Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Natural Disaster Response on WIHI

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May 16, 2013: Reliable Practices for Responding to Natural Disasters: Lessons from North Shore-LIJ and Hurricane Sandy (2:00 PM...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Big Blue pushes accessibility, with help from others

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Back in the late 1970s, when I was Director of the Arkansas Department of Energy, the state disabilities commission ran an awareness event ...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Regina + Dave = Something else!

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I feel grateful to know @ReginaHolliday (Regina Holliday) and to watch her use her artistry and her language as one of the world's most...
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Sunday, May 12, 2013

"It's not our job."

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Some people were criticizing me the other day when I suggested that CMS was wasting its time by publishing hospital chargemaster data whil...
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Brava to Tejal and NPSF!

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The Board of Directors of the National Patient Safety Foundation have done a very, very good thing in appointing Tejal K. Gandhi to beco...
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Friday, May 10, 2013

The Orange Line

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I am very pleased to announce the publication of The Orange Line, A Woman's Guide to Integrating Career, Family and Life .  Here'...
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Thursday, May 09, 2013

And now presenting . . . robotic lap choles!

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As a non-medical person, I was so excited when I could say "laparoscopic cholecystectomy" without pausing or tripping over all th...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Useless noise from CMS

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What on earth did CMS have in mind when it released the FY2011 chargemasters for America's hospitals?  Well, according to one report : ...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Creating an insatiable appetite for improvement

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John S. Toussaint and Leonard L. Berry masterfully set forth the essence of Lean in an article entitled, " The Promise of Lean in Heal...
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Monday, May 06, 2013

Now on e-books: How a Blog Held Off the Most Powerful Union in America

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I'm pleased to be able to offer my new book on all e-book platforms.  Just go to this Smashwords page , and you can find the whole gamu...
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@EricTopol says, "Show me the data!"

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Many of us were excited when it was announced in February that Eric Topol would be the new editor-in-chief at Medscape.  I think big thing...
Sunday, May 05, 2013

The thoroughbreds were in MD, not KY

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As I headed to BWI airport early Friday morning, my seatmate turned and asked if I was staying on the flight to connect to Louisville, to...
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In memoriam: Ricardo Portillo

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You probably haven't heard of Mr. Portillo, of Murray, Utah.  Here are excerpts and pictures from the AP : A Utah soccer referee wh...
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Thursday, May 02, 2013

This story was not from The Onion

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It was not my plan to publish another post on this topic for some time, but you'll soon see why I felt compelled to. As I was writing...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Aging in Place on WIHI

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May 2, 2013: Home for Life, Aging, and Aging in Place 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET Featuring: Sharon J. King, Principal, Starfiel...

What, me boisterous?

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@BGlennWrites (Brandon Glenn), writing at Medical Economics , names me as "perhaps Epic's most boisterous critic" because of ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Boston College MBA students pose the questions

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I've been invited to lecture at many business schools around the country, but tonight's experience at Boston College was pleasantly...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

An investment banker asks a question

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This is a true story.  An investment banker friend, very astute as to the issues surrounding private equity investments but not so familiar...
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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Rushdie on moral courage

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Salman Rushdie, who knows of such things in away most of us will never experience, asks the question in a New York Times article, "...
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Saturday, April 27, 2013

One of the best

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My UK friend and colleague Isam Osman posted this note on Facebook today: Yesterday the Sudan lost one of its great medical pioneers Pro...
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