Tuesday, June 04, 2013

How a market works

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The landscape company I use bills me on a fee-for-service basis.  I get billed for every time they cut the grass. Sometimes, I think they...
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Time running out on a good deal at Tufts

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Lisa @lisagualtieri Gualtieri at Tufts University School of Medicine reminds us that the early registration discount for Digital Strateg...
Monday, June 03, 2013

Blue Button CoDesign Challenge

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Pat @Docweighsin Salber informs us of a crowdsourcing approach to designing medical information systems.  The folks at Health Tech Hatch ...
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Sunday, June 02, 2013

Another side of health care

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Many months ago, Holly Jarek wrote to me:  "I was wondering if sometime in the future, we might schedule a visit for you to come out ...
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Friday, May 31, 2013

One of these three is not like the others

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I borrow this old expression from Sesame Street to present a contrast that is indicative of the health care environment in the US, made all...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Goal Play! goes electronic--in every format

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My book Goal Play! , which has been available for some time only on Amazon (in print and Kindle versions), is now available at Smashwords ...

David Hartzband on Patient-Centered Coordination of Care

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Trust Frameworks and Asymptotic Identity Proofing: A Systems Approach MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series David Hartzband, ...

Sorry, your study is not PC . . . yet.

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@JordanRau at @KHNews ( Kaiser Health News ) has correctly framed the public policy issue raised by a new report: The idea that uneven Me...

Subversive brand readjustment at Abercrombie

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The e-pages have been full of stories about the statements made by the CEO of Abercrombie , e.g., “Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We ...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Screening inpatients for MRSA—case closed.

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It isn't often that you see a headline like this in the medical world.  But such are the conclusions reached by Michael B. Edmond, M.D....
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

When good teams go wrong

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Please take a look over at Athenahealth's Leadership Forum :  A new post about common lessons about dysfunctional teams and leaders fro...

Options? Subprime wasn't enough for you?

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Do you have the same reaction as I when you read this New York Times article ?  Excerpts: Some of the brokerage firms that helped pique ...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Closing the barn door after . . .

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The State House News reports that the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission "has chosen the proposed merger of the large Partners He...
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Sunday, May 26, 2013

What price is correct for transparency?

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As noted previously , the Massachusetts legislature has entrusted the handling of the all-payer claims database (APCD) to a new independent...
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Saturday, May 25, 2013

The best deal in America

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@HopkinsMedicine quality and safety leaders Peter Pronovost and Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb are offering a MOOC—a massive online open course...

A+ for Canton-Potsdam Hospital

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@TerryFairbanks, director of the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare , sends this story from the Daily Courier-Observer wit...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

Emita's gift to her children

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In honor of the yarzheit (anniversity) of my mother's death, I am reprinting a post from March 14, 2007.  The message remains import...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Some kind of service

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Best (worst) hotel service story I have heard: My friend Ray is taking a nap in his room in the afternoon and has put up the "do ...
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More pain, please?

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Have we gone overboard in hospitals in our desire to minimize pain?  Several years ago, there was a lot of effort to require hospitals to i...
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Monday, May 20, 2013

Stupid and cruel, both

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One of the signs of political sickness in America is the degree to which some Republican governors, apparently out of sheer spite for Presi...
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