Since the beginning of this year, two bills, companion legislation in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, have been introduced to end discrimination against physicians and improve care for patients.
Category: Hospital-Centric Healthcare
The expression lead, follow, or get out of the way has more than a kernel of truth to it.
Who likes to make the bed? Apparently not hospitals, because an increasing number are building new “bedless” facilities. Reception area/waiting room? Check! Operating rooms? Check! Patient monitoring? Check! Inpatient rooms? Heck no! All of the overnight rooms are the patients’ own rooms at their homes. There’s no need to build them. There’s no need to staff […]
The first time that I saw a computer there were two in the room. One of them took up most of the south side of a floor of the Computer Science Building and the other took up most of the north side.
You probably already know that it is my firm belief that hospitals, at least as we know them, are basically dead. They just don’t know it yet. What I mean is that the majority of surgery cases are going to be shifting out of hospitals.
It was 9:00 p.m. The restaurant was clearing out. I was eating alone after returning to the hotel following a meeting. There he was at a table seventeen feet away, talking to another man. At first I thought that they were on a date, but then I realized that “G” was trying to charm “X” […]
I just read an article on Modern Healthcare’s website about balance billing in the out-of-network context.
People, not institutions, are capable of morality. At best, institutions are amoral. At worst, they are immoral.
The key is to adopt both a short term and a long term view of your business.
Seasons come and seasons go and they do this in healthcare, too, where they are called trends or perhaps lean six sigma.