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Health care in America is in trouble. It’s in trouble for many reasons, but I tend to believe it’s all related to money. Although people outside the industry tend to believe that hospitals are making money hand over fist, the reality is that the majority of hospitals in this country are either losing money or [...]
By the time you see this post I’ll be on my way out of town to see my mother, grandmother, and my grandmother’s brother. My grandmother is in a nursing home, something I think I’ve talked about before. You know, I’ve been in health care more than 28 years now, and though this isn’t the [...]
Within the health care industry, lately there’s been more talk about quality. Most of the talk involves things such as clinical efficiency, getting people out of the hospital faster, and lowering the costs of care. Only on that last one do patients seem to agree. I’ve talked to a lot of them over the years, [...]
Marketing is a funny thing. We spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the word out about us through a lot of venues. Then we spend some time trying to show some of our expertise where we can, like on this blog. However, every once in awhile, if we’re paying [...]
When President Obama was running for the office of president, one of the things he kept talking about was the need for electronic medical records (EMR). When he was trying to push the health care bill, one of the things he kept talking about was electronic medical records. Obviously he wanted this to occur, and [...]
This won’t be a popular statement to the majority of people in the United States, but it’s not supposed to be. Folks, it’s always about race; plain and simple. Now, why am I making such a statement? What’s prompting this particular post and how does it pertain to what’s going on in this country? If [...]
I was reading HealthLeaders Magazine, where they were talking about all the different things some hospitals across the country are trying to do to make the hospital experience better for patients. Some of the things these hospitals are doing are pretty good, I must say, while others are more for the benefit of the hospital [...]
