Blocking a Healthcare Giant
Recently the Boston Globe reported that healthcare giant Partners Healthcare had abandoned a three-year effort to acquire South Shore Hospital in Weymouth. The Globe called it “an unprecedented setback for an organization used to getting its way.” If I ever needed to...
Consumerism in Healthcare
As I read through the many online journals and newsletters about healthcare, I am struck by the ubiquity of articles showcasing healthcare consumerism. I am increasingly interested in “consumerism” as an expression of patient-centeredness, and I often wonder if...
Healthcare, Education in Transition
In Silos to Systems (2010) Sally B. Kilgore and Karen J. Reynolds examine the current state of public education–with its concerns about funding, quality, and workforce–balanced against a culture that is stronger on its stated values than in its...
Emergence toward healthcare change?
Whenever I am outdoors and alone I usually have buds stuck in my ears and I am listening to something. Chopping, moving and stacking wood demands that I am simultaneously listening to something interesting. I was delighted when an hour or so into my task “Radiolab”...
Lean Can Address Burnout?
Why is it that the discussion of Lean so rarely becomes a discussion of how Lean can address the issues of burnout while reducing waste and improving value for patients? If Lean were presented with a more robust description and elucidation of its mechanisms that...
Burnout: Enemy of the Triple Aim
Burnout is the enemy of the Triple Aim. Some deny that it exists. Most press on with their work ignoring its symptoms in themselves and others. At times the impact can be disastrous for individuals and for practices. Burnout in clinicians often has an impact on...
27 February 2015 Healthcare Musings Newsletter
27 February 2015 Dear Interested Readers This Week’s Letter The letter has only one theme despite the appearance of three sections. If I review everything I have written over the previous seven years (this is the first letter of the eighth year) it all...
The Future of Healthcare Payment
Healthcare payment models are changing. Since the passage four years ago of the Affordable Health Care act, even the total optimists have become somewhat frustrated with the ups and downs of implementation, and many progressives continue to call for even greater...
20 February 2015 Healthcare Musings Newsletter
20 February 2015 Dear Interested Readers Inside this Weeks Newsletter The letter gets a new name this week: “Healthcare Musings” and may look a little different but inside things are still produced by the same “standard work”. My thinking about healthcare this...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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