Provider organizations, for the first time, are now forced to choose between a good- or bad jobs strategy, with many leaders unaware of the available options.
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Category: Healthcare Policy
Getting Ahead
Cloud-based applications maintained by vendors offer significant advantages in cost of ownership by eliminating the cost of upgrades, providing immediate access to the latest versions of applications, and reducing the costs associated with maintaining hardware.
Continue reading‘Show Me the Money’ Revisited
To date, hospitals, EMR vendors, and the government struggle to demonstrate the value of EMRs in enhancing patient care and delivering cost savings.
Continue readingIt’s All About Jobs
When asked about the research that went into the design of the iPad, Jobs replied “None, it’s not the consumer’s job to know what they want.”
Continue readingKeynote Adddress at HIMSS 2010 Annual Conference
Our great country is on an unsustainable healthcare cost curve that threatens our ability to bounce back from the severe economic challenges we now face.
Continue readingFollowing Lance’s Lead – No Cheating
Haven’t we had enough of cheating? According to the NYTimes (Medical Papers by Ghostwriters Pushed Therapy, 8/5/09), medical journals published articles written by ghostwriters paid for by Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company, to promote the use of Wyeth’s hormone replacement therapy for women.
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