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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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… -
The Outcome Matters
October 24, 2025So it has been 39 months since the launch of 988 (see U.S. 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Is Live As Of July 16, 2022). The question for most public policy analysts—at both the national and state level—is has the… -
It’s Not The Tool
October 23, 2025Greetings from Philadelphia and the closing day of the 2025 OPEN MINDS Technology & Analytics Institute. It’s been an information-packed three days with a focus on tech strategy, tech investments and budgeting, regulation, payer policy, emerging tech applications, and more.… -
The Tech Moving Target
October 22, 2025Greetings from Philadelphia and the 2025 OPEN MINDS Technology & Analytics Institute. This week is a deep dive into all things technology with 600+ health and human service executives from across the country. Of particular interest is what technology health and human… -
The Safety Factor
October 21, 2025Earlier this year, violence in health care facilities became a local reality here in central Pennsylvania (see Officer Killed In UPMC Memorial Hospital Shooting, Hostage Situation; Multiple Injured). But this tragedy at our local hospital is unfortunately just an example… -
Finding Your Core
October 20, 2025The many pending changes in policy and funding in the health and human service field present both business and ethical dilemmas for executives. As the number of consumers without insurance increases, what consumers will have access to free and low-cost… -
The Medicaid Moving Target
October 18, 2025Current (and future) Medicaid enrollment is a key market metric for most health and human service organizations. According to the most recent data—Medicaid Enrollment And Unwinding Tracker—as of June 2025, there are 77.7 million people enrolled in Medicaid and the…
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