Thursday, June 09, 2011

Will JAMA ever open up?

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On the WIHI program today , I asked the following question of Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief of JAMA , the Journal of the ...
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Social media utility

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It's time to revisit and evaluate the utility of our social networks. Let me take a personal look at the three main ones I use (in addi...
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Reaching out to patients in their homes

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This is another in my occasional series about companies that are inventing new processes or leveraging expertise from other industries to e...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

JAMAing on WIHI

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Integrity On and Off the Page: A Discussion with JAMA ’s (Departing) Editor–in-Chief Thursday, June 9, 2011, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Time ...

Ron and Panera make a difference

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When I first heard of this idea from Panera Bread's Ron Shaich, I was impressed with both its elegance and its humanity. In simplest te...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Now, let's graduate to Lean 404

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I am borrowing some slides recently presented by James Womack , of the Lean Enterprise Institute, as a follow-up to my previous post about ...
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How do you get Lean?

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Lean is not a program. It is a philosophy of management and of organization in a firm or institution. The LEAN approach to things is bas...
Monday, June 06, 2011

Unqualified Successes

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This is a short retrospective about Massachusetts politics, but I present it for a purpose related to health care. In the 1970s and 1980...
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These Irish eyes are shining

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A story from the Emerald Isle. The Irish Times reports that Dr. Rhona Mahony has just been elected the first female Master of a Dublin ma...
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Saturday, June 04, 2011

Bittersweet memories of a soccer player

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It was a wonderful spring day for soccer today, and it served to bring back memories for me of Melissa Leung. Melissa was an eighth grader ...
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Friday, June 03, 2011

Don't you already know if you are a drug user?

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A friend saw this cocaine at-home drug test kit for sale at Duane Reade in New York City. I was stunned, but I guess I am naive. After all...
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Thursday, June 02, 2011

Some of my best friends are in private equity

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Like moths to a flame, private equity investors are quick to pounce on those sectors of the economy that have the potential for higher than ...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2011

The experts agree on transparency

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It can feel lonely out here when you are beating the drum for transparency as a necessary supportive adjunct to process improvement. So it ...
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A hat trick for Jillian

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Regular readers know the pleasure I get in coaching soccer, watching the kids learn and excel, and then staying in touch with them as they m...
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Getting transparency right

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This is about transparency, when it is useful and when it is not. The term is now an established part of the health care lexicon, but there...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Kudos to Glen Cove Hospital

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The folks at Glen Cove Hospital are on a roll. Last October , they were listed by the New York State Department of Health as having the low...
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Monday, May 30, 2011

Bach and Kocher: Good try. Wrong plan.

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Peter Bach and Robert Kocher offer an intriguing but wrong-headed approach to expanding the roster of primary care doctors in America. In a...
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The Infrastructure Chronicles -- Volume 8

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In December of 2005, there was a breach of the dam holding back the 50-acre Tom Saulk reservoir in Missouri. This created what was called a...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

The Infrastructure Chronicles -- Volume 7

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Fred Salvucci, transportation engineer extraordinaire in Boston, has often told this humorous story about his grandfather: When my grandfath...
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Person or system problem, or both?

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I am going to do something really wrong, commenting without knowing all the facts. But guessing from a press report, I am betting that this ...
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