Medical Economics August 17, 2025
Richard Payerchin, Todd Shryock

‘Precedents thinking’ and what other businesses have to teach health care about cutting administrative burdens.

What’s the best way to generate ideas to solve problems in business generally? In health care, specifically? Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA, an internal medicine physician and professor of medicine at Stanford University, explains why it is time to move beyond brainstorming with sticky notes to identify solutions to the administrative problems clogging the U.S. health care system.

Medical Economics: Applying precedents thinking to solve the problem of administrative costs and burdens in U.S. health care: an introduction

Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA:Some of my colleagues, Stefano Zenios and Ken Favaro over at the business school, have been working on this theory. Stanford’s a lot about innovation,...

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