Many of you know Paul Levy, CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Running a Hospital
Well, this is a good moment to revisit transparency. Earlier today, there was an article in the Boston Globe about the various problems that this transparency has surfaced: firings, wrong-side surgeries, and this past week, a maternal death.
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Tony asked me what I would miss as an hospital CEO? Let me begin by saying that I left teaching at age 31, and thirty months later I still very much miss the interaction with the students. Just yesterday, I received another E-mail from a 50ish year old IT executive telling me that my teaching [...]
I recently picked up Inc’s list of the 500 fastest growing private companies in America. #1 must be some technology company, or maybe a new company in energy, right? Much to my surprise, it is Senior Whole Health, a company that specializes in healthcare and other services for (wait for it…) the elderly poor.
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As a sophomore in high school biology, I was first introduced to the smell of formaldehyde. My initial rendezvous with a scalpel and a frog’s underside followed shortly thereafter. Having grown up near the woods, it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, and it surely allowed me to begin to completely grasp [...]
As I mentioned previously, I’ve been reading and today was struck by Mayo’s laser sharp focus on patient-centric care.
Now, of course, we’ve all heard about patient-centric care, but what is it really? Is it focusing on what the patient needs? or wants? And defined by who? (real example from the book) A physician who says [...]
In the July 3, 2008, Nature, a brief article titled “In rude health” explains the process that has evolved in the National Health Service of the United Kingdom that will result in “A treasure-trove of data in the UK National Health Service . . .that . . .is set to energize biomedical research.
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As we struggle on daily through the newly established higher fuel prices, several surprises have sprung up about that plenty of of us have been oblivious. Corn, for example, had become the American epitome of green. If we could grow enough corn to make ethanol, life would be fine. Then, we were accused of causing [...]
I recently read the cover story of the Sept/Oct 2008 edition of Healthcare Executive, “Technology in Healthcare” by Marc Larsen, FACHE.
“Not another article touting the benefits of technology, please” is honestly what came to my mind when I saw the title, but then I found myself nodding my head enthusiastically as I read through the [...]
When the word quality was discussed back in the 80’s, you often heard of the Baldridge Award or TQM, total quality management, as the programs that would take your organization to new heights. Today, more often than not, we hear about the Toyota Model of management or a more dated Six Sigma, 99.999999% approach to [...]
Apparently a lot more than we thought. Read this op-ed in the WSJ on an op-ed piece in the NYT. Here’s the money quote from the article written by Newt Gingrinch, John Kerry, and the data-driven-decision-making GM of the Oakland A’s:
America’s health care system behaves like a hidebound, tradition-based ball club that chases after aging [...]