Imagine losing your home, your job, parts of your body or even your life due to an illness that could have been prevented. In too many cases, that’s the result of sepsis. Not only [...]
MACRA, MIPS, APMs, QPP…it certainly can be an alphabet soup! You have probably heard some of these acronyms before, but do you know what they mean for the future of healthcare? We [...]
Imagine one day, your brother was a transplant patient preparing for surgery. But a few short days, one missed diagnosis and two failed transplants later, he rejected his new liver[...]
Ask yourself this question: If you were having surgery tomorrow, you would not expect your surgical team members to be checking their smart phones for texts and sending emails in y[...]
In his well-known book The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker observed, “Effectiveness is a habit.” It is not a quality of itself, but rather the consistent and explicit use of a s[...]
Hospitals and health systems are being measured today as never before. The stakes have never been higher as an increasing portion of hospital revenue is tied to performance on a gr[...]
In my travels around the country meeting with healthcare leadership, I hear those words often. And the old chestnuts about taking one step at a time, eating the elephant one bite a[...]
The Kentucky Derby was front and center this past weekend. Many folks across the country spend weeks scrambling to pick the right hat for that annual event in Lexington, KY. Here’s[...]
It’s sad but true. Life has a 100% mortality rate. There’s no escaping that fact. In healthcare we do our best to prevent the preventable deaths and to treat symptoms to delay the [...]
Today, working in healthcare sometimes feels like trying to solve a mystery. We’re looking for clues, building the evidence base and trying to turn that evidence into action. And t[...]