Healthcare Mergers Don’t Fail Because of Culture

They Fail Because IT Leadership Lies to Itself.  Let’s stop using culture as a cover story.  When healthcare mergers fail, leadership almost always reaches for the same explanation: misaligned culture, resistance to change, people issues.  It sounds reasonable. It sounds empathetic. It is also a lie of convenience.  Healthcare mergers fail because leaders knowingly defer the hardest technical

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The Biggest Risk in Healthcare M&A Isn’t Compliance

The Biggest Risk in Healthcare M&A Isn’t Compliance It’s the Illusion of Operational Continuity. Compliance isn’t what breaks healthcare mergers. Believing you’re operationally stable does. Healthcare executives obsess over regulatory risk during mergers. HIPAA. HITRUST. Audit readiness. Policy alignment. Those risks are real.They are also rarely the reason a merger

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