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WALKABOUT (HOW THE EMPEROR GOT NEW CLOTHES)

The first thing I needed to do when I arrived at Amedisys in December 2014 was learn the company’s strategy and determine if and how it should change. During my time consulting with Amedisys, I had concluded that the company’s strategy of becoming an industrywide technology provider was off track, but I needed to make sure.

After my initial conversations with the leaders of our company’s new technology platform, AMS3, I questioned whether my first impression of our technology strategy was wrong. Everyone at corporate headquarters emphasized to me how powerful and transformative our technology could become. I reviewed detailed workflow architecture and schemas, heard the chorus of attributes the technology ...

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