Have You Done Your Due Diligence? Please register for this informative webinar to be held on May 17, 2018 12:00 PM EDT at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3943907917088738305 Two key questions will be answered: 1. Who is a fiduciary and what are their responsibilities? 2. What factors may expose you or your company to preventable liability risks? At this point almost […]
Sydney Finkelstein made a name for himself as a management professor who focused his research on failure. In an earlier book, Why Smart Executives Fail (Portfolio 2004), he examined the traits of leaders and managers who seemed to have all the right stuff, but got things horribly wrong. But for the last six years Finkelstein, […]
By Dr. David C. Pate It’s been a full and eventful year on all levels, local to global and everything in between, in health care and in so many other areas of our economy and business activity. We’ve seen considerable change in government, in payer structures, on the regulatory front … I am hard-pressed to […]
Just MEDICINE. Let’s call it what it is. Simply Medicine. by trauma surgeon Dr. Rafael Grossmann ________ (Blank) is a term that we use to refer to a way of communication between parties in the healthcare dynamic. Patients, Doctors, Physician Assistants, Nurses, in fact, any medical provider can interact and engage with each other […]
by Phyllis Pittman, President and Founder of CMedEd . Before I started working in patient communications, I was volunteering in the emergency room at St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston. During my volunteering days, many of the patients I visited were unable to communicate because English was not their first language or their condition did not […]
Through time we have experienced technological advancement in healthcare all of which have worked in transforming general healthcare processes. More healthcare providers are adopting all kinds of new technology and that includes data storage and management. We, however, note that with every technological growth there is something to be concerned about and in this case […]
by Jennifer Holmes, Central Logic President & CEO Improving patient care across the entire continuum is Central Logic’s core mission and it’s my personal passion. Nine years ago, I lost my father too soon at the age of 69 due to lack of communication between his healthcare providers. His clinicians didn’t have the complete […]
Do you have a mentor? You know, someone who you can ask for advice on occasion, someone that might be able to help you navigate the political puzzles of corporate life? Today, more than ever before, companies are appointing mentors for junior staff and who’s to say that’s a bad idea? Except for one little […]
by Dan Munro, author of Casino Healthcare Full disclosure: I’ve never met Aetna’s CEO Mark Bertolini, but I did transcribe his keynote speech for a piece on Forbes in 2014. In fact, the general theme of Mark’s keynote that year was the“Creative Destruction of Healthcare.” I have no idea if Mark’s seen the Forbes […]
New Solution Is the First to Reliably Operationalize Care Coordination and Population Health Management Central Logic, the leading provider of transfer center and on-call scheduling technology solutions for healthcare systems, launches Patient Connect, a web-based technology that, for the first time will operationalize care coordination by providing comprehensive visibility to key data from inside and […]
Just because a boss is nice, doesn’t mean he or she is any good. A tough, demanding manager will push you to do your best work. by Dr. Sydney Finkelstein Everyone wants a nice boss. And if a nice boss is one who respects me and my work, challenges me to get better […]
By Dr. David C. Pate, CEO of St. Luke’s Health System On July 11, President Obama took the unusual step of writing about the Affordable Care Act for the Journal of the American Medical Association, outlining “progress to date and next steps.” Nearing the end of his second term in office, President Obama reflected on […]
Opioid abuse is a complex problem with tragic and staggering consequences. It has recently gained prominence because of federal and state initiatives, as well as increased coverage by the media. I write this post because I tried to make sense of the various reports I read, and realized that it may be necessary to take […]
by Mendel Zilberberg The U.S. Supreme Court may have opened the floodgates for whistleblower lawsuits based on its unanimous opinion in the whistleblower case of Universal Health Services. v. United States ex rel. Escobar, in which the Court found that the implied false certification theory can be a basis for liability under the False Claims […]
Black Box Enabled Surgical Suites? by Richard Corder, Partner at Wellesley Partners,
The IT security arena has been tempestuous of late, to say the least, as hackers continue to pose a serious threat to healthcare organizations, consumers and public-sector agencies. Because of how quickly technology has progressed in the past few years – as well as the rapidity of adoption among companies of all industries and sizes – […]
By Dr. David C. Pate, president and CEO of St. Luke’s Health System With the news that St. Luke’s Health System has been named one of the Top 15 Health Systems in the country for a third year in a row, I have reflected back on how we got here. It was not by accident. […]
What is value in today’s oncology market? This is a question dividing pharma, payers, providers, and patients. At a time when drug reimbursement is a continuously changing landscape, it is more important than ever to align all stakeholders on a common definition. Back for a 7th year, eyeforpharma Oncology Leadership Summit (June 16-17) brings together […]
