Month: March 2010
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Interactions with the health care system – a visit to the doctor’s office
I was doing some exercises Monday night and I tweaked my wrist during a moment when I lost my focus (and balance). After a night of discomfort and pain, I decided to try and see my doctor to rule out anything serious. I did some searching on the internet and found a good article titled…
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Checklists – the latest fad to hit health care?
I have a copy of Atul Gawande’s book “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right“. It’s next on my reading list once I’m finished with Clayton Christensen’s book “The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care“. Since I haven’t yet read Gawande’s book, I am not going to talk about the comment. However,…
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Visualizing health care expenditures around the world
Came across a great data visualization example from Visual Economics titled “health care costs around the world“. The data is presented in very interesting ways. What I found even more interesting was the lively debate and discussion in the comments. You should definitely check it out. The rest of the site presents other examples of…
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Tips for unleashing innovation
Came across a very interesting article with a list of 10 tips to encourage and foster innovation. Here is the list of 10 practices: Let the learning lead Learn to see Design for today Think in pictures Capture intangible value Leverage the limitations Master creative tension Run the numbers Make kaizen mandatory Keep it lean…
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Making sense of revenues and profits in health care
I read this post on the Health Beat titled “Advice to hospitals in a downturn: Market the high-margin service” and I’m trying to come to grips with it. Don’t get me wrong, the content itself was pretty much straight forward in that it provides advice on how to increase revenues. But, what I’m trying to…
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Dissertation defence broadcast live
I came across this blog post about a live-streamed dissertation defence. For those who don’t know, dissertation defences are usually closed-door meetings. At the PhD level, the candidate usually makes a presentation (usually about 20 minutes) summarizing his/her research to the voting members of the panel. Most schools require a minimum of three voting members…
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Health care of the future?
There was a very interesting series of posts at HBR Insight Center which focused on health care, specifically health care innovations. In the main post titled “Health Care of the Future“, the author presents a list of 10 innovations believed to have big impact. Checklists Behavioral Economics Patient Portals Payment Innovations Evidence-Based Decision Making Accountable…
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The “y” in GE Healthymagination
During the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, I noticed a series of advertisements being played repeatedly promoting GE Healthymagination. The ads themselves were fairly well done and seemed to do a good job of conveying the message that GE is serious about health care and about being an innovation leader. Each time I watched the ad, I…