One door partially closes, but another opens wide.

Wise, dedicated, passionate and competitive--all words that accurately describe Merrill Goozner who in 2012 raised the bar for healthcare journalism when he took over the helm at Modern Healthcare.

Straight talk. Collaboration fosters connected health: a new paradigm of proactive heathcare.

The system of caring for people-the chronically ill, the elderly or even the fitness buff-is reactive, expensive and cumbersome. But a new paradigm of care, called connected health, promises to reduce costs and improve quality by working with patients proactively. How? Patients monitor their own health using electronic devices outside of the provider setting.

Straight talk new approaches to healthcare. The healthcare quality equation.

Though various health organizations may define and approach quality differently, the common denominator is the patient's perspective, experience and outcome. Quality issues should be an important part of health system executives' agenda. Successful quality programs have a number of key ingredients, including decision-reporting tools and business analytics information--which depend on robust information reporting and a system-wide electronic medical record--as well as highly motivated employees and physicians.

Straight talk. New approaches in healthcare.

Not-for-profit health systems are under the public microscope. Sen. Charles Grassley, (D-Iowa) chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has been critical of the charity care and billing practices of not-for-profit health systems, and vows to introduce legislation to correct abuses throughout the tax-exempt sector.