The reaction in certain quarters to the healthcare reform provisions of the stimulus bill now clearing Congress lays bare the nature of opposition to the forthcoming fight for real change in healthcare: It will be viciousness at the top of the lungs. It will be...
From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, November 11, 2008 Too often, ideas take on a partisan coloration, doubly so in an election year. And the colors are often rather arbitrary. From a systems-thinking point of view (and shorn of their partisan labels), which...
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...
