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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Who Can You Trust?
November 5, 2025When you read “news” and “facts” online, who can you trust? This week, a lot of “experts” got fooled. Fox News published a story that used artificial intelligence (AI)-generated videos that falsely showed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients threatening violence… -
The AI Trust Gap: Best Of The 2025 OPEN MINDSÂ CEO Tech & AI Summit
November 4, 2025Health care professionals and health care consumers have a different view of the benefits of and potential for AI–not surprisingly. For clinicians, the current system is fraught with problems. In a recent survey—Building Trust In Healthcare AI: Perspectives From Patient And… -
Child First & Center
November 3, 2025It has been almost 30 years since the original Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study—Relationship Of Childhood Abuse And Household Dysfunction To Many Of The Leading Causes Of Death In Adults—was conducted at Kaiser Permanente from 1995 to 1997 (see About… -
AI & The Human Factor
November 1, 2025A recent survey of U.S. business leaders—AI Quarterly Pulse Survey: Q3 2025—found that 42% of those organizations are using artificial intelligence (AI), and 55% are currently piloting new uses. Not surprising. The executives reported a range of challenges in achieving… -
Will You Be Replaced By Technology?: Best Of The 2025 OPEN MINDS Technology & Analytics Institute
October 31, 2025“Will you be replaced by technology?”“Can you replace your staff with automation driven by artificial intelligence?” Those were questions asked more than once at last week’s 2025 OPEN MINDS Technology & Analytics Institute. The answer is, of course: It depends. And that could… -
What A Difference A State Makes
October 30, 2025A new look at health insurance coverage—Health Insurance Coverage By State: 2023 And 2024—found that the uninsured rate for all ages increased in 18 states and the District of Columbia and declined in two states from 2023 to 2024. As… -
Should You Kill Your Organization?
October 29, 2025Earlier this week, I got an email with the subject line—“Should you be trying to ‘kill’ your company?” In the article, I’ve Been Paying A Team To Kill My Company, the author advocates for the creation of autonomous business units (ABU)… -
Agile Because…
October 28, 2025What keeps chief financial officers (CFOs) and CFOs-to-be up at night? According to a new survey, Finance Trends 2026: Navigating The Expanded Scope Of Finance, five key issues top their list of concerns. Two of these priorities are typical financial concerns—the… -
Challenges Create Opportunities
October 27, 2025Access to care is one of the key measures of performance in behavioral health systems—both public and private. And according to a new analysis—The State Of Mental Health In America—Vermont is doing the best job of assuring access to mental… -
RCM Is Tops
October 25, 2025What are the leading health care technology investments of provider organizations this year? Revenue cycle management (RCM) technology tops the list with 49% of executives identifying it as a top priority. That was followed by clinical workflow optimization technologies and electronic…









