthcare Restructuring: Trends And Outlook. But bankruptcies in the senior care sector and the hospital sector actually rose. The authors cite the primary drivers for these bankruptcies… -
Is Dr. Chatbot Legal?
May 18, 2026Earlier this month, the State of Pennsylvania sued Character.AI for sponsoring a chatbot that states it is a medical professional with a license (see State Sues AI Company After Bot Impersonates Doctor). A professional investigator from the Pennsylvania Department of… -
For Integration Success, Digital Anyone?
May 15, 2026Whole person care is certainly the goal of most payer and health plan executives—and preferred by consumers (see When You’ve Seen One). For provider organization executives, the strategic question is how to create (or plug into) integrated delivery systems. Traditional integration… -
Has AI Made You Invisible?
May 14, 2026Can consumers, health plans, and donors find you? A couple years ago, it was easier to answer that question. Most provider organization executive teams had invested in a website with good search engine optimization (SEO), a solid content plan, and… -
Getting On The AI Train
May 13, 2026If headlines are any indication, the use of AI in health care has the attention of policymakers, payer and provider organization executives, and clinical professionals. And one of the first major flashpoints is prior authorization. Just in the past couple… -
Finding ROI In MOUD
May 12, 2026The consumer outcome benefits of medication-assisted addiction treatment (MAT) for addictions are well documented, including higher remission (see Real-World Effectiveness Of Medication-Assisted Treatment And Psychotherapy For Opioid Use Disorder), increased odds of survival (see Evaluating The Optimal Duration Of Medication… -
Crafting Crisis
May 11, 2026A little over 5% of all emergency department visits (5,215 of 100,000 visits) in the U.S. were for mental health issues. And these visits vary by both consumer age and diagnosis, according to new data—Mental Health-Related Emergency Department Visits—released by… -
The Integrated Care Recipe
May 7, 2026One of the most common models for integrating primary and behavioral health services is the Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model (CoCM). And the use of the model is growing. Between 2018 and 2024, the number of commercially insured consumers involved in the… -
The Risk Plunge
May 6, 2026Many provider organization executives are “undecided” about the wisdom of pursuing performance-based or value-based reimbursement (VBR) with downside financial risk. I’ve always been a fan—assuming the rate setting is sound and the contract is well written. Why? Because it is…
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