Ebola: Fear, Not Facts Drive Frenzy
The response to Ebola has been drive by fear, not facts.
How to Avoid a Clinical Fair Hearing
Most medical staffs can easily avoid fair hearings by focusing on preventive actions and addressing potential performance issues early in a supportive and assertive manner
Optimize Healthcare Operations: Reduce Operating Costs with Physicians
Align physicians to reduce hospital, healthcare operating costs and optimize operations.
Work with Your Physicians to Reduce Your Operating Costs: Supply Chain
The supply chain is second only to labor in its significance as an operating cost and physicians can have a significant impact through their utilization of physician preference items (PPIs) and collaboration with management.
Patient Safety: Doctors, Nurses and Staff Must Hold Each Other Accountable
The field of patient safety became all too personal for me last week when my mother-in-law almost died from an iatrogenic C. Difficile infection of the large bowel caused by the inappropriate use of antibiotics and the failure of healthcare personnel to report their concerns to management or the family.
How to Work with Your Physicians to Reduce Operating Costs: Align Incentives
It is remarkable how much of a ‘disconnect’ there is between a healthcare organization’s strategic plan and how physicians are compensated and incentivized.
Rethinking the Hobby Lobby Decision
The recent and narrowly decided (5-4) Supreme Court case of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby is significant and bears further reflection and discussion. It gives for profit ‘closely held corporations’ (where five or fewer shareholders own over 50% of the company) the legal right to opt out of the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act’s…
How to Work with Your Physicians to Reduce Your Operating Costs, Part I
This is a five part blog that addresses How to Work with Your Physicians to Reduce Your Operating Costs.
The future of big data analytics in healthcare management
Big data has steadily moved to the forefront of healthcare as providers look for better ways to manage population health and produce improved medical outcomes for patients.
Population Health is the Next Big Thing
Population Health is the next ‘big thing’ and will require a complete transformation of not only our reimbursement system but of the fundamental business model for how we deliver healthcare services as well.