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Times are perilous, and they ain’t a-changin. As Europe focuses its attention on whether the Euro will become a collector’s item, and the Middle East eagerly awaits the chance to lower the amount it pays for air conditioning because of the surplus of electricity that will be available from all of Iran’s nuclear reactors, America [...]
The title of the book on the lap of the person sitting next to me was “Cost Justifying Usability”. My cynicism jumped immediately to Def-Con 4. Cost Justifying Usability. Did the author get his inspiration for the title at the Shopping-For-New-Ideas store? Now, before you laugh too hard, recall that many inane ideas make gobs of money, such [...]
I just returned from the Prada show in Milan. Not really — that was the opening line from a piece on NPR. Apparently the runaway hit on the runways a few years ago was high heels, with the emphasis on the notion of high. The following passage comes from the UK Telegraph: The girls looked like [...]
To read and complete this post, you may use the following tools; graph paper, compass, protractor, slide ruler, a number two pencil, and a bag of Gummy Bears from which to snack. The following problem was on the final exam in my 11th grade physics class. Let us give this a shot and then see if we [...]
What could we have done differently, is the question I hear from many of the healthcare executives with whom I speak about the productivity loss resulting from their EHR. My answer, nothing. I am willing to bet that in most cases your EHR was implemented correctly. I am just as willing to bet that the [...]
There is always a great deal of discussion about hospitals controlling costs. Articles on the subject seem to infer that the idea of controlling costs, should one elect to do so, dwell in the rarefied realm of innovation. Here is a dirty little secret—from the moment your hospital opened its doors the hospital has been [...]
I have spent time over the past few weeks speaking with healthcare executives to get their perspective on ACOs, also known as Attorneys and Consultants Opportunities. For the most part, people are in general agreement when it comes to describing the function of an ACO. So much for the good news. Where the process breaks [...]
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