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What needs to happen by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Dear Implementers of any Healthcare Reform,Kevin Kelly has advice for you. Pay heed:What would you do if your current offerings cost only one third what they cost today? They ... Read on »

Learn Something Every Day via PSFK by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Learn Something Every Day via PSFK Read on »

It is the hospital. by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Mark Hurst writes …:Matt’s story about his hospital visit is instructive on two levels. First, his experience mirrors what is said all too often about the hospita ... Read on »

"Patients bring us stories. We drop into the middle of patients’ stories and try to change the..." by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy “Patients bring us stories. We drop into the middle of patients’ stories and try to change the plot for the better. First we have to understand it, however. The fi ... Read on »

Solving Problems Today by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy John Halamka, the uber healthcare CIO, is experimenting with his calendar:The same thing can be applied to our administrative lives. Each day there are challenges created by c ... Read on »

Understandable: primary care visit times increase by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This study appearing in Archives of Internal Medicine (out last week) found that primary care physicians have increased the amount of time they spend with patients by about th ... Read on »

"The hell of it, for providers, and yes I mean you, hospital executives and physicians and... by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy “The hell of it, for providers, and yes I mean you, hospital executives and physicians and everyone, is that if you are stodgy and behind the times, you may get blind-si ... Read on »

Can your hospital say this about its bathrooms? Or anything?... by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Can your hospital say this about its bathrooms? Or anything? Gosh, being different in the right ways—more importantly being good at being different in the right ways&mda ... Read on »

Thank you veterans. by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Thank you veterans. Read on »

Texting health by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Consumerist:American researchers conducting a study overseas teamed up with banks to send text messages to consumers to remind them to save. There was a 16% increase in sa ... Read on »

What's the competition doing? by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This is, to a very large extent, the healthcare business model:Why do so many websites have the same shiny thing that users don’t want?Company D saw something shiny on C ... Read on »

Many chairmen unaware of hospital quality by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This is inexcusable:The journal Health Affairs will soon publish a survey of the chairmen of more than 700 hospitals. Its main message is that many hospitals are not even awar ... Read on »

Crowdsourced healthcare? by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Tim Leberecht writes about the experiment that is the world’s first crowdsourced advertising agency:It’s always good to be the first, and while crowdsourcing, the ... Read on »

Do you fear when you fly? There's an app to help that. by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Do you fear when you fly? There's an app to help that.: Safety numbers need to increase in order to enable healthcare to do the same. But a neat concept to address fear from ... Read on »

Be thankful for modern surgery techniques. by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Be thankful for modern surgery techniques. Read on »

"I likewise recall, and without nostalgic glow, the less technologically sophisticated but... by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy “I likewise recall, and without nostalgic glow, the less technologically sophisticated but generally more humane doctors of my childhood and youth—doctors with the ... Read on »

Don't do that... by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Bruce Buschel published the first half of his 100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do. It’s great reading (and insightful learning…). And while not unive ... Read on »

Show this chart to your executive team today as an early... by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Show this chart to your executive team today as an early Halloween scare.Bill Petti linked to the SEED article from where it comes. His commentary nails the issue:As more and ... Read on »

That popcorn bucket is huge. by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This article from divine caroline demonstrates just how hard the world has made portion control. The damage:Increased portion sizes give us more calories, encourage us to eat ... Read on »

The iPhone will save us all. Another example of a communication improvement leading to improved... by Drew W. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The iPhone will save us all. Another example of a communication improvement leading to improved care. Read on »

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