MUSING – The Healthcare Solution: Looking in All the Wrong Places
June 25, 2013 | Gary PaquinAging boomers provide the catalyst for a more aggressive consumer participant approach to their health. The Internet gave them the [MORE]
MUSING – Healthcare Systems See a Compelling Need for Operational Intelligence
June 11, 2013 | Eric NovackSuccessful healthcare delivery networks must adapt to the increasingly challenging financial environment to achieve their fundamental mission of providing high [MORE]
MUSING – Entropy and the Exploding Hospital
March 19, 2013 | Rolf HaarstadWe are often asked as healthcare architects “What is the hospital of the future?” Perhaps the question is best posed [MORE]
MUSING – KEEN Musings
March 20, 2012 | Tim KriewallIs it time to change the way we educate engineers in America? About 20 private engineering colleges around the U.S. [MORE]
MUSING – Parallel Jubilees
November 29, 2011 | Terry Sharrer2011 was a jubilee year-50th anniversary-for two seemingly unrelated aspirations: manned space exploration and wellness. In May 1961, [MORE]
MUSING – Doctor, The Patient Will See You Now…
May 3, 2011 | Gary PaquinAndrew Schorr’s recent book, The Web-Savvy Patient: An Insider’s Guide to Navigating the Internet When Facing Medical Crisis, chronicles [MORE]
MUSING – The Trek Desk: Exercise, Work, and Lose Weight
August 31, 2010 | Pamela CiprianoAn increase in sedentary work has contributed to bulging bodies. People struggle making time to exercise, and many complain of [MORE]
MUSING – The Howze Effect
March 9, 2010 | Terry SharrerHarvard Professor Clayton Christensen coined “disruptive innovation” in 1997 to signifying something that unexpectedly changes a market. The glucose meter, [MORE]
MUSING – Automation as a Bridge
February 23, 2010 | Terry SharrerWhether or not healthcare insurance reform proceeds in Congress, true healthcare reform is proceeding. Its sources are molecular [MORE]
MUSING – The Transcendental Mrs. Lacks
February 2, 2010 | Terry SharrerPersonalized medicine evokes “big science”- large research grants, geonomic and proteomic instruments, bioinformatics data mining, individually “tailored” therapeutics, a slew [MORE]
What do the experts think about saving Medicare?
November 1, 2009 | Terry SharrerEvery hospital in the United States is now trying to figure out a strategy for breaking even on Medicare patients [MORE]
What you think is the #1 challenge in healthcare today? What medical technology can help to meet those challenges?
November 1, 2009 | Anand IyerWith the current raging debate about the American healthcare system, we are hearing conflicting, sometimes contentious, and frequently emotional viewpoints. [MORE]