Sunday, October 14, 2012

My arm's getting tired

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What's the right metaphor?  Am I beating a dead horse or what? As a person who has been engaged in public policy in a multitude of ...
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Stunned into silence

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I was talking with my soccer buddy Francesco about the common practice of Italians using their arms and hands when talking.  He related thi...
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How'd you sleep?

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How neat is this!  Science, Space & Robots reports: The Ibis hotel group is installing robots in its Berlin, London and Paris hot...
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

A tale of two soccer games

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If you had ever told me that I would issue a yellow card warning to an 11-year-old for dissent, I would have said you were crazy.  If you...
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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Election talk on WIHI

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Friday, October 12, 2012: Navigating the Elections with a Clear-Eyed View (1:00 – 2:00 PM Eastern Time) Featuring: ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Inertia supports Baumol's disease

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Steven Perlstein recently wrote a column for the Washington Post reminding us of a theory expounded by economists William Baumol and Wi...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Fenway and Longwood -- 1838 and 2012

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Fenway area -- 1838 Almost six years ago, I wrote a blog post about changes in the Longwood area .  Then a few months ago, a 20-year E...

The Times looks at hand-helds

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An excellent video on the NY Times site today, called " Mobile Devices 'On Call' in Hospitals ."  Worth watching.

How health care markets work

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Thanks to @scanman and @gruntdoc for retweeting this story. @ OMGfacts reports that MRI machines in the US are being made larger to acco...
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Monday, October 08, 2012

$90 million. Golly.

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In recent news reports, much was made of a gift by Partners Healthcare System, the ( by far ) dominant hospital and physician organization ...
Sunday, October 07, 2012

When you think about it that way . . .

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A friend of mine jokingly said, "What's all this talk about the US health care system being inefficient?  If we consider that the ...
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Friday, October 05, 2012

Mass. Eye and Ear shares outcomes

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The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary has published Quality and Outcomes 2012 .  In his introduction, CEO John Fernandez notes: Servi...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

Crowdsourcing advice

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For those audiobook lovers out there:  At popular request, I am preparing an audio version of my book, Goal Play!  Leadership lessons from ...
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In Memoriam: Lia Lee

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If there were only one book I could recommend to medical students and residents, it would be Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You an...

Oops, I forgot that detail

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On the subject of the Obama-Romney debate , it was curious to hear Mr. Romney's version of the MA health care reform legislative proces...

What about "All the News" don't you understand?

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The tendency of The New York Times to publish opinion pieces masquerading as news stories continues.  Let's take today's piece ab...

Seeing through the veneer

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I have mixed feelings about ambivalence.  On the one hand, as an economist, I believe in the power of pricing signals to influence behavi...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Sources

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There is a symbiotic relationship between reporters and anonymous sources.  They knowingly use each other, the reporter to get a story ...
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Lean is not negotiable

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Please check out this article by @SusanCarr (Susan Carr) on Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare, summarizing a recent Lean session at ...
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Monday, October 01, 2012

How a team degrades

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I was recalling the other day one of the exercises we used to sensitize senior executives in my former hospital's Lean training program...
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