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May 23, 2014
Anti-microbial qualities have been an obsession of consumer goods manufacturers for the better part of a decade. Part of this drive has been the media’s focus on exotic and potentially deadly pandemics—Ebola, bird flu, swine flu and the like—which seem to grab the headlines every other year or so. Now it is MERS, and Florida had […]
March 13, 2014
To be filed in the “We Saw That One Coming” folder is yesterday’s announcement by the Advisory Board that healthcare providers (and not just hospitals) may be required by Department of Health and Human Services to assess and beef up their disaster preparedness efforts. Although still in concept and yet to be fully defined, it […]
February 10, 2014
Healthcare is the place to be. Want proof? Healthcare is adapting retail concepts to help solve way finding problems, so says the Wall Street Journal. A hospital as hip as an airport or mall?! Healthcare, and wellness, are a #1 venture capital target for disruptive innovation and entrepreneurial investment—especially outsiders. Healthcare is interesting enough to […]
February 6, 2014
In my opinion, the Advisory Board promulgated one of the most important articles on healthcare in the past five years last week. The article in question was titled “Hospital CEO Wanted: No Healthcare Experience Needed“. The promise, not premise, of this article is: healthcare now has an appetite for ideas outside its industry. Furthermore, these […]
January 17, 2014
See previous post “HC Costs Parsed: What’s Missing?, Part I” 5. That leaves the last three cost drivers: “Fragmented and Uncoordinated Care”, “High Administrative Expenses” and “Unhealthy Behaviors”. Patients can only hope Un-fragmented and Coordinated Care is a fringe benefit of healthcare reform. Hospitals will need to solve that internally. And no one […]
January 16, 2014
Becker’s Hospital Report commented yesterday on the State Health Care Cost Containment Commission’s recent look at the “9 Drivers of Healthcare Cost in the U.S.”. A few items to note from the article: There should only be seven causes. Of the nine causes named, the last two, “Expensive End-of-life Care” and “Provider Consolidation”, should be […]
September 4, 2013
No sooner had I written about the massive impact of healthcare IT—and potential pitfalls in managing essential yet private personal patient data—than a triad of bad news regarding data integrity hit my inbox. First, the Adventist Health System had a security breach that led to more than 740,000 patient records being sold to private entities, […]
August 26, 2013
Becker’s Review reported today that North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has signed legislation requiring all hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) to submit common procedure pricing to the State. 140 common procedures will be monitored, with rates sent to the NC Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS) quarterly beginning in 2014. NC is not […]
May 21, 2013
If anyone wonders what healthcare could look like if a publicly traded retail giant dove head-first into healthcare, let me offer this article. Efficient healthcare, Walmart-style—imagine the possibilities! The subject of the article, Dr. Devi Shetty’s Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital, might ring a bell for readers, as it was featured in Fast Company as one of 2012’s […]
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