Nimble Medicine
By Dave Chase In a piece for the New Yorker, Dr. Atul Gawande outlined how, early in the 1900s, more than forty per cent of household income went to paying for food and food production consumed roughly...
View ArticleDo You Believe Doctors Are Systems, My Friends?
By David Shaywitz, MD In the current issue of The New Yorker, surgeon Atul Gawande provocatively suggests that medicine needs to become more like The Cheesecake Factory – more standardized, better...
View ArticleWhy Everything You Know About EHR Design Is Probably Wrong
By Margalit Gur-Arie Every time someone publishes an article or a paper or a blog post that has anything remotely to do with Electronic Health Records (EHR), there is usually a flurry of reactions in...
View ArticleReally Big New Thing
By MIKE MIESEN “Will Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) work?” That question has been thrown around for years, serving as fodder for Twitter-fights, myriad health care blog posts, and hours of...
View ArticleThe Napsterization of Health Care
By Lisa Suennen Two weeks ago I had the good fortune to be invited back to the South by Southwest Conference (SXSW) to participate as a judge of a digital healthcare start-up competition. SXSW, which...
View ArticleDisruptive Innovation and the Affordable Care Act
By Ben Wanamaker This post highlights the findings of a paper released today by the Clayton Christensen Institute, “Seize the ACA: The Innovator’s Guide to the Affordable Care Act.” Since its passage...
View ArticleWhat Wall Street Can Teach Health Care About Targets and Measurement
By Ben Wanamaker and Devin Bean One thing the health care industry should admire about Wall Street capitalists is their ability to define their target and measure how well they are doing in achieving...
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