POSTS TAGGED AS healthcare

Disney’s Concept of Healthcare Excellence

In 2004, Fred Lee published If Disney Ran Your Hospital, 9 ½ Things You Would Do Differently, based on [MORE]

Top 10 US Healthcare Systems

Using publicly-available MedPAR data, business analysts at Thomson Reuters rated hospital systems (not individual hospitals) based on in-hospital mortality, [MORE]

Surviving Cancer, Facing Bankruptcy

Not long ago, opponents of healthcare reform asserted that the US had the best healthcare system in the world [MORE]

Perspective on Market-Based Health Insurance

As people put off elective healthcare during the current recession, insurance company profits rose because of fewer payouts.  However, [MORE]

Hospital Errors: One in Three Patients

Emergency patient in hallway waiting for a bed
“SSE” is a healthcare acronym for serious safety event, which can result in [MORE]

50 Year Perspective on Robotics

This piece hardly mentions medical or healthcare robotics, but its review of changes in vision, force control and tactile [MORE]

Hospital Adverse Events-180,000 of Them

The combined total of deaths in the US from Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and septicemia is roughly the same as [MORE]

Downloadable White Papers on Change Management

“Turning Product Development into Competitive Advantage,” “10 Ways to Establish a Strategic Advantage in Managing Change,” and a “Practical [MORE]

Healthcare Innovations-Mainly for Poor Countries

The McKinsey Quarterly surveys healthcare payer and provider services around the world, mentioning Mexico’s “Medical Home” telemedicine service that provides [MORE]

Dartmouth’s New Center of Healthcare Delivery

An anonymous donor has contributed $35m that Dartmouth College will use to create a multidisciplinary Center for Health Care Delivery [MORE]

4,525 Healthcare Lobbyists for 535 Members of Congress

For the battle over healthcare reform, some 1,750 companies and organizations deployed 4,525 lobbyists to argue their points before Members [MORE]

The Data Crush

The Analystics group of the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) recently found that nearly every hospital IT executive [MORE]

Digital Patients: Digital Care, Denmark

Denmark’s national health system is tax-financed, even if perceived to be “free.”  For that reason, the Danish government has [MORE]

Billions $ in Wasted US Healthcare Costs

Unnecessary care, administrative inefficiency, provider errors, preventable conditions, and lack of care coordination add up to a large waste bill [MORE]