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When good teams go wrong by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Please take a look over at Athenahealth's Leadership Forum : A new post about common lessons about dysfunctional teams and leaders from sewage treatment (really!), the IR ... Read on »

Options? Subprime wasn't enough for you? by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Do you have the same reaction as I when you read this New York Times article ? Excerpts Some of the brokerage firms that helped pique Americans' interest in stocks are ... Read on »

Closing the barn door after . . . by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The State House News reports that the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission "has chosen the proposed merger of the large Partners Healthcare System and with the smaller ... Read on »

What price is correct for transparency? by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As noted previously , the Massachusetts legislature has entrusted the handling of the all-payer claims database (APCD) to a new independent state agency, CHIA (Center for ... Read on »

The best deal in America by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy @HopkinsMedicine quality and safety leaders Peter Pronovost and Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb are offering a MOOC—a massive online open course--starting June 3. See here for ... Read on »

A+ for Canton-Potsdam Hospital by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy @TerryFairbanks, director of the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare , sends this story from the Daily Courier-Observer with a note, "Great story of how on ... Read on »

Emita's gift to her children by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In honor of the yarzheit (anniversity) of my mother's death, I am reprinting a post from March 14, 2007. The message remains important for all families, and I think s ... Read on »

Some kind of service by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Best (worst) hotel service story I have heard: My friend Ray is taking a nap in his room in the afternoon and has put up the "do not disturb" sign." The maid had ... Read on »

More pain, please? by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Have we gone overboard in hospitals in our desire to minimize pain? Several years ago, there was a lot of effort to require hospitals to inquire of patients where on the ... Read on »

Stupid and cruel, both by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy One of the signs of political sickness in America is the degree to which some Republican governors, apparently out of sheer spite for President Obama, have decided to be b ... Read on »

Dominance visualized by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy For those of you who don't believe me when I talk about the problems related to market dominance in health care, I refer you to a recent post by John McDonough, one of t ... Read on »

When public values compete by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy An intriguing story has developed in Kentucky. Several months ago, the UK's Kentucky Children's Hospital announced that it had suspended its pediatric cardiothoracic ... Read on »

Why it is called the Affordable Care Act? by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Sometimes when something is right in front of you, you don't see it. A friend who serves on a Boston hospital board writes Great cover story in the New York Times toda ... Read on »

"I Remember Better When I Paint" by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This event on May 29 (3:30-5:30) at the Metropolitan Museum in NY is worthwhile for any health care provider who encounters people with dementia and for family members o ... Read on »

Waterfalls>cowbells by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy We go back to infrastructure for a break from health care (although the two are intimately related in many ways.) Some of you will remember my story about the use of cowb ... Read on »

A continuing display of weak leadership by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I admire President Obama in many ways, but I think he does not understand one important element of leadership. He has repeated the following behavior: Something goes w ... Read on »

Delete email. Not email messages. Email altogether. by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On February 11, @lucienengelen (Lucien Engelen) announced to his world that he would stop reading and replying to email as of April 2. As he later noted After I previou ... Read on »

Apologies to CHIA and Commissioner Boros by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I was dramatically wrong in a recent blog post when I suggested that the MA Center for Health Information and Analysis had failed to make broadly available an all-pay ... Read on »

Natural Disaster Response on WIHI by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy May 16, 2013: Reliable Practices for Responding to Natural DisastersLessons from North Shore-LIJ and Hurricane Sandy (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET) ... Read on »

Big Blue pushes accessibility, with help from others by Paul L. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Back in the late 1970s, when I was Director of the Arkansas Department of Energy, the state disabilities commission ran an awareness event in which corporate and governmen ... Read on »

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