The very forces creating a better, cheaper and more available health care industry also can be used to create monopolies, raise costs and degrade care. Which future strategic model will prevail? Rapid change is engulfing health care across the United States, but the...
Costs and revenue: This is the oxygen of any business, any organization. What are your revenue streams? How much does it cost you to produce them? Life is not just about breathing, but, if you don’t get that in-out equation right, there is nothing else life can...
(From the American Hospital Association’s H&HN Daily, September 25, 2012) Doing more with less. Doing the most for the least. Seems like the biggest magic trick ever. It’s invisible, people don’t seem to even notice you’re doing it. You do it every day. And...
In Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing it Right For Half The Cost I lay out the five strategies that healthcare must adopt, and is adopting in various ways and places, to make healthcare better and cheaper at the same time. Strategy Five is “Rebuild Every Process.” It’s...
A hospital that spends more upfront on evidence-based design will soon reap the payback in better outcomes. It was some doctor show on cable: Nurse McCarthy bustles into the hospital room, says “Good morning!” brightly, and crosses the brilliantly polished linoleum...
What a cliffhanger! It is an historic decision, found on the narrowest possible grounds, with a majority agreeing on the result, but not broadly on the reasoning. Effects: The principal effects of the finding, from the point of view of the system: They have just...
