To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. He invented the world’s first portable drug infusion pump which, among other applications, has revolutionized diabetes care. Jamie Jones/Getty Images. MORE
One of those was excessive health care costs. Health care is extremely expensive everywhere. But in the USA the health care system is twice as costly as other rich countries. Related: USA Health Care Spending 2013: $2.9 Decades ago W. MORE
I intentionally keep politics out of my posts on this blog as much as possible. It is becoming difficult – politics permeates every facet of life these days. But this one was too important to ignore. It comes from Paul Krugman’s New York Times column earler this week, Patients Are Not Consumers. Here’s the key [.]. Randy's blog entries church vs. faith community Kenneth Burke patient vs. consumer Paul Krugman Winston Churchill Words that Work MORE
Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). Its network of twenty-three hospitals and 160 clinics provides more than half of all health care delivered in the region. MORE
Skip Steward, Chief Improvement Office (CIO) for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis, Tennessee is the latest guest on the Deming Podcast ( download the podcast ). podcast case study culture health care quality tools MORE
Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. The Helix (Healthcare Innovation Exchange) Centre opened in 2014 to respond to increasing pressures on the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. To source ideas, it often runs two-day hack-a-thons on specific health care challenges. MORE
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I love student speeches. Not all of them… but enough to matter. In the last week, I’ve heard some pretty good speeches on the Ku Klux Klan, the Vietnam War, Watergate. (It’s It’s really fun to hear a speech from a student who knows nothing about her subject except from her own research. Watergate is ancient […]. Randy''s blog entries MORE
This shift has the potential to disrupt the alarming trajectory of rising health care costs at exactly the moment when aging Baby Boomers will be putting more pressure on the health care system. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has been around since 1984. MORE
For example, many hospitals are now engaged in making changes to improve their performance and the quality of care they provide. Change leaders need to take care of their physical health, invest in their personal life, and make sure there's a balance there. . By Guest Author Pamela Shaheen DrPH. Healthcare organizations seem to be particularly challenged in reinventing themselves when compared to other industries. . Why is that? MORE
Democrats and Republicans have created a health care system in the USA over the last 40 years that “burns toast” at an alarming rate. As the symptoms of their health care system are displayed they call in people to blame for burning toast. MORE
The conventional wisdom—that the best care is delivered in-person by experienced caregivers—may soon be overturned. Rising health care costs , a shortage of physicians , and a rapidly aging population are making the traditional model of care increasingly unsustainable. But new uses of virtual health and digital technologies may help the industry manage these challenges. health system over the next few years. Phil Marden/Getty Images. MORE
Here are a few charts that will put our cost, spending and compensation for healthcare into perspective. Enjoy! National Healthcare Expenditure (NHE). Using a conservative annual growth rate of 4% (from Deloitte’s baseline year of 2010), Deloitte suggests the following as our real NHE. MORE
In particular, the still-evolving field of behavioral economics provides opportunities for employers to use evidence-based strategies to improve the health of their workforce. Jesse is joined by Dr. Derek Yach from the Vitality Institute, to discuss the reasons for this health care gap – and what your company can do to engage your workforce for better health and productivity. Derek Yach has focused his career on advancing global health. MORE
For all the hard work to improve coordination and collaboration in health care, most hospitals are still organized into silos based on clinical specialties — and communication among them is uneven at best. Leading Change in Health Care. MORE
SWOT analysis for Nurses and Health care environments Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats in a health care environment. Management example health care infection control nursing sample SWOT analysis templateSWOT – for management, mentoring and nursing A SWOT analysis is a tool that can provide prompts to the managers, clinical leads, nurse tutors, nurse mentors and staff involved in the analysis of what is effective and [.]. MORE
The starting point for achieving value in any health care system is to measure outcomes. Through regular interaction with our global network of value innovators, we at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement ( ICHOM ) have developed a 10-step implementation “blueprint” that any provider can follow. You need to have senior management that really understands what value-based health care (VBHC) is all about. MORE
All of the tactics used by the oil, beverage, and banking industries to influence lawmakers at every level of government were pulled straight from the cigarette makers’ playbook: Distract people from the real problem; generate fear; split communities with rhetoric, pitting one group against another; encourage people to doubt scientific conclusions; question whether there really […]. Randy''s blog entries MORE
This increases the need for health care and for assistance with everyday tasks from the elderly. Japan is also among the leading countries for developing robots for health care and living assistance. Japan has an extremely rapidly aging population. MORE
At Sanford Health, a $4.5 billion rural integrated health care system, we deliver care to over 2.5 All this data clearly represents a rich resource with the potential to improve care, but until recently was underutilized. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. With this access, academic partners are advancing their own research while providing real-world insights into care delivery. MORE
In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it. MORE
The new Republican tax bill, which the House passed this afternoon and the Senate is expected to approve tonight, is complex, but what it will mean for health in the United States is simple: less. It will mean less health insurance for individuals; less coverage for elderly and poor Americans; less revenue for doctors, hospitals, and myriad health care businesses; and, quite possibly, a less-healthy, less-productive workforce. Many will also lose health insurance. MORE
Early efforts to publish performance data about doctors and hospitals usually required a strong external force, such as pressure from a state department of health. This development may seem small, but if the trend grows, it will drive improvements in the quality of care. HBR STAFF. MORE
Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. As medical professionals first, they do what it takes to provide the best care, even if that sometimes means ignoring or going around security policies (as 4% report). MORE
News item #1 — Hospital health care personnel were not “ready” for the Ebola crisis to arrive. It’s sort of hard to miss the big news of the last few days. News item #2 — Peyton Manning threw for four touchdowns, and broke the all-time touchdown passing record. Both, pretty big news items. So, I […]. Randy''s blog entries MORE
Providing health care in rural regions presents unique challenges. And vast distance can hinder the dissemination of best practices and coordination of care. At Sanford Health, one of the largest rural health-care-delivery systems, we’ve tackled this challenge by leveraging an array of technologies to provide high-value care to a population of around 2 million, dispersed across 300,000 square miles in the Dakotas. Transforming Health Care. MORE
GDP dedicated to health care as fertile ground for expansion. Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families. At its root, health care is a service that needs to be delivered to a customer. Health care is similar. MORE
Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Like banks, airlines, and retailers, health care providers will need to offer an easy, digital front-end experience to their customers. This isn’t just about building fancy new websites, but undertaking true care redesign: becoming adept at delivering high-quality, cost-effective virtual care through telehealth and digital tools. MORE
Some health care leaders view with trepidation the new, disruptive health care alliance formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase. If this trio can disrupt the United States’ health care system into consistently delivering high-value care, we will all owe them our gratitude. That’s the big takeaway of University of Utah Health’s The State of Value in U.S. Health Care survey. HBR STAFF. MORE
That’s why cultures in health care organizations need to be life-giving in order to energize health care workers who give so much of themselves to their patients. In some health care-related fields, as many as one-third of employees leave their jobs each year. You can’t give what you don’t have. MORE
IT’S TIME TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR ORGANIZATION’S HEALTH! Schedule an appointment with your organization’s health care provider (you do have one right?) We’re providing some of our resources to help you and your health care provider (you do have one right?) determine what health services and screenings are best for you and your team. WHERE CAN I GO FOR HEALTH SERVICES? AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION. MORE
Bundled payments — single payments that cover all the care for a patient’s medical condition or treatment over a specified timeframe — are increasingly being deployed to motivate the delivery of better patient outcomes at lower costs. MORE
The consensus is that health care costs are too high, and rising too rapidly. There is in fact a consensus out there. But the consensus evaporates with the question of how to fix it. One man who has thought a lot about this is Atul Gawande. Dr. Gawande is a surgeon, he teaches surgery at [.]. Randy's blog entries Atul Gawande The Checklist Manifesto The Cheesecake Factory MORE
policy and institutions is unclear, but their approach to health care reform will have profound impacts on the health and well-being of the American people and on the U.S. Trump’s stated goal is to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), but the details of his plan are still unknown. Turning a blind eye to the potential for such a reaction could undermine efforts to build an efficient, high-quality health care sector. MORE
“Paying for value” is one of the most overused tropes in health care today. To those who pay the bills — employers, health plans, and even the government — value often means paying as little as possible for services. MORE
This is especially true in health care, where people’s hopes and fears tend to get magnified quickly. Consider three issues that get a lot of attention: the use of medical records, the “human touch” in medical care, and the future of jobs in the industry. More and more people are turning to wearable health devices, for example. And 72% are fine with their health insurers having that information. (On Health Care’s New Frontier. MORE
An announcement on January 24 didn’t get the large amount of attention it deserved: Apple and 13 prominent health systems, including prestigious centers like Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania, disclosed an agreement that would allow Apple to download onto its various devices the electronic health data of those systems’ patients — with patients’ permission, of course. health care system. Health Care’s New Frontier. MORE
Health care consumerism is a key part of most employers’ strategies for workforce health engagement. This involves tools, resources, education, and motivation to help employees and family members make decisions that optimize health outcomes and cost-effectiveness. It could be choosing an appropriate hospital, a treatment type, a medication, follow-up care, whether […]. Workforce Health Engagement™ workforce health engagement MORE
As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. MORE
If the health care industry followed suit, the impact on the quality and cost of care, the patient’s experience, and innovation could be enormous. The impact of open, standardized APIs in health care would be even more significant. MORE
CEO Connection , for which I serve as Chief Relationship Officer, just released the results of its May Mid-Market Index. MORE
As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. MORE
A lot of money has been spent on information technology in health care with little to show for it. It only takes 10 minutes of direct observation of a nurse in a hospital to understand care-delivery processes are not standardized and are dependent on individuals, not systems. Because few standardized processes exist in care delivery there are many possibilities for error. Most health systems in America have or are implementing the EHR. ilbusca/Getty Images. MORE
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For example, many hospitals are now engaged in making changes to improve their performance and the quality of care they provide. Change leaders need to take care of their physical health, invest in their personal life, and make sure there's a balance there. . By Guest Author Pamela Shaheen DrPH. Healthcare organizations seem to be particularly challenged in reinventing themselves when compared to other industries. . Why is that?
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That’s why cultures in health care organizations need to be life-giving in order to energize health care workers who give so much of themselves to their patients. In some health care-related fields, as many as one-third of employees leave their jobs each year. You can’t give what you don’t have.
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One of those was excessive health care costs. Health care is extremely expensive everywhere. But in the USA the health care system is twice as costly as other rich countries. Related: USA Health Care Spending 2013: $2.9 Decades ago W.
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In particular, the still-evolving field of behavioral economics provides opportunities for employers to use evidence-based strategies to improve the health of their workforce. Jesse is joined by Dr. Derek Yach from the Vitality Institute, to discuss the reasons for this health care gap – and what your company can do to engage your workforce for better health and productivity. Derek Yach has focused his career on advancing global health.
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The consensus is that health care costs are too high, and rising too rapidly. There is in fact a consensus out there. But the consensus evaporates with the question of how to fix it. One man who has thought a lot about this is Atul Gawande. Dr. Gawande is a surgeon, he teaches surgery at [.]. Randy's blog entries Atul Gawande The Checklist Manifesto The Cheesecake Factory
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News item #1 — Hospital health care personnel were not “ready” for the Ebola crisis to arrive. It’s sort of hard to miss the big news of the last few days. News item #2 — Peyton Manning threw for four touchdowns, and broke the all-time touchdown passing record. Both, pretty big news items. So, I […]. Randy''s blog entries
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CEO Connection , for which I serve as Chief Relationship Officer, just released the results of its May Mid-Market Index.
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FEBRUARY 27, 2010
As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system.
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FEBRUARY 27, 2010
As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system.
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I love student speeches. Not all of them… but enough to matter. In the last week, I’ve heard some pretty good speeches on the Ku Klux Klan, the Vietnam War, Watergate. (It’s It’s really fun to hear a speech from a student who knows nothing about her subject except from her own research. Watergate is ancient […]. Randy''s blog entries
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 21, 2013
All of the tactics used by the oil, beverage, and banking industries to influence lawmakers at every level of government were pulled straight from the cigarette makers’ playbook: Distract people from the real problem; generate fear; split communities with rhetoric, pitting one group against another; encourage people to doubt scientific conclusions; question whether there really […]. Randy''s blog entries
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Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. As medical professionals first, they do what it takes to provide the best care, even if that sometimes means ignoring or going around security policies (as 4% report).
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Democrats and Republicans have created a health care system in the USA over the last 40 years that “burns toast” at an alarming rate. As the symptoms of their health care system are displayed they call in people to blame for burning toast.
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GDP dedicated to health care as fertile ground for expansion. Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families. At its root, health care is a service that needs to be delivered to a customer. Health care is similar.
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This is especially true in health care, where people’s hopes and fears tend to get magnified quickly. Consider three issues that get a lot of attention: the use of medical records, the “human touch” in medical care, and the future of jobs in the industry. More and more people are turning to wearable health devices, for example. And 72% are fine with their health insurers having that information. (On Health Care’s New Frontier.
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MARCH 12, 2018
At Sanford Health, a $4.5 billion rural integrated health care system, we deliver care to over 2.5 All this data clearly represents a rich resource with the potential to improve care, but until recently was underutilized. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. With this access, academic partners are advancing their own research while providing real-world insights into care delivery.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 19, 2018
A lot of money has been spent on information technology in health care with little to show for it. It only takes 10 minutes of direct observation of a nurse in a hospital to understand care-delivery processes are not standardized and are dependent on individuals, not systems. Because few standardized processes exist in care delivery there are many possibilities for error. Most health systems in America have or are implementing the EHR. ilbusca/Getty Images.
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MARCH 2, 2018
Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. The Helix (Healthcare Innovation Exchange) Centre opened in 2014 to respond to increasing pressures on the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. To source ideas, it often runs two-day hack-a-thons on specific health care challenges.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 4, 2016
This shift has the potential to disrupt the alarming trajectory of rising health care costs at exactly the moment when aging Baby Boomers will be putting more pressure on the health care system. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has been around since 1984.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 23, 2015
If the health care industry followed suit, the impact on the quality and cost of care, the patient’s experience, and innovation could be enormous. The impact of open, standardized APIs in health care would be even more significant.
First Friday Book Synopsis
APRIL 23, 2011
I intentionally keep politics out of my posts on this blog as much as possible. It is becoming difficult – politics permeates every facet of life these days. But this one was too important to ignore. It comes from Paul Krugman’s New York Times column earler this week, Patients Are Not Consumers. Here’s the key [.]. Randy's blog entries church vs. faith community Kenneth Burke patient vs. consumer Paul Krugman Winston Churchill Words that Work
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 16, 2015
For all the hard work to improve coordination and collaboration in health care, most hospitals are still organized into silos based on clinical specialties — and communication among them is uneven at best. Leading Change in Health Care.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 28, 2015
In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 23, 2015
Early efforts to publish performance data about doctors and hospitals usually required a strong external force, such as pressure from a state department of health. This development may seem small, but if the trend grows, it will drive improvements in the quality of care. HBR STAFF.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 3, 2018
The conventional wisdom—that the best care is delivered in-person by experienced caregivers—may soon be overturned. Rising health care costs , a shortage of physicians , and a rapidly aging population are making the traditional model of care increasingly unsustainable. But new uses of virtual health and digital technologies may help the industry manage these challenges. health system over the next few years. Phil Marden/Getty Images.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 23, 2018
An announcement on January 24 didn’t get the large amount of attention it deserved: Apple and 13 prominent health systems, including prestigious centers like Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania, disclosed an agreement that would allow Apple to download onto its various devices the electronic health data of those systems’ patients — with patients’ permission, of course. health care system. Health Care’s New Frontier.
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NOVEMBER 10, 2016
policy and institutions is unclear, but their approach to health care reform will have profound impacts on the health and well-being of the American people and on the U.S. Trump’s stated goal is to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), but the details of his plan are still unknown. Turning a blind eye to the potential for such a reaction could undermine efforts to build an efficient, high-quality health care sector.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2017
Providing health care in rural regions presents unique challenges. And vast distance can hinder the dissemination of best practices and coordination of care. At Sanford Health, one of the largest rural health-care-delivery systems, we’ve tackled this challenge by leveraging an array of technologies to provide high-value care to a population of around 2 million, dispersed across 300,000 square miles in the Dakotas. Transforming Health Care.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 6, 2018
To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. He invented the world’s first portable drug infusion pump which, among other applications, has revolutionized diabetes care. Jamie Jones/Getty Images.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 8, 2018
Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Like banks, airlines, and retailers, health care providers will need to offer an easy, digital front-end experience to their customers. This isn’t just about building fancy new websites, but undertaking true care redesign: becoming adept at delivering high-quality, cost-effective virtual care through telehealth and digital tools.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 19, 2017
The new Republican tax bill, which the House passed this afternoon and the Senate is expected to approve tonight, is complex, but what it will mean for health in the United States is simple: less. It will mean less health insurance for individuals; less coverage for elderly and poor Americans; less revenue for doctors, hospitals, and myriad health care businesses; and, quite possibly, a less-healthy, less-productive workforce. Many will also lose health insurance.
Deming Institute
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). Its network of twenty-three hospitals and 160 clinics provides more than half of all health care delivered in the region.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
“Paying for value” is one of the most overused tropes in health care today. To those who pay the bills — employers, health plans, and even the government — value often means paying as little as possible for services.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 12, 2016
The starting point for achieving value in any health care system is to measure outcomes. Through regular interaction with our global network of value innovators, we at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement ( ICHOM ) have developed a 10-step implementation “blueprint” that any provider can follow. You need to have senior management that really understands what value-based health care (VBHC) is all about.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Some health care leaders view with trepidation the new, disruptive health care alliance formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase. If this trio can disrupt the United States’ health care system into consistently delivering high-value care, we will all owe them our gratitude. That’s the big takeaway of University of Utah Health’s The State of Value in U.S. Health Care survey. HBR STAFF.
Deming Institute
DECEMBER 1, 2016
process thinking systems thinking understanding variation book change culture evidence based management health care management management concepts management system organization as a system quality tools standard work standardization
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 19, 2015
Bundled payments — single payments that cover all the care for a patient’s medical condition or treatment over a specified timeframe — are increasingly being deployed to motivate the delivery of better patient outcomes at lower costs.
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