(From the American Hospital Association’s H&HN Daily, September 25, 2012) Doing more with less. Doing the most for the least. Seems like the biggest magic trick ever. It’s invisible, people don’t seem to even notice you’re doing it. You do it every day. And...
In Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing it Right For Half The Cost I lay out the five strategies that healthcare must adopt, and is adopting in various ways and places, to make healthcare better and cheaper at the same time. Strategy Five is “Rebuild Every Process.” It’s...
A hospital that spends more upfront on evidence-based design will soon reap the payback in better outcomes. It was some doctor show on cable: Nurse McCarthy bustles into the hospital room, says “Good morning!” brightly, and crosses the brilliantly polished linoleum...
We are entering the season of presidential politics, of bunting and cries of “What about the children?” and star-spangled appeals to full-throated patriotism. So here’s mine: Do you count yourself a patriot? Do you care about the future of this country? (And while we...
In 1980, health care in the United States took no more of a bite out of the economy than it did in any other developed country. Then we instituted cost controls. By 2000, U.S. health care cost twice as much as everyone else’s. By 2020 or 2025, we may be back to...
[This article first appeared in H&HN (Hospitals and Health Networks) Daily, January 24, 2012] 2012 and 2013 present a unique and compelling opportunity for health care executives to produce significant change. If we hope to be, as Buckminster Fuller said,...
