Healthcare Musings For June 30, 2023

Healthcare Musings For June 30, 2023

June 30, 2023 Dear Interested Readers,   Where Does Your State Rank?   Every year The Commonwealth Fund ranks the healthcare in each state. This year’s rankings were published last week on June 22 in an article entitled “2023 Scorecard on State Health...
Healthcare Musings For December 17, 2021

Healthcare Musings For December 17, 2021

December 17, 2021 Dear Interested Readers,   Collective Action Problems. Healthcare Is Definitely On The List   Recently, the weather has been warmer, and I have enjoyed returning to my old routine of walking daily. I don’t know how long it will be possible....
Thinking About Transformation: My Story

Thinking About Transformation: My Story

  The “serious” section of Friday’s post was entitled “Preparing For Transformation.” At the end of the post after talking about the transformation that Joe Biden was trying to lead as we emerge from the pandemic I promised that I would be returning to the...
Building The New Normal With Lean

Building The New Normal With Lean

  As we move into an attempt to recover from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have begun to think about how the delivery of healthcare will be changed by what we have experienced. Some have suggested that the pandemic has revealed serious flaws...
Healthcare Musings For 29 November 2019

Healthcare Musings For 29 November 2019

  29 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Have You Heard Enough In The Democratic Debates About Healthcare?    It’s been a little more than a week since most of the Democratic contenders for the nomination for president gathered in Atlanta for their...
The Challenge of Finding Time

The Challenge of Finding Time

I recently read Dr. Jerome Groopman’s marvelous 2007 book, How Doctors Think. His book caused me to refocus on the importance of “time” as we consider the complexities of healthcare, and look for solutions that will promote our quest for the Triple Aim. The book came...