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Why you should never use PowerPoint by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Stick with it to the end! (Click here if you cannot see the video.) Read on »

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems. by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy If the first chapter is any indication, Healthcare Kaizen, a forthcoming book by Mark Graban and Joseph Swartz, will quickly rise to the "must have" category for peopl ... Read on »

Peer pressure teaches germ theory? by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I post this abstract without comment. I welcome your observations, though, about what this might mean about the effectiveness of education of health care professional ... Read on »

Why would I stop laughing? by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Those of us in the United States missed " Dying Matters Awareness Week " in the United Kingdom (May 14-20). Of course, here in the US, we would have called it "Death Pane ... Read on »

A less rosy view of ACOs and global payments by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This post at Disease Management Care Blog brings back memories of concerns raised by Dr. Robert Galvin at a recent MA Health Data Consortium seminar, about the complexity ... Read on »

Tribute to teachers by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Two of our daughters' favorite elementary school teachers are retiring this year, and their school held a celebration in their honor. Stephanie Hoff, seen above wit ... Read on »

300 to 500 extra calories per day! by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In a post below , I wrote of my concern about the deterioration in physical conditioning of children ages 9 to 14. I have received a couple of expert responses I wou ... Read on »

Ohio marks stretch past 39 weeks by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Between 1990 and 2006, the rate of U.S. babies delivered before 39 weeks of gestation rose sharply, from 30.3 percent to 41.7 percent. Infants delivered before they ha ... Read on »

Writing off the public interest by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I'm starting to think there are not a lot of differences between the financial mechanisms used by managers of private equity companies that own hospitals and those used by ... Read on »

Zane: I remain deeply unsettled by wishful thinking by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As Massachusetts legislators consider whether the health care "market" works well without more state supervision, they would do well to read this opinion piece by Elle ... Read on »

No need to exaggerate by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The folks over at FierceHealthFinance are overly excited by a recent study produced by the Health Care Cost Institute. That study , you will recall, pointed that out that ... Read on »

Be well with BeWell by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Remember my story about Health Foo a few days ago , where I mentioned a new app being worked on by Tanzeem Choudhury? Well, it's live now. You can find it here . ... Read on »

Heal this broken body. Cut grass. by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Check out this post by Dr. Susan Shaw from the Saskatoon Health Region. It presents a compelling story, worth reading about the goals established by one of her patients. ... Read on »

Who decides how much doctors are paid? by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A friend once asked me to explain why primary care doctors, neurologists, nephrologists, and other “cognitive” specialists earn less than surgeons, GI doctors, and other ... Read on »

Terry Wise pulls people out of the darkness by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On Christmas day 2000, I didn't just peer over the edge of a rooftop. I jumped off, feet airborne with the cement blocks of depression shackled to my ankles. The fin ... Read on »

Spike Out Sepsis by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy You have only until June 1 to order the 2012 Spike Out Sepsis t-shirt. This is part of a unique 6-on-6 sand volleyball tournament designed to raise awareness and fu ... Read on »

Huffing and puffing by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I haven't wanted to write this piece because of its implications, but I have now received confirmation from a number of other observers. What I have been seeing in the la ... Read on »

On the nature of decision-making by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A colleague reminded me of this quote by Peter de Noronha The safest refuge when dealing with urgent, ticklish problems is sought in shirking responsibility, in gaining ... Read on »

Step aside, Blue by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy While I am usually not one to provoke intra-regional rivalries in health care, who can resist piling on in the age-old one between fans in Ann Arbor and Columbus? My ... Read on »

They served. We must, too. by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy They served in an era when it was easy to know whether a war was just. They lived in a time when a stint in the Army was a welcome break from the Great Depression ... Read on »

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