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Build a Care Team

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Dec 7, 2016 | Healthcare IT

With healthcare complexity increasing daily, traditional models of delivering care fail to offer a viable framework capable of delivering high quality care at a reasonable cost. The rapid and ever-changing medical knowledge makes It impossible for any healthcare...

Choosing the “Good Jobs” Strategy

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Nov 5, 2015 | Healthcare Policy

For more than half a century, provider organizations have had a free ride. Unlike other industries that faced rapid disruptions in their markets requiring constant adjustment to survive, healthcare has been fairly stable and predictable. As provider organizations...

Good Jobs or Bad Jobs

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Oct 13, 2015 | Archives

As labor approaches 60% of hospital costs, many organizations are looking to decrease these costs to meet budgetary targets. These organizations are at a crossroads. Do they follow the strategy path toward good jobs or bad jobs? Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT...

Patient Driven Staffing Levels

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Jul 20, 2015 | Archives

For more than 50 years, the Boston Ballet entertained audiences around the world with classical dance such as Swan Lake and the Nutcracker. As information technology advanced, the Boston Ballet deployed numerous systems to manage ticketing, payroll and personnel...

How to Effectively Choose and Assign Clinical Staff

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Nov 1, 2014 | Archives

On average, hospitals devote close to 60% of their budgets to labor costs with the large majority of those costs associated with nurse staffing. Until robots replace humans in the delivery of patient care, selection of the proper skill mix and number of professionals...