Financial management of healthcare organizations is a highly fraught subject, and has become more so in the past few weeks. How do you run the finances of a big organization when the only measure of the value of your products is the reimbursements you are paid for...
Doesn’t any talk about a “cheaper” future of healthcare mean a huge loss of jobs? A fair question, but the answer is not as simple as you might think. In most communities, the hospital is one of the largest employers, if not the largest, and...
From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, September 9, 2008 Toward a value-based health care system. Do you get what you pay for in health care? How can you tell? What if you could tell?However we re-organize the payment of health care in the United States over the...
(From Physician Executive, September/October 2008) The answer to that question is undergoing a rapid, thorough, and historic shift. The very existence of a group with the hyphenated title “physician-executive” hints at the depth of the change.When people around the...
When John McCain talks about healthcare on the campaign trail, he often challenges people who point to Canada’s universal healthcare system as preferable to the U.S. system to “ask the Canadians how much they like it.” That’s a fair challenge....
The idea that government-run or government-financed healthcare is less efficient, more restrictive, or less responsive to the patient is a widespread belief – and there is not a shred of evidence for it. Take a look at this YouTube clip from a "Town...
