How does an industry survive—and how can our society expect healthcare costs to be reasonable—when hospitals do not know their costs of production or reasonableness of the bills they send to patients and insurance companies?
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Our Tower of Babel
Although this explains well why communication is so difficult among people from different countries, it fails to address the inability of our various healthcare information technology (HIT) systems to exchange patient data seamlessly.
Continue readingEvolving to Health 3.0
Organizations that will survive under the new realities of ACA recognize the power of healthcare information technology (HIT) to assist them in reworking their business processes and clinical workflows to achieve the goal of high quality, affordable care.
Continue readingThe Health Supply Chain
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.
Continue readingAmerican 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 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 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.
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