The Health Supply Chain model provides a broad, all-encompassing view of care delivery that links both administrative and clinical processes and workflows in the “manufacture” of patient care.
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American Autos Circa 1970 and Healthcare
With the rapid shift from volume-based reimbursement to value-based reimbursement, organizations must change the way they deliver healthcare, with Deming’s quality rules offering clues as to what needs to be done.
Continue readingThe Eyes Have It
Effectively leveraging new scorecards, representing the best in clinical business intelligence, requires a method to “capture the eyeballs” of the clinician in a way that influences behavior and modifies outcomes.
Continue readingNext Generation CDSS: Patient-Centered Workflow
Patient-centered workflow requires stringing together individual steps, linking processes, and bridging activities by multiple caregivers to create an effective orchestration of resources to enhance the health of the patient.
Continue readingSuper-Organism Focused Healthcare
Only recently have researchers viewed the human body as a super-organism, influenced as much by the genetics of the host as by the permanent bacterial residents.
Continue readingSensory Overload?
The key to achieving that harmony of technology is through sensors, devises that collect vast amounts of data from an almost infinite number of sources.
Continue readingBig Data Drives Big Change
The digital age is the age of big data where every piece of technology captures data available for later use. This digital “exhaust data,” is data created as a by-product of other activities.
Continue readingSay No to Paper
Going forward I will never allow anyone I know to be treated in a facility that bases its medical care on dangerous paper-based processes.
Continue readingWatson, Come Here I Need You
Watson’s success on Jeopardy! demonstrates the capabilities of computers to store and retrieve medical knowledge at the point of care, thereby freeing clinician minds from the unnecessary burden of recalling facts.
Continue readingSeeing Is Not Believing
As organizations work at deploying health information technology and deliver clinical transformation through redesigned workflows, they need to recognize the basis for many of the errors we, as human beings, make in our everyday lives.
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