Are Consolidation, Competition, and Innovation the Answer? Part 2: A Closer Look at Innovation
“Consolidation, competition, and innovation are the answer to what?”, you might ask. Keeping it simple, I mean the high cost of care and the Triple Aim. To keep it short I could just say, all three will help, but even maximized to the nth degree they will never in and...
Creating Healthcare Success Using Lean and Redefining the Relationship Between Managers and Clinicians
As I look back over my experience both as a practitioner and as a medical leader, I am reminded of the joke that the life of an anesthesiologist is composed of long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of terror. Nothing describes a moment of terror for me more...
Old Fashioned Values Applied to Complex Times in Healthcare
An “Interested Reader “ and friend recently sent me a eulogy that he delivered at his father-in-law’s funeral. Let me give it to you to read, and then invite you to think with me about Don Berwick’s recent call for Era 3, the “Moral Era” of healthcare. I...
Building a Causeway to The Mainland
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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