The pandemic of 2020 upended our lives and created a new normal for how we go about our daily lives. As we emerge from that time, what have we learned? How have we adapted? And …
Continue readingCategory: NtC Video Podcasts
NtC 13: Only Those Who Adapt and Change Survive
Healthcare is undoubtedly one of our most complex industries, with its many inputs and outputs and impact on patients, families, and the people caring for them. Twenty-first-century healthcare is our country’s most challenging industry, beset …
Continue readingNtC 12: The Healthcare IT Conundrum
Healthcare ranks as a high-knowledge and technology-intensive industry. The range of high knowledge and technology-intensive devices for healthcare diagnostics and treatments is immense and constantly growing. Similarly, software advances in data analysis, artificial intelligence, informatics, …
Continue readingNtC 11: You Say You Want a Revolution
When the Beatles released their song “Revolution”, the radical political left severely criticized it. John Lennon, the song’s author, sympathized with the need for change but rejected using violence to achieve those ends. Like Lennon, …
Continue readingNtC 10: A Platform to Leverage Revolutionary Healthcare IT
Let me start with what I define as revolutionary healthcare information technology. It offers clinicians, researchers, and administrators potent tools to drive the clinical and administrative processes to deliver high-quality, safe, accessible, and investment-responsible medical …
Continue readingNtC 9: Navigating the Modern-Day Hippocratic Code
In episode 3 of this series, I shared the pillars of a new, expanded Hippocratic Code updated for today’s information-driven healthcare. The Code includes four mission-critical tenets: Quality care and patient safety, care access, outcomes, …
Continue readingNtC 8: How Much is that PET Scan in the WIndow?
Anyone who has run a company knows that paying close attention to expenses is critical to the business’s long-term survival. Let’s take a coffee shop as an example. The owner must know the monthly rental …
Continue readingNtC 7: Isn’t It Really Just About the Outcome?
Ask any physician, and they will say that a positive outcome is, preferably, the successful treatment of a patient’s illness or the completion of the appropriate therapeutic intervention. A patient’s response will vary depending on …
Continue readingNtC 6: If You Want to Ensure Access, Focus on Capacity Management
While access to care is one of the key drivers of health equity, capacity management is the driver of access. Organizations that effectively manage capacity better serve patients. Resources are the centerpiece for capacity management. …
Continue readingNtC 5 – Quality and Safety: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Remember this old medical joke: the operation was successful, but the patient died? It has become a cliché that often characterizes business operations and military activities. The quip perfectly describes the relationship between quality and …
Continue reading